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Use An iPhone? Yup, The Government Tracks That

10 January 2012

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Source: FastCompany - Posted by Dave Wreski
Last week, an Indian hacker crew successfully broke into a secured Indian military government network. The group, the Lords of Dharmaraja, posted documents that infer Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion gave the Indian government backdoor access to their devices in exchange for mobile phone market rights.
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E-voting machine freezes, misreads votes, U.S. agency says

06 January 2012

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Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell
An electronic ballot scanning device slated for use in the upcoming presidential elections, misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission has found.
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Chinese Hackers Used 'Spear Phishing' To Attack U.S. Chamber Of Commerce

22 December 2011

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Source: Huffington Post - Posted by Dave Wreski
As hackers from China snooped around the computer system of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last year, many Chamber employees started receiving a dramatic uptick of spam emails.
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UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam

09 December 2011

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Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski
U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated 1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims who had taken out student loans.
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Romanian hacker arrested for breaching security of NASA's servers

16 November 2011

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Source: The Republic - Posted by Dave Wreski
A court in Romania has ordered the arrest of a Romanian man accused of Hacking into NASA's servers. Court spokesman Lucian Marian in the northwest city of Cluj says Robert Butyka would be arrested for 29 days as he awaits trial.