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Your Data Gets Lost Or Stolen Online Frequently. Do You Even Care?
2013 was filled with even more large service providers, government departments and enterprises getting hacked or otherwise loosing your data. Your data was likely lost on multiple occasions just from the breaches in the news, let alone the ones that … Continue reading
The NSA Will Replace Most of Their Potential Snowdens with Machines
The NSA will eliminate 90 percent of the system administrators who maintain the agency’s networks, according to the agency’s director Keith Alexander. Speaking on Thursday to a cybersecurity conference, the NSA chief said that most of the current work done … Continue reading
NSA Project XKeyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet
Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called XKeyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet – from chat sessions to email to browsing habits. The system … Continue reading
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. he U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two … Continue reading
Smile! Hackers Can Silently Access Your Webcam Right Through The Browser (Again)
You know those people who put tape over their laptop’s webcam to keep digital peeping toms at bay? They’re not crazy. A new proof of concept is making the rounds today that demonstrates how a hacker can snap pics off … Continue reading
Why Two-Factor Authentication Won’t Stop The Hacking Crisis
As high profile hacks continue to make news, “two-factor authentication” is becoming a household term. This year alone, Apple, Microsoft, and Evernote have rolled it out to users, and two weeks ago Wired reported that Twitter is developing a two-factor … Continue reading
It’s not just about China and America—smaller countries want to wage cyberwar too
America’s Department of Defense yesterday released its annual report on China’s military capabilities (pdf). The report includes “electronic warfare” and “information dominance” as part of a larger campaign it says is an “essential element, if not a fundamental prerequisite” of … Continue reading
The worst possible cybersecurity breaches could be far worse than you imagined
The cyber-ruffians who briefly tanked the stock market recently by faking a news tweet about an attack at the White House showed how much damage can be done with a few well-placed keystrokes. Those who hacked into a Department of … Continue reading
Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets nuclear weapons researchers (Updated)
Attackers exploited a previously unknown and currently unpatched security bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser to surreptitiously install malware on the computers of federal government workers involved in nuclear weapons research, researchers said Friday. The attack code appears to have … Continue reading
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