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NYT, Twitter, HuffPo sites disrupted by Syrian hacker group

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army have managed to hijack, deface and / or make unavailable the websites of The New York Times, Huffington Post UK and one of Twitter …

G-20 themed emails deliver spying malware to EU, Canadian officials

The topic of the G-20 summit that is scheduled to be held in Russia next month is being misused by multiple cyber espionage groups some of which have been tracked to China, …

Open source encrypted email service reaches crowdfounding goal

Mailpile, the open-source web-mail client with user-friendly encryption whose developers have been asking for funding on Indiegogo, has surpassed its $100,000 goal three weeks …

How did Snowden steal the NSA documents and cover his tracks?

Many things have been unveiled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, but the question of how he managed to extract them from the agency’s internal …

Poorly redacted court filing reveals Google contested NSL gag order

A court filing that has been improperly redacted and has recently been made public by the US Department of Justice shows that Google asked a US court to remove the gag order …

Tech companies received millions for PRISM compliance costs

The NSA reimbursed the costs that Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo incurred for having to meet new certification demands following a FISC ruling about the …

Largest DDoS attack ever disrupts China’s Internet

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which maintains the registry for the .cn, China’s country code top-level domain, has notified the public that two …

Leaked info of Federal Reserve employees was stolen during earlier breach

Hacker collective Anonymous has apparently leaked a file which supposedly contains personal details of every employee of the US Federal Reserve Bank – names, job titles, …

NSA spied on UN officials after cracking encryption on UN teleconferencing system

The NSA has actively spied on United Nations’ officials and personnel after managing to compromise the encryption of the organization’s internal video conferencing …

CyanogenMod announces secure phone locating, remote wiping service

The CyanogenMod team has announced a new service that allows users to locate their lost phones or securely wipe their device (including the contents of the SD card) in case it …

Windows 8 shouldn’t be used on government computers, say IT experts

Internal documents of the German Ministry of Economic Affairs perused by a reporter of news outlet Zeit Online show (via Google Translate) that IT professionals working for …

Popular Windows downloader has secret DDoS capability

Unbeknownst to its users and perhaps even to its developers, the popular Windows download manager Orbit Downloader has been outfitted with a DDoS component. The Orbit …

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