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America’s Surveillance State: Docu-series exposes NSA’s long reach
A six-part documentary showing how US intelligence agencies have penetrated all spheres of public – and private – life with their unchecked activities, enabled …
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 …
‘Untexting’: New app allows remote removal of text, photos
Drunken incoherence or unfortunate jokes won’t be a cause for regrets for iPhone users anymore, with the emergence of a new app that allows …
Hacker steals fingerprint from photo, suggests politicians wear gloves in public
A German computer hacker has demonstrated how easy it is to foil biometric fingerprint security by using nothing but commercial software and a couple …
German govt denies Merkel staffer’s laptop infected by US/UK malware
The German government has denied reports a laptop belonging to a top Merkel aide was infected with the highly-sophisticated Regin virus – malware believed …
Is Britain backing N. Korean hackers? Pyongyang students win £28K UK cyber security bursaries
A UK university has funded two North Korean students’ studies in cyber security, it is alleged. The hermit state has developed a cyber-assault strategy …
US to auction off bitcoins worth $18.5mn seized from Silk Road
The US Marshals Service is getting ready to auction 50,000 Bitcoins worth about $18.5 million, in the biggest auction of Bitcoin in its history, …
YouTube unveils paid, ad-free music subscription service
YouTube has officially entered the music business upon announcement this week that the Google-owned video sharing site will soon launch a paid service that …
Facebook will ‘share’ Americans’ political views with Buzzfeed, ABC News
The world’s largest social network has closed a deal to provide aggregated data about Americans’ political views to website Buzzfeed and ABC News, for …
Watch your attachments: Microsoft Office bug lets hackers take over computers
A dangerous new security vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft’s Office software, threatening to hijack users of virtually every existing version of Windows. The …
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