A Digital Trail Of Evidence Linked The NYT Hack To China
By now just about everyone knows that hackers from China attacked The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The obvious question is how they know that.Grady Summers of Mandiant, a cyber security...
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Mystery Of Immense Barcodes Painted Across American Landscape Explained
Just the words 'barcodes' or 'QR codes' inspire a certain paranoia among some people. Their uses are many, but until the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) published a recent report, not many...
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China Has Found A Brutally Simple Way To Steal Corporate Secrets
The Chinese army appears to be conducting cyberhacking and espionage against large U.S. corporations, according to an extensive report from computer security firm Mandiant.The report even identifies...
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America Is Basically Helpless Against The Chinese Hackers
Chinese army hackers have systematically stolen secrets from U.S. corporations for at least seven years, according to an extensive report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant.This aggressive action...
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China May Have Intended To Get Caught In The New York Times Hacking Scandal
Earlier this week, Mandiant, a company hired by The New York Times to track down hackers that invaded the paper's database, unleashed a report blaming China for the invasion.The document went on to...
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There's A Simple Way To Protect Against Chinese Hackers
There's a pretty simple way to keep your trade secrets secret from China's army of clever hackers: pause, breathe, and hover your mouse pointer over that email from a coworker.Cybersecurity firm...
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Organized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American Infrastructure
CHINESE hackers may get all the notoriety, but their cyber-security exploits against American targets are chickenfeed compared with the damage done by organised crime. This past week, a large...
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Virginia Man Caught Posing As CIA Agent, Recruiting People To Attempt Bank...
A Virginia man is accused of orchestrating at least three attempted bank robberies while posing as a federal agent named "Theo,"Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg reports.Prosecutors say that Joshua Brady,...
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INTELLIGENCE CHIEF: Here's What PRISM Is
Amidst continued outrage over an expansive NSA surveillance program called PRISM— first reported by The Guardian and The Washington Post — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has responded...
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The Original NSA Whistleblower Says The Government Is Lying About Not...
It's hard to fathom many of the shocking claims from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden of vast government surveillance — such as the notion that the agency constantly intercepts millions of phone calls...
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Report: China Now Has The World's Fastest Supercomputer
A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second.Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by...
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Wireless Companies Ranked By How Much They Charge The NSA For Tapping Your...
Verizon has a nice little business going in wiretaps. It charges the federal government $775 to tap a customer's phone and then $500 a month after that to maintain it, making it the most expensive of...
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Japan Accidentally Leaks Emails And Sensitive Internal Communications
As we learned today from Edward Snowden's preferred encryption email service, Lavabit, security is no good "unless you actually use it."Cue the Japanese government, which set up a Google shared group...
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REPORT: The Federal Government Wants To Know Your Account Passwords
The federal government has made legal requests to more than one major internet company for the passwords to users' accounts, according to CNET.The report is frustratingly thin on details.But it...
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Obama's 'Independent' Review Of Mass Spying Is Destined For Failure
In the wake of seemingly endless leaks from ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, President Obama's attempt to manage the political fallout seems destined to fail.On Friday, Obama announced that he would...
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Wikileaks Just Released A Massive 'Insurance' File That No One Can Open
Anti-secrecy organization Wikileaks just released a treasure trove of files, that at least for now, you can't read.The group, which has been assisting ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden after he leaked...
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Trying To Hide Online Just Puts You On The Government Radar
If you want to maintain your privacy online, it seems the only way to do it these days is to turn off your computer.All of the big tech companies are bound by the Patriot Act and receive National...
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Hacker Reveals How Devastating A Cyberattack On The Stock Market Could Be
Of all the horrifying scenarios that hackers could pull off — from launching nukes to spoofing air traffic control— the one that poses the biggest risk for Wall Street would be a cyber attack on equity...
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REPORT: Millions Of Android Users Vulnerable To Security Breaches
Millions of Android smartphone users are susceptible to security vulnerabilities such as viruses and malware, according to an internal bulletin prepared by the Department of Homeland Security and the...
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DOCUMENTS: NSA Has 'A 100% Success Rate' Putting Spyware On iPhones
All Apple devices have been successfully infected by the NSA with spyware, according to new documents published by Der Speigel, the German magazine.We first saw the story on The Daily Dot, and it is...
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