How to Stop People from Swiping Your Online Photos
• technewsdaily.comImagine driving down the freeway and seeing a photo that you took on vacation plastered across a billboard.
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Hacking, Cyber Security
Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
• businessweek.comIn October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he rented a condo.
How to Avoid Mother's Day Email Scams
• technewsdaily.comIn theory, you know your mom better than anyone, so don't let a random email dictate what to buy her for Mother's Day.
This Company Dares You To Crack Its Encryption Software
• popsci.comA decade in the making, this new encryption system is so far unhackable.
Watch Aaron Swartz Get Interviewed Months Before His Suicide
• Wired.comThree young New York filmmakers sought to document how the internet is largely controlled by profit-seeking corporations, even as it has evolved into the world’s gateway for speech.
CISPA Is Dead. Now Let’s Do a Cybersecurity Bill Right
• Julian Sanchez via WIRED.comThe controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) now appears to be dead in the Senate, despite having passed the House by a wide margin earlier this month.
What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet
• Technologyreview.comA home science experiment that probed billions of Internet devices reveals that thousands of industrial and business systems offer remote access to anyone.
Man Convicted of Hacking Despite Not Hacking
• David Kravets via WIRED.comCulminating a two-week trial in which no hacking in the traditional sense occurred, a California man was convicted Wednesday
Australia police arrest hacker group LulzSec 'leader'
• http://www.bbc.co.ukAustralian police say they have arrested a "self-proclaimed leader" of the hacking group LulzSec.
Aaron Swartz Film Kickstarted by Director of Anonymous Documentary
• http://www.wired.com, By Angela WatercutterBrian Knappenberger, the director of the Anonymous documentary We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, was at the Social Computing Symposium conference at New York University when he heard that Aaron Swartz had passed away.
Caught in the System, Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past
• Kim Zetter via WIRED.comEarly last week, before the suspects were identified in the Boston Marathon bombings, a U.S. probation officer and his supervisor visited the Manhattan apartment of programmer Stephen Watt with a question:
Caught in the System, Ex-Hacker Is Stalked by His Past
• wired.comEarly last week, before the suspects were identified in the Boston Marathon bombings, a U.S. probation officer and his supervisor visited the Manhattan apartment of programmer Stephen Watt with a question: Did Watt happen to know anything.....
Here’s a Good Reason to Encrypt Your Data
• David Kravets via WIRED.comThere’s many reasons to password-protect — or encrypt — one’s digital data. Foremost among them is to protect it during a security breach.
Reddit Is More Dangerous Than The Syrian Electronic Army's Hackers
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comHow a high-profile hack fell apart within seconds, and why good intentions are often the most efficient way to destroy lives.
AP hacked, reports White House explosions; stocks plunge but quickly recover
• .Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House. The false tweet said there had been 2 explosions at the White House and that President Obama was injured.
Hackers using Boston tragedy to build ‘botnets’
• David Shamah via TimesofIsrael.comIsraeli security company CommTouch warns that e-mail messages purporting to share news about the marathon explosions could have a sinister hidden purpose
Hacking Trial Devoid of Hacking Awaits Jury Verdict
• David Kravets via WIRED.comThe same hacking statute internet sensation Aaron Swartz was being prosecuted under until his January suicide is quietly being tested in a San Francisco federal courtroom — to little fanfare in a case devoid of hacking in the traditional sense.
Hackers Hijack CBS To Claim Obama Involvement in Boston Bombings
• Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.comHacktivists expose media’s refusal to report on private operatives at Boston bombings
Google Hacks Power Regulators to Build Greener Grid
• Robert McMillan via Wired.comGoogle has figured out a brand new way to get cleaner power into old-fashioned power grids. It’s hacking the regulators.
The House Just Passed The CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Here's Why The Internet Is Up In Arms
• Business InsiderThe U.S. House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) by a vote of 288 to 127, RT reports.
Hackers Attack 90,000 WordPress Blogs
• http://www.technewsdaily.com, by Marshall HonorofKeeping the default settings on any Internet-connected service is just asking for trouble. It's easy enough to scoff at people whose brilliant "12345" password fell victim to hackers, but it's just as simple to target usernames.
U.S. and China announce cybersecurity collaboration amid hacking dispute
• The RawStory.comChina and the US, which are embroiled in a bitter dispute over hacking, have agreed to set up a cybersecurity working group, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday.
Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet
• http://arstechnica.com, by Dan GoodinOngoing attack from >90,000 computers is creating a strain on Web hosts, too.
Hacking an Airplane With Only an Android Phone
• http://www.businessweek.com, By Sam GrobartSo it looks like someone could hack a jetliner. With an Android smartphone. Awesome.
Researcher: Hackers could start abusing electric car chargers to cripple the grid
• http://www.pcworld.com, Loek EssersHackers could use vulnerable charging stations to prevent the charging of electric vehicles in a certain area, or possibly even use the vulnerabilities to cripple parts of the electricity grid, a security researcher said during the Hack in the Box co
Can You Trust Anonymization Services?
• http://lewrockwell.com, by James BlackEvery Internet connection has a unique number – known as an Internet Protocol (IP) address – issued by an Internet service provider (ISP) and is almost always registered to a legal name, address, and Tax Identification Number.1
Suicide of raped teen reignites concerns over cyberbullying in Canada
• The RawStory.comAnother Canadian teen’s suicide after months of harassment and circulation of an image of her alleged rape by four boys has reignited concerns over cyberbullying, and led hacker group Anonymous Thursday to call for a new investigation.
5 Ways Hackers Could Kill You Right Now
• Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.comYou will never want to fly again.
5 Ways Hackers Could Kill You Right Now
• popsci.comYou will never want to fly again.
Bitcoin price bubble soars to record as investors grow nervous
• The RawStory.comIn May 2010, a programmer called Laszlo asked an online forum if anyone would buy him a couple of pies in exchange for 10,000 Bitcoins, an experimental online currency launched in 2009.
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