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UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack
Mar 26, 2017 (AFP)
The British government said Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, as it revealed that the ser...
Twitter suspends more accounts linked to 'terrorism'
Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)
Twitter said Tuesday it suspended 376,890 accounts in the second half of 2016 for "promotion of terrorism," an increase of 60 percent over the prior six-month p...
Hacked websites on the rise: Google
Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)
Google painted a bleak picture of cybersecurity trends Monday, saying the number of websites hacked rose 32 percent last year, with little relief in sight. "We ...
Secrets from smart devices find path to legal system
Mar 19, 2017 (AFP)
An Ohio man claimed he was forced into a hasty window escape when his house caught fire last year. His pacemaker data obtained by police showed otherwise, and h...
China blocks Pinterest: censorship watchdogs
Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)
Image-curation website Pinterest has become the latest social media service blocked in China, checks on censorship monitoring websites indicated Friday. Accordi...
Russia runs up cyber score against US with Yahoo, election hacks
Mar 16, 2017 (AFP)
US charges that Russia's FSB security service was behind the hacking of Yahoo underscored a worrisome run of successes in Moscow's cyber-efforts against its lon...
US charges two Russian spies in massive Yahoo cyberattack
Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)
Two Russian intelligence agents and a duo of hackers were indicted Wednesday over a data breach that compromised 500 million Yahoo accounts in one of the larges...
System being developed restore power after cyber-attack
Mar 15, 2017 (UPI)
BAE Systems is to develop technology for the U.S. military to quickly restore power to the U.S. electrical grid in case of failure due to cyber-attack, the comp...
Russian woman pardoned by Putin over text message freed
Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)
A Russian woman pardoned by President Vladimir Putin after she was sentenced to seven years in jail for treason over a text message about movements of military ...
Beijing demands US 'stop cyberattacks' after CIA hacking report
Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)
China on Thursday demanded the US "stop its cyberattacks" after Wikileaks released a trove of documents which they said exposed the CIA's hacking operations. Ac...
Assange says leaks show CIA's 'devastating incompetence'
Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets and said he would work wit...
CIA blasts WikiLeaks for publishing secret documents
Mar 09, 2017 (AFP)
The Central Intelligence Agency on Wednesday accused WikiLeaks of endangering Americans, helping US rivals and hampering the fight against terror threats by rel...
Tech sector scrambles after CIA hacking allegations
Mar 08, 2017 (AFP)
The tech sector was scrambling to understand the implications of an alleged broad CIA hacking arsenal, capable of spying on phones and other connected devices. ...
The Darknet protects itself by being more robust against attacks
Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)
The Darknet is a part of the internet that people can access and use anonymously. This privacy and the ability to work away from prying eyes means that the netw...
Beijing pushes 'China solution' for governing web
Mar 02, 2017 (AFP)
Beijing said Thursday it will push a "China solution" to global cyber governance after releasing its first strategy paper outlining a vision of the web where in...
WSU mathematician breaks down how to defend against quantum computing attacks
Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)
The encryption codes that safeguard internet data today won't be secure forever. Future quantum computers may have the processing power and algorithms to crack ...
A computer's LED light can smuggle out data from the hard drive
Feb 22, 2017 (UPI)
As experiments showed, a computer's LED light could be used to smuggle out data from the hard drive to a remote receiver with cameras or light sensors, like a d...
Northrop Grumman, PGZ to deepen industrial cooperation
Feb 21, 2017 (UPI)
Northrop Grumman and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, Poland's state-owned enterprise, announced plans to collaborate on future defense projects. The prospective partn...
Tech tools gain traction amid Trump war on leaks
Feb 19, 2017 (AFP)
As President Donald Trump warns of a crackdown on US government leaks to media, interest is growing in technology tools that allow sources to share information ...
Cyber warriors see politics muddying security efforts
Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)
President Donald Trump has vowed to improve cyber attack defense, but security experts meeting this week say a fractious domestic and international political la...
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