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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000
Trump’s retweets of a British anti-Muslim hate group sound alarms for those who study the propaganda behind some of history’s greatest tragedies.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 02:00:00 -0800
The world of security is getting super weird. And the solutions may be even weirder than the threats.
I told you last week that some of the biggest companies in technology have been caught deliberately introducing potential vulnerabilities into mobile operating systems and making no effort to inform users.
One of those was introduced into Android by Google. In that case, Android had been caught transmitting location data that didn’t require the GPS system in a phone, or even an installed SIM card. Google claimed that it never stored or used the data, and it later ended the practice.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 01:15:15 +0000
Roman Seleznev, a Russian man who is already serving a record 27-year sentence in the United States for cybercrime charges, was handed a 14-year sentence this week by a federal judge in Atlanta for his role in a credit card and identity theft conspiracy that prosecutors say netted more than $50 million. Separately, a Canadian national has pleaded guilty to charges of helping to steal more than a billion user account credentials from Yahoo.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:56:04 +0000
The Justice Department has struck a plea deal with Nghia Hoang Pho, a programmer in the NSA’s elite operations unit, for taking his highly classified work home with him.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 00:38:02 +0000
Attackers are continually redirecting their efforts from the desktop to the mobile endpoint, and as a result, threats to the mobile platform are currently on the rise.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 23:23:24 +0000
The company’s fix for an embarrassing security bug includes a big bug of its own.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 23:23:24 +0000
The company’s fix for an embarrassing security bug includes a big bug of its own.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:36:03 +0000
Further analysis of North Korea’s latest ICBM launch shows that the country can likely land a nuclear weapon anywhere in the continental United States.
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