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Hackers sweet-talked their way into the CIA director’s email account
The hackers who found their way into CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account didn’t use sophisticated coding skills. They just wheedled their way …
Blue bird flu: Social networks addiction is ‘chronic disease,’ psychiatrists say
Constantly checking your Facebook and Twitter accounts? Internet addiction has long been disputed as one of the mental disorders of our age – now …
US will use cyberattacks to defend against threats
The US Defense Department is set to announce a new strategy to combat cyberthreats from other countries, according to a report. US Defense Secretary …
Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware
In late 2013, an A.T.M. in Kiev started dispensing cash at seemingly random times of day. No one had put in a card or …
Russian Censorship: Tor, Anonymous VPNs Could Be Target Of Next Crackdown, Kremlin Warns
The 200,000 or so Russian Internet users who have signed up with Tor since Vladimir Putin regained the country’s presidency in 2012 might soon …
Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and …
Parents discover children’s Facebook photos on Russian paedophile website
British parents are distraught after discovering photos of their children have been taken from social media and posted on a Russian website used by …
U.S. accounts for most Mac OS X attacks and websites seeded with malware
This year was a tough one for U.S. Apple users and U.S.-run websites, according to Kaspersky Lab’s year-in-review blog post. U.S. Apple users accounted …
Snowden receives Swedish ‘alternative Nobel Prize’ via video from Moscow
Edward Snowden has received the Right Livelihood Award, a Swedish-based alternative to the Nobel Prize, for revealing state surveillance which violated basic democratic and …
Quantum leap forward: China to launch world’s longest, ‘hack-proof’ network by 2016
China is completing the project of the planet’s longest, 2,000-kilometer quantum communication network from Beijing to Shanghai. The network is considered “unhackable” and is …
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