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Lenovo Shipping PCs with Pre-Installed ‘Superfish Malware’ that Kills HTTPS
One of the most popular computer manufacturers Lenovo is being criticized for selling laptops pre-installed with invasive marketing software, or malware that, experts say, …
The NSA’s Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago
News broke earlier this week about the NSA’s “most sophisticated” malware yet: An undetectable backdoor that can filter information to and from a hard …
Ransomware delivered via fake Chrome and Facebook emails, tied to PayPal phishing
Researchers with Trend Micro are seeing upgraded CTB-Locker ransomware being delivered in fake Google Chrome and Facebook emails as part of an attack that …
64% of reporters say Feds spying on their email, calls, online searches
In a survey of investigative reporters that makes Richard Nixon’s enemies list look like child’s play, nearly seven in 10 said they believe that …
Female jihadist geo-tracked from Canada to ISIS frontline
A woman from Canada, displaying staunch support to jihadists, has been tracked all the way from Toronto to the ISIS stronghold in Syria via …
Privacy is dead, Harvard professors tell Davos forum
Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that …
Google discloses three severe vulnerabilities in Apple OS X
Google’s Project Zero security team revealed the existence this week of three vulnerabilities with high severity that have yet to be fixed in Apple’s …
How Secure Is Android if Google Won’t Patch?
Google’s Android mobile operating system takes a lot of criticism from security researchers for various security flaws and weaknesses. This week, Rapid7 security researcher …
How a team of social media experts is able to keep track of the UK jihadis
Another Briton had died in Syria, and back in London investigators were busy “scraping” through his online peer network for clues about fellow Islamic …
50 terabytes! Snowden leak reveals massive size of F-35 blueprints hack by China
The reported theft by Chinese hackers of blueprints for the US’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter amounted to 50 terabytes of classified information, documents leaked …
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