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Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren’t Anonymous After All
White hat hacker Ben Caudill is halfway through his sandwich when he casually reaches over to his iPhone, swipes the screen a few times, …
Records of up to 25,000 Homeland Security staff hacked in cyber-attack
The internal records of as many as 25,000 employees of America’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were exposed during a recent computer hack at …
Is Tor’s Anonymous Internet Still Secure?
Browsing the Web with The Onion Router, or Tor, is supposed to make you anonymous. Many of the encryption algorithms used by this popular …
US Government Is Paying To Undermine Internet Security, Not To Fix It
The Heartbleed computer security bug is many things: a catastrophic tech failure, an open invitation to criminal hackers and yet another reason to upgrade …
Brazil passes ‘internet constitution’ ahead of global conference on web future
Ahead of a two-day Net Mundial international conference in Sao Paulo on the future of the Internet, Brazil’s Senate has unanimously adopted a bill …
How to Save the Net: Break Up the NSA
By treating the Internet as a giant surveillance platform, the NSA has betrayed the Internet and the world. It has subverted the products, protocols, …
Ask.fm’s new owners vow to crack down on bullying or shut the site
The new owners of Ask.fm, the social network implicated in the suicide of 14-year-old Hannah Smith in summer 2013, have sworn to end bullying …
Hundreds of police staff investigated over use of Facebook and Twitter
Hundreds of police employees have been investigated for breaching social media guidelines at forces across England and Wales during a five-year period. Police officers …
Why did an offensive Greggs logo show up in Google’s web search?
Greggs fell afoul of the Google algorithm on Tuesday when an alternative logo popped up to anyone searching for the company. Instead of the …
White House concedes privacy protections lacking in big data report
The White House published a long-awaited report on the collection of big data Thursday and, while it mentioned the positive side of data collection, …
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