Military systems, especially contractors, are extremely vulnerable to intrusion by hackers. What they find is then often put on the web for all to see. Not good for the secretive Military Industrial Complex!
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News South China Morning Post Exclusive Interview with Snowden: 'Not Hiding; Neither Traitor or Hero
06-13-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Ex-CIA contractor speaks to reporter from secret location in Hong Kong, revealing fresh details of US surveillance, pressure on Hong Kong, snooping and cyber attacks on China.
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News The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
06-07-2013
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Wired.com
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
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News Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Unhackable. It’s Not
06-07-2013
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Wired.com
In the never-ending arms race between secret-keepers and code-breakers, the laws of quantum mechanics seemed to have the potential to give secret-keepers the upper hand
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News It Won’t Be Easy, But Here’s How You Can Keep All Your Conversations Private
06-07-2013
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Wired.com
Your private conversations aren’t that private. In fact, the government is tapped into the servers of the top technology companies.
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News A Password So Secret, You Don’t Consciously Know It
06-06-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Researchers work to develop passwords so secret that only your unconscious mind knows them.
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News Infected Photos Steal From Car Shoppers
06-05-2013
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technewsdaily.com
If an online seller sends you photos of an item, run them through a malware scanner first — at least according to the FBI.
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News Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow
05-31-2013
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Wired.com
As a teenager in the early 90s, Peter Chu was obsessed with an online game called DikuMUD. He spent countless hours playing this Dungeons-and-Dragons-like computer creation, but playing wasn’t enough.
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News Fake 'Android Defender' Promises Security, Delivers Malware
05-31-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The newest threat to Android is an app that promises users security for their mobile devices.
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News Russia Busts CIA ‘Spy’ and His Gmail
05-15-2013
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Wired.com
Officially, Ryan Christopher Fogle worked as a junior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
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News LinkedIn Leveraged to Lend New Life to Old Scam
05-09-2013
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technewsdaily.com
Scammers are using LinkedIn to give their garden-variety cons an added air of legitimacy as they attempt to part gullible Internet users from their cash.
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News Honeypots Lure Industrial Hackers Into the Open
05-08-2013
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Technologyreview.com
Dummy water-plant control systems rapidly attracted attention from hackers who tinkered with their settings—suggesting it happens to real industrial systems, too.
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News Google Falsely Accuses Infowars, Drudge of Malware
05-07-2013
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Prison Planet
Google has committed more hacking and Internet crimes than any other institution in history
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Pentagon: Chinese government, military behind cyberspying
05-06-2013
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Ernesto Londoño via The Washington Post
Cyber-espionage targeting U.S. government and business entities appears “to be attributable to the Chinese government and military,” the Pentagon charged Monday in the U.S. government’s most explicit public accusation to date against Beijing.
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News Startup Taps Quantum Encryption for Cybersecurity
05-06-2013
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Martin LaMonica via TechnologyReview.com
GridCom Technologies says quantum cryptography can work to make the electricity grid control systems secure.
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News Researchers Hack Building Control System at Google’s Australian HQ
05-06-2013
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
Researchers hacked into a building control panel showing the layout of water pipes in Google’s third floor at its Australia headquarters
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News Why Is The U.K. Looking To Kids For Cybersecurity Help?
05-06-2013
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Kelsey Atherton via PopSci.com
The United Kingdom is worried about not having enough cybersecurity professionals in the near future.
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News Alleged ‘SpyEye’ Botmaster Ends Up in America, Handcuffs
05-06-2013
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Kim Zetter via WIRED.com
A 24-year-old Algerian man landed in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday to face federal charges that he hijacked customer accounts at more than 200 banks and financial institutions, capping a months-long extradition battle.
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News Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take
05-05-2013
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Dan Kaminsky via WIRED.com
Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker
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News Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case
05-01-2013
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Kevin Poulsen via WIRED.com
On Monday, July 6, 2009, two engineers from Nevada’s Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge.
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News A Famous iPhone Hacker Just Jailbroke Google Glass And Found Potential Security Problems
05-01-2013
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Business Insider
Not even Google Glass can stand up to the itchy fingers of famed iPhone hacker Jay Freeman.
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Headlines: A Famous iPhone Hacker Just Jailbroke Google Glass And Found Potential Security Problems -- Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That’s a Federal Hacking Case -- Let’s Cut Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Hacker-Entrepreneur’s Take -- Alleged ‘SpyEye’ Botmaster Ends Up in America, Handcuffs
-- Why Is The U.K. Looking To Kids For Cybersecurity Help? -- Researchers Hack Building Control System at Google’s Australian HQ
-- Startup Taps Quantum Encryption for Cybersecurity --
Pentagon: Chinese government, military behind cyberspying -- Google Falsely Accuses Infowars, Drudge of Malware -- Honeypots Lure Industrial Hackers Into the Open -- LinkedIn Leveraged to Lend New Life to Old Scam -- Russia Busts CIA ‘Spy’ and His Gmail -- Fake 'Android Defender' Promises Security, Delivers Malware -- Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow -- Infected Photos Steal From Car Shoppers -- A Password So Secret, You Don’t Consciously Know It -- It Won’t Be Easy, But Here’s How You Can Keep All Your Conversations Private -- Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Unhackable. It’s Not -- The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) -- South China Morning Post Exclusive Interview with Snowden: 'Not Hiding; Neither Traitor or Hero --