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Russian accused of hacking 'may die in US prison': father
Jul 11, 2014 (AFP)
The lawmaker father of a Russian man detained by the US on hacking charges warned Friday his son would die without medical help, raising the stakes in the lates...
Putin condemns 'hypocrisy' of Western cyber-espionage
Jul 11, 2014 (AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday condemned the "hypocrisy" of Western countries who use cyber-espionage to eavesdrop on leaders, and called for an int...
Industrial control a weak link in cybersecurity: study
Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)
Cybersecurity threats are rising for industrial control systems around the world, a growing target for attackers seeking to wreak havoc, a study showed Thursday...
Kerry warns of 'chilling' hacking in China talks
Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday denounced the "chilling effect" of Internet hacking on US businesses as he wrapped up two days of high-level talks ...
Verizon data queries nearly 150,000 in 2014
Jul 08, 2014 (AFP)
US telecom giant Verizon said Tuesday it received nearly 150,000 requests for customer data from US law enforcement agencies in the first half of 2014. The tota...
Moscow accuses US of 'abducting' Russian MP's son
Jul 08, 2014 (AFP)
Moscow accused Washington on Tuesday of abducting the son of a Russian lawmaker who was arrested in the Maldives on suspicion of being one of the world's most p...
Hackers take over Israel army Twitter account
Jul 04, 2014 (AFP)
Internet hackers briefly took over an Israeli army Twitter account, the military said Friday, posting an alarming message that a nuclear facility had been hit b...
US to push China on hacking at high-level talks
Jul 02, 2014 (AFP)
Washington will push Beijing to crack down on cyber-spying and halt the theft of corporate data when the two powers meet next week for high-level talks, a US di...
NSA releases first statistics on surveillance sweep
Jun 27, 2014 (AFP)
The US National Security Agency released its first "transparency report" Friday, as part of an effort to quell the firestorm over reports of its massive data co...
Warrant needed for cell phone search: top US court
Jun 25, 2014 (AFP)
In a major civil liberties test in the digital age, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police must obtain a warrant before searching the cell phone of a ...
Line app urges password changes as Japan probes hacking
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
Smartphone messenger application Line, which has hundreds of millions of users across Asia, was urging people to change their passwords Thursday as Japanese pol...
Hong Kong pro-democracy tabloid blames Beijing for cyber-attack
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
A leading Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper blamed Beijing on Thursday for a massive cyber-attack on its website, just days after a series of similar attacks on...
Guarding against 'Carmageddon' cyberattacks
Jun 12, 2014 (SPX)
The potential value of turning the nation's freeways into "smart transportation systems" is enormous. Equipping the nation's concrete arteries with a nervous sy...
Chinese military linked to seven years of hacking US aerospace industry
Jun 11, 2014 (SPX)
A shadowy hacking group believed to be affiliated with the Chinese military has spent years infiltrating the American aerospace industry and US trading partners...
CIA joins Twitter, Facebook
Jun 06, 2014 (AFP)
The secretive US spy agency joined the world of social media Friday, and quickly had the Twitterverse talking. "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our...
Tech firms mark Snowden leaks with new campaign
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
Some of the largest technology firms and activists marked the anniversary of Edward Snowden's leaks on Thursday with new efforts to thwart online snooping and b...
Last original Navajo Code Talker dies
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
Chester Nez, the last of 29 Navajo Indians who helped create a code used during World War II and never broken by the Axis Powers, died Wednesday. He was 93. Fla...
Google steps up bid to stymie email snooping
Jun 04, 2014 (AFP)
Google stepped up its effort Wednesday to make it tougher for spies or anyone else to snoop on email, unveiling Chrome browser software for scrambling digital m...
International raid targets data-stealing computer virus: US
Jun 02, 2014 (AFP)
An international dragnet has dismantled a global computer hacker network which used a sophisticated computer virus to steal millions of dollars from companies a...
NSA scoops up images for facial recognition programs: report
Jun 01, 2014 (AFP)
The US National Security Agency is scooping up large quantities of images of people for use in facial recognition programs, the New York Times reported Sunday, ...
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