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Source: Times Reporter - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A reader wrote me: “I occasionally see ‘https’ in my browser. Should I suspect it might be some manner of hacking?” I wrote back that it does have something to do with hacking, but this time it’s to our advantage. |
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Source: CNET - Posted by Dave Wreski
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In an increasingly digital world, the real threat to citizens' privacy is data collection by corporations and not the Patriot Act, said former U.S. cybersecurity and counterterrorism advisor Richard Clarke.
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Source: Tor Project - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The short version: Tor relays and bridges should upgrade to Tor 0.2.2.33 or Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha so users in Iran can reach them again. |
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Source: CNET - Posted by Alex
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Web spies are getting stealthier and stealthier. Recently they've been caught peering into our browser histories to determine the sites we've visited, even in so-called privacy mode with cookies disabled, as Dan Goodin described earlier this month on The Register. |
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Source: Spiegel - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Some 250,000 diplomatic dispatches from the US State Department have accidentally been made completely public. The files include the names of informants who now must fear for their lives. It is the result of a series of blunders by WikiLeaks and its supporters. |
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Source: Washington Post - Posted by Alex
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To the uninitiated, hacker culture commands a mysterious allure. It’s a world filled with shadowy aliases and technical jargon. In this secret underground, libertarian warriors — or infantile nihilists, depending on your point of view — plot the capture of corporate data centers and attacks on government agencies.
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Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Judging by the frenzied claims of lawmakers like US representative Jackie Speier, enabling the Do Not Track feature ranks up there with locking doors and shredding credit card statements. “People have a right to surf the web without Big Brother watching their every move and announcing it to the world,” Speier said last February,when she introduced a bill to regulate online tracking. |
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Source: CNET - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Google touts the Chrome OS as being free from traditional security concerns like malware, but it's still vulnerable to entirely different kinds of attacks, two researchers from the firm WhiteHat Security told Black Hat attendees here today. |
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Source: TechTarget - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Online privacy might be the biggest oxymoron of the early 21st century. Computer users are so ready to share the most innocuous details about their lives on social networks, for example, that it seems privacy has willingly been surrendered. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Code that exploits two iPhone flaws to allow people to jailbreak their devices could, ironically, force security-conscious users to use the vulnerabilities to jailbreak their own iPhones and apply a third-party patch. |
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