Bush advisor: Hastings crash ‘consistent with a car cyberattack’
A former cybersecurity advisor to President George W. Bush says a sophisticated computer hack could have been the cause of the automobile accident that claimed the life of journalist Michael Hastings...
View ArticleNSA masqueraded as Google to spy on web users – report
The NSA used ‘man in the middle’ hack attacks to impersonate Google and fool web users, leaks have revealed. The technique circumvents encryption by redirecting users to a copycat site which relays all...
View ArticleGCHQ and NSA intercepted Yahoo users’ private photographs
British and American surveillance agencies teamed up to develop a system that collected millions of images from the webcams of unsuspecting and innocent internet users, new leaked documents reveal....
View ArticleOver 110k Facebook users infected by porn-disguised Trojan
More than 110,000 Facebook users accidentally installed malicious software over a recent two-day period, a security researcher says, allowing their computers to become infected with a dangerous...
View ArticleIran nuclear talks venues hit by $10mn ‘state-sponsored’ virus – Kaspersky to RT
The venues of Iranian nuclear talks were targeted by sophisticated spyware, which costs “at least $10 million” and was likely “state-sponsored,” the CEO Kaspersky Lab exclusively told RT. He said his...
View ArticleE-pocalypse now: Airline, stock exchange hit by computer glitches
United Airlines was writing boarding passes by hand before stopping all flights for three hours. Then the New York Stock Exchange halted all trades, citing a mysterious “technical glitch.” It wasn’t a...
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