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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Apple says it has end-to-end encryption for iMessage and FaceTime communications, but users should not interpret that as providing an ironclad defense against government snooping. |
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Source: Tech News Daily - Posted by Alex
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A Dutch drug ring employed a group of Belgian hackers to reroute two tons (1,814 kilograms) of cocaine and heroin into their waiting arms — but the police nabbed them just before they could carry out their devious plan. |
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Source: Chronicle - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A number of questions have been raised in the last few days about the civil-liberties implications of the National Security Agency’s seven-year-old programs to gather data on telephone and e-mail conversations—the programs characterized by President Obama on Friday as “modest encroachments” on privacy. |
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Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex
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Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions. |
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Source: ABS-CBN News - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The hacker who released what he claimed were the mobile phone numbers of President Aquino said his act was not cyber vandalism. |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Alex
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Don’t read this if you aren’t him. |
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Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD for a decade -- and that's how the massive NSA surveillance of the Internet affects the US's role in Internet governance. |
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Source: Information Week - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Convicted LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary, 21, is set to be released "imminently" after appearing Wednesday in a London courtroom for sentencing relating to charges that he made and possessed 172 indecent images of children on his PC. |
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Source: eSecurity Planet - Posted by Dave Wreski
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How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system? That question was asked and answered at the Red Hat Summit this week by Josh Bressers, who heads the Red Hat Product Security Team. |
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Source: LinuxSecurity Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Thank you for reading the Linux Advisory Watch Security Newsletter.
The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick
summary of each week's vendor security bulletins and pointers on
methods to improve the security posture of your open source system. |
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Source: Inquirer - Posted by Alex
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FILE STORAGE ENTREPRENEUR Kim Dotcom has released a video of the police raid on his house in January 2012. |
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Source: TechWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Google has detected large-scale phishing attacks targeting users in Iran, ahead of presidential elections in the country.
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Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The Debian project is warning users that the unofficial Debian Multimedia repository now has to be considered unsafe. According to the Debian maintainers, the debian-multimedia.org domain is not being used by the maintainers of the unofficial repository any more and is now registered to a party unknown to the Debian project. |
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