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NSA reports detail decade’s worth of privacy violations
The National Security Agency has quietly released more than a decade of reports detailing surveillance activities that potentially violated U.S. citizens’ privacy rights. Covering …
Jail term for Silk Road bitcoin deals
Bitcoin trader Charlie Shrem has been sentenced to two years in jail for indirectly helping people swap cash for bitcoins on the Silk Road …
Finland Abolishes Copyright Levies On Digital Devices
As we’ve noted before, copyright levies — effectively a tax on blank storage media — are becoming ever-more anachronistic and unworkable. So it’s good …
Verizon’s New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA
Verizon is the latest big company to enter the post-Snowden market for secure communication, and it’s doing so with an encryption standard that comes …
Nuke Remark Stirred Hack on Sands Casinos That Foreshadowed Sony
Most gamblers were still asleep, and the gondoliers had yet to pole their way down the ersatz canal in front of the Venetian casino …
N.C. hospital patient info accessible via internet for longer than two years
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in North Carolina is notifying about 25,000 patients that their personal information – including Social Security numbers – was accessible via the …
How impoverished North Korea built elite ‘secret war’ hacker unit
Despite its poverty and isolation, North Korea has poured resources into a sophisticated cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121, defectors from the secretive state said …
Emergency call system for all new cars by 2018
An emergency call system dubbed eCall will be installed in all new cars from March 2018 under an agreement reached at the European Parliament. …
What Happens When Spies Can Eavesdrop on Any Conversation?
Imagine having access to the all of the world’s recorded conversations, videos that people have posted to YouTube, in addition to chatter collected by …
Sony looks for possible N. Korea link in hacking incident -report
Sony Pictures Entertainment is investigating to determine if hackers working on behalf of North Korea might be responsible for a cyber attack that knocked …
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