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Twitter won't block world leaders, citing need for discourse
Jan 05, 2018 (AFP)
The announcement came just days after a tweet from President Donald Trump hinting at the use of US nuclear weapons sparked criticism that the social network was...
Computer chip 'flaw' sparks security debate amid scramble for fix
Jan 04, 2018 (AFP)
Chip giant Intel issued a statement responding to a flurry of warnings surfacing after researchers discovered the security hole which could allow privately stor...
Two Romanians charged with hacking US capital police cameras
Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)
A criminal complaint unsealed in Washington said the two -- Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline Cismaru, 28 -- were arrested in Bucharest on December 15 an...
China jails VPN owner for over 5 years; Lithuania bans Kaspersky
Dec 22, 2017 (AFP)
The sentence comes as authorities clamp down on tools for circumventing the severe restrictions on China's internet, which prevents users from visiting a large ...
DARPA's Software Defined Radio Hackfest Creates Solutions for Spectrum Challenges
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
"The DARPA SDR Hackfest was created to engage a growing community of SDR developers and enthusiasts from a diverse range of backgrounds and I believe we accompl...
Finnish news report revealing state secrets sparks concern
Dec 18, 2017 (AFP)
The Finnish Defence Forces and the National Bureau of Investigation launched two separate probes into the "leak of classified data" after the article was publis...
US to send cyber soldiers to the battlefield; 3 plead guilty in botnet attack
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
While the Army's mission is generally to "attack and destroy," the cyber troops have a slightly different goal, said Colonel Robert Ryan, who commands a Hawaii-...
Facebook accused of inaction over Russian ads in Brexit vote
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
Damian Collins, chairman of parliament's culture and media committee, repeated his request for information as part of an investigation into the impact of "fake ...
Facing dissent from abroad, Ethiopia turns to spyware
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
With the subject line "Democracy in Ethiopia: Can it be saved?", the message seemed tailor-made for him. Yet the US-based academic, who teaches law at Washingto...
Lockheed Martin tapped to provide cyber security support
Dec 12, 2017 (UPI)
The Department of Defense on Monday announced the $77.7 million contract, which enables Lockheed Martin to "sustain analysis, design, development, test integrat...
NUS scientist develops 'toolboxes' for quantum cybersecurity
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
Quantum computers are powerful machines that can break today's most prevalent encryption technologies in minutes. Crucially, recent progress in quantum computin...
The ultimate defense against hackers may be just a few atoms thick
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
In a paper published in the journal ACS Nano, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Davood Shahrjerdi and his NYU Tandon team offer the fir...
Hackers could get even nastier in 2018: researchers
Nov 29, 2017 (AFP)
A report by the security firm McAfee said the ransomware outbreaks of 2017 offer just a taste of what's to come as hackers develop new strategies and "business ...
Quantum computers help create hack-proof forms of data encryption
Nov 28, 2017 (SPX)
To fight back against the future threat, researchers are wielding the same strange properties that drive quantum computers to create theoretically hack-proof fo...
US charges three Chinese for hacking Moody's, Siemens
Nov 27, 2017 (AFP)
The three were associated with Guangdong-based Guangzhou Boyu Information Technology Company, known as Boyusec, which some Western security analysts allege has ...
Hackers stole data from 57 million Uber riders, drivers: CEO
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
"None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it," said a statement from chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over at the rideshari...
Skype joins list of apps on China blacklist
Nov 22, 2017 (AFP)
Skype is no longer available for download from the Chinese Apple Store or popular Android sites, with Chinese web-users saying it had been gone for weeks. "We h...
Kaspersky blames NSA hack on infected Microsoft software
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
Adding tantalizing new details to the cyber-espionage mystery that has rocked the US intelligence community, Kaspersky also said there was a China link to the h...
Air Force awards contract to Ball Aerospace to protect against cyber attacks
Nov 16, 2017 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by U.S. Air Force officials, is worth $47.9 million, an increase of $41.5 million, for identifying weapon system vulnerabilities a...
'Fake news' becomes a business model: researchers
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
The online security firm Digital Shadows released a report highlighting services aimed at creating bogus media websites, fake reviews and social media "bots" or...
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