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| » Pentagon supports troops using Chinese technology |
| American troops in Africa are utilizing the Apstar-7 satellite for their communication needs. The Apstar-7 is owned and managed by state-controlled China Satellite Communication Company’s subsidiary.... |
| 30 April 2013 |
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| » Government pressures companies to allow spying |
| Government and big companies clash regarding the issue of customer surveillance. The government is increasing pressure on communications and social media companies to find ways to comply with wiretapp... |
| 30 April 2013 |
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| » Photos in the UK are now commercially free for all |
| If you are one of the many who like sharing photos online on the most popular social media networks, you are affected by this new legislation that has been passed in the UK.... |
| 30 April 2013 |
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| » Direct 3rd party application updates not allowed according to Google Play |
| Google Play revises its terms of use to prevent mobile applications from direct 3rd party updates. Facebook is directly affected as its Android application has a silent update feature that does not go... |
| 29 April 2013 |
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| » White House sides with Privacy groups by offering to veto CISPA |
| With all the opposition the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the final nail was put to its coffin when the White House stated the intent to veto it if Senate passed it into law. ... |
| 29 April 2013 |
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| » Security Experts among others get free PR due to Boston Bombing |
| Security firms take the opportunity to present their answers on how to prevent bombings like the one done in Boston from ever happening again while others groups take advantage of a little PR.... |
| 26 April 2013 |
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| » Government censorship requests are rising, reports Google |
| Governments are censoring more and more online content. This is what the newest Google-released transparency report revealed. Governments all over the globe have made 26 percent more requests to remov... |
| 26 April 2013 |
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| » Proposed new legislation seeks to defend e- mail and cloud privacy |
| The US Senate passed a bill that requires a “probable-cause” warrant before granting access to e-mail and other private information stored in the cloud. Whether this bill will survive deliberations is... |
| 26 April 2013 |
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| » Supreme Court allows WikiLeaks Donations |
| Supreme Court of Iceland sideds with WikiLeaks saying it should be able to receive donations using the payment processor Visa Iceland. It warns that if the ruling is not upheld, the payment processor ... |
| 25 April 2013 |
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| » Online Targeted Ad Escalation Imminent |
| Online advertisers, web browsers, and site owners fighting over how personal consumer information is used to target ads. Each group has interests that shed light on future problems that the individual... |
| 25 April 2013 |
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| » Non-Hacker convicted of Hacking |
| David Nosal after a short two week trial was convicted by a law designed to prosecute hackers even though his crimes could not be considered as how traditional hacking is defined.... |
| 25 April 2013 |
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| » CISPA, A Double Edge Sword |
| With the new CISPA law in the US, the government can now use crowd-sourcing of cyber threat intelligence to pinpoint commonalities of cyber attacks.... |
| 24 April 2013 |
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| » Dow fluctuates because of Tweet |
| A group of hackers called Syrian Electronic Army caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to briefly drop 140 points with the use of false reports spread through a hacked Twitter account of the Associa... |
| 24 April 2013 |
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| » Twitter Plans to Beef up Security |
| Twitter is in the process of changing how users log into its service. It plans to add an additional authentication feature besides the current use of passwords. It is currently in the stage of interna... |
| 24 April 2013 |
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| » UK businesses frequent target of hackers |
| A 2013 government research report shows that in the past year, more than 80 percent of businesses in the UK have suffered breaches in cyber security. Big businesses are having the worse of it since th... |
| 23 April 2013 |
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| » Routers Requiring Attention |
| A majority of popular router models are vulnerable to exploits and are quick to spot by hackers within a network. A security firm went out to verify and test just how vulnerable some models of routers... |
| 23 April 2013 |
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| » NSA tests Military Hacking Prowess |
| The National Security Agency held a four day hacking contest which it dubbed the 13th Annual Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX). The US Air Force Academy dominated the competition continuing its second year... |
| 23 April 2013 |
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| » A Picturesque but Silent Cyber war |
| Recently, there have been many emergency security patches being released as well as companies being targeted by cyber attacks. Efforts in company espionage continue to escalate regardless of the opera... |
| 22 April 2013 |
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| » The Secret of Siri Revealed |
| After the continuous prodding, Apple finally clarifies that Siri kept an archive of inquiries from its users for two whole years to help improve its services.... |
| 22 April 2013 |
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