CYBER WARS

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New coalition forms to end mass US surveillance
Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)
Activist groups on Wednesday unveiled a new coalition aimed at repealing the law authorizing mass surveillance by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. ...
White House says classified systems not hacked
Apr 07, 2015 (AFP)
US officials insisted Tuesday that a cyber attack late last year did not compromise White House classified systems, but refused to confirm reports Russia was be...
S.Korea army general assumes cyber-security post
Apr 03, 2015 (AFP)
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Friday appointed an army general to the new post of national cyber-security tsar, tasked with defending against North Ko...
With supporters' help, Chelsea Manning starts tweeting
Apr 03, 2015 (AFP)
Chelsea Manning, the US soldier serving a 35-year prison sentence for passing a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks, started posting on Twitter on Friday, wi...
Google says Android malware cut in half
Apr 02, 2015 (AFP)
Google said Thursday that malware infections on Android devices have been cut in half in the past year following security upgrades for the mobile platform. In a...
China blasts Google security move as 'unacceptable'
Apr 02, 2015 (AFP)
A Chinese cyberspace bureau on Thursday denounced Google for deciding not to recognise the agency's authority after a Beijing-linked security breach, calling th...
Obama unveils sactions program to fight cyberattacks
Apr 01, 2015 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered a new sanctions program that could block assets of US and foreign hackers and of companies that seek to profit from ...
S. Korea creates cyber-security post to counter North's threat
Mar 31, 2015 (AFP)
Concerned by the growing threat of cyber-attacks from North Korea, South Korea's cabinet on Tuesday approved the creation of a new presidential post handling cy...
Raytheon, Estonia collaborate on cyber-security
Mar 31, 2015 (UPI)
Long-term collaboration on cyber-security solutions is to be jointly explored by Raytheon and the Ministry of Defense of Estonia. The collaborative arrangement ...
China suspected as software site GitHub hit by attack
Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)
The software collaboration website GitHub said Monday it was fighting off a cyber attack since late last week, and security analysts said the effort appeared to...
Spy agencies in 'technology arms race', says British chief
Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)
Spy agencies are caught in a "technology arms race" with terrorists and criminals, the new head of Britain's MI6 said on Monday in his first public comments sin...
Beijing behind Internet security violation: group
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
China's cyberspace administration is "complicit" in attacks on major Internet companies including Google, an anti-censorship group said Wednesday, calling on fi...
Tech firms, activists renew surveillance reform push
Mar 25, 2015 (AFP)
Big US technology firms joined a coalition of activists Wednesday urging Congress to pass a law scaling back government surveillance ahead of key deadline. A le...
Cyber attackers leaving warning 'messages': NSA chief
Mar 19, 2015 (AFP)
Attackers hacking into American computer networks appear to be leaving "cyber fingerprints" to send a message that critical systems are vulnerable, the top US c...
Tech firms 'will win' encryption battle: Google chief
Mar 18, 2015 (AFP)
Technology firms will ultimately prevail in their efforts to use strong encryption on devices that cannot be accessed by the government, Google executive chairm...
IT firm baits hackers with online model train set
Mar 17, 2015 (AFP)
Somewhere on Earth a computer hacker types a malicious command and hits enter. Half a world away, an urban commuter train speeds out of control, derails and cra...
Facebook moves to curb spread of terror, hate speech
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
Facebook said Monday it won't allow the social network to be used to promote terrorism or hate speech as it unveiled a wide-ranging update of its "community sta...
Americans eye ways to skirt online snooping: survey
Mar 16, 2015 (AFP)
Americans have been stepping up efforts to keep their data private since the revelations about vast US government surveillance programs, a survey showed Monday....
Yahoo sees 'end to end' email encryption by year-end
Mar 15, 2015 (AFP)
Yahoo said Sunday it plans to introduce "end to end encryption" for email this year to boost privacy protection for users concerned about snooping from governme...
DARPA Brandeis Program Aims to Ensure Online Privacy Through Technology
Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)
DARPA has announced plans to research and develop tools for online privacy, one of the most vexing problems facing the connected world as devices and data proli...
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