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250,000 Twitter accounts compromised in sophisticated cyber attack
Twitter has become the latest target of a sophisticated cyber attack, with around 250,000 accounts exposed. The breach appears to be the latest in a string of attacks on news content sites that’s being...
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Pentagon creates 13 offensive cyber teams for worldwide attacks
National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander. (AFP Photo / Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla) The head of the United States Cyber Command says the US is developing 40 new teams of cyber-agents...
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US plans to allow spy agencies to monitor every citizen’s finances – report
Reuters / Heinz-Peter Bader Washington is reportedly considering opening all US financial records to national intelligence agencies in order to prevent future crimes. Only the FBI has had unlimited...
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‘Net is closing in on cybercriminals’ – Kaspersky Lab stands by INTERPOL
Yevgeny Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab.(RIA Novosti / Sergey Guneev) With Russia’s leading information security company Kaspersky Lab’s onboard to provide Interpol intelligence on...
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LulzSec hackers handed down prison terms, suspended sentence
Ryan Ackroyd (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth) Members of the British LulzSec hacking group were sentenced for a series of global cyber-attacks in 2011. Two of the hacktivists have received prison terms, one...
View ArticleNSA leaker Snowden stops over in Moscow en route to ‘third country’ with...
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has stayed overnight at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. The former CIA contractor, who left Hong Kong in a bid to elude extradition to the US on espionage charges, is on...
View ArticleUS asks Moscow to ‘look at all options available’ to expel Snowden
Washington says it expects the Russian government to ‘look at all options available’ to expel Edward Snowden to the US to face espionage charges. That’s after the White House expressed ‘disappointment’...
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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...
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Iran 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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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...
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Iran 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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