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Video: Hackers for hire
Hackers are the 21st century warriors who worry many. As everything we use becomes increasingly connected, so their opportunities to hack, divert or destroy increase. NATO …
Online privacy: How did we get here?
As technology has evolved over the past two centuries, so have our expectations about privacy. This new digital world allows us to connect with each other with increasing …
US SEC data leak shows lax data access practices
When a former employee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission left the organization for a job with another federal agency, he “inadvertently and unknowingly” …
Feds to web firms: Hand over encryption keys and user passwords
The US government and its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have apparently been trying to get Internet firms to hand over both their users’ account passwords …
Cyber security is central to long-term economic growth
An increase in attacks on corporate websites should focus attention on the actions businesses should take to reduce the impact of cybercrime. The word of caution comes in the …
US lawmakers shoot down legislation for limiting NSA spying
An amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 that would curtail funding for NSA’s collection of electronic communication data in cases where the …
DHS to set up “cybersecurity shop” for govt agencies
The US Department of Homeland Security has been tasked with setting up a centralized shopping hub to which all the other US federal, state and local agencies us to get the …
Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin exposed
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged man and his company with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin, a virtual currency traded on online exchanges …
72% can’t securely manage multiple computing environments
AppSense and CTOVision announced the results of a survey that included responses from 245 executives, technologists and contractors – across the defense, intelligence …
Huawei’s Chinese connection continues to be source of suspicion
A day after it was announced that the UK government will investigate the employees at the Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Center located in Banbury, Oxfordshire, …
Many join EFF to sue NSA over illegal surveillance
Nineteen organizations including gun ownership advocates, and a broad coalition of membership and political advocacy organizations filed suit against the NSA for violating …
Microsoft helped NSA get around its encryption
It has been a bad month for US Internet giants, but things got even worse for Microsoft as the latest batch of NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the company …