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Social network spying could lead to low returns
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
Organizations looking to hire new staff should rethink their clandestine use of social networking websites, such as Facebook, to screen new recruits. William St...
Forecast: 2014 will be year of encryption
Dec 20, 2013 (UPI)
Security experts expect that 2014 will be "The Year of Encryption" for companies and organizations amid continuing fallout from the Edward Snowden affair. "Rega...
UK to boost control over cyber centre run by China's Huawei
Dec 17, 2013 (AFP)
Britain must boost its oversight of a cyber-security centre run by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday, after lawmakers rai...
Raytheon BBN Technologies and GrammaTech collaborate to help U.S. government prevent malware in IT devices
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
Raytheon BBN Technologies and GrammaTech, Inc. are collaborating on a $4.8 million contract award under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's VET prog...
IT industries set to lose billions because of privacy concerns
Dec 17, 2013 (UPI)
Information technology companies stand to lose billions of dollars of business because of concerns their services are neither secure nor private, U.S. advocacy ...
US to keep NSA and cyber command chief's job unified
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
A White House review will conclude that a sweeping US spy agency program to collect data on telephone calls and Internet use should continue but with new privac...
Panel hands Obama US surveillance report: official
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
A review panel handed President Barack Obama a report Friday on surveillance by US spy agencies in the wake of explosive revelations on vast phone and Internet ...
FireEye report: Chinese hackers target foreign ministries
Dec 13, 2013 (UPI)
Cybersecurity company FireEye claims Chinese hackers broke into the computer systems of five European foreign ministries over the summer. The hackers sent email...
Apple removes censorship bypass app on Chinese orders: developers
Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)
US technology giant Apple has removed an anti-censorship application from its Chinese app store on orders from Beijing, the software's developers said Friday. T...
Ukrainian sent to US prison in cybercrime case
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
A Ukrainian national who admitted to setting up a huge online marketplace for stolen financial data was sentenced to serve 18 years in a US prison Thursday, off...
Microsoft leads attack on search traffic thieves
Dec 06, 2013 (AFP)
Microsoft on Thursday announced it worked with police in Europe and the United States to disrupt a "dangerous" army of virus-infected computers used to hijack s...
US tech sanctions hurt democracy activists: study
Dec 05, 2013 (AFP)
Broad US sanctions aimed at keeping certain technologies out of the hands of repressive regimes can often backfire by hurting democracy movements, a think tank ...
Sound protection standards for secret spaces may be insufficient
Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)
What's the best place to conduct a conversation about a confidential or even classified matter? Surprisingly, probably not a conference room designed in accorda...
Australia probes spy case at top science authority
Dec 04, 2013 (AFP)
Australian police and intelligence agencies were Tuesday investigating a suspected industrial espionage case at the country's top scientific organisation involv...
US concerned over deal by China's Huawei in South Korea
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
Top US officials expressed concern Tuesday at reports that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is set to build a new broadband network in South Korea that Washington ...
Japan set to pass secrets law despite growing disquiet
Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)
A controversial state secrets bill is expected to become law in Japan this week despite objections from a broadening coalition who say the legislation is being ...
Israeli hacking school trains cyber warriors
Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)
Three hooded hackers hunch over their computer screens in the control room at Israel's new state-of-the-art "Cyber Gym", where IT and infrastructure company emp...
Battleship attactica: Soundwave-borne viruses 'can stop fleets'
Nov 25, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The nightmare defeat of fleets disabled by computer viruses, a premise of the popular TV show Battlestar Galactica, is haunting some in the US Navy. Air gap jum...
Internet founder warns growing surveillance 'threatens democracy'
Nov 22, 2013 (AFP)
The growing surveillance and censorship of the Internet "threatens the future of democracy", the inventor of the world wide web said on Friday. Tim Berners-Lee ...
Unbreakable: US Army's 'Numurekwa'etuu' helped beat Germans
Nov 20, 2013 (AFP)
Native American "code talkers" who used their indigenous languages to keep critical military secrets from World War II enemies are finally getting their due in ...
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