A hacker group made good on its pledge to release user data stolen from the affair website Ashley Madison, creating a potential privacy and security debacle for millions.
Security
Aug 19, 2015
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The internet today is far bigger and more inextricably linked to our daily lives than its creators in the 1970s and 1980s could have imagined. So perhaps it is not surprising that some of the structures put in place decades ...
Internet
Aug 14, 2015
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The Justice Department shut down an online "criminal bazaar" where computer hackers bought and sold stolen databases, malicious software and other products that could cripple or steal information from computers and cellphones, ...
Security
Jul 15, 2015
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The revelation that the data breach at the U.S. government's personnel office was actually much worse than the government originally thought is following a familiar script.
Security
Jul 10, 2015
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A Dutch court on Thursday ordered Facebook to hand over the identity of someone who posted a revenge porn video on the social network, or face having its servers opened up to an outside investigator.
Internet
Jun 25, 2015
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U.S. authorities investigating last summer's celebrity photo-hacking scandal have seized computers and cell phones from a small home in Chicago, according to court documents.
Security
Jun 10, 2015
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Ross Ulbricht, aka the "Dread Pirate Roberts", has been sentenced to life in prison without parole by a Manhattan Federal Court for masterminding the Silk Road anonymous online illegal marketplace. Ulbricht was labelled a ...
Internet
Jun 3, 2015
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Researchers of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT have investigated Cloud databases and established: developers wrongly use authentications for cloud services thereby threatening millions of user accounts ...
Security
May 29, 2015
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The Internet Protocol (IP) has been phenomenally successful. From an experiment in the 1970s, it has evolved to an internet spanning the globe, connecting billions of users. IP underpins the enormous success that is the World ...
Internet
May 28, 2015
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In the latest disclosure of a cyberattack against a health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield says that attackers gained access to a database that included the names of 1.1 million people.
Security
May 20, 2015
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