Operation Aurora hack was counterespionage, not China picking on Tibetan activists
Written by v2r on May 22, 2013 – 11:02 am -Claims are made that the Aurora hackers weren't just Chinese-sponsored hackers bent on messing with Tibetan activists. Rather it was a Chinese counterintelligence operation that sought to discover if the US had uncovered the identity of clandestine agents operating within its borders....
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Congress asks Google if and how it’s protecting privacy with Glass
Written by v2r on May 20, 2013 – 2:27 pm -The US Congress sent Google a letter listing eight specific privacy areas concerning Glass that legislators would like to know quite a bit more about. As would many of us, now that you mention it. ...
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Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week
Written by v2r on May 13, 2013 – 10:52 am -It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days....
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Seriously, this is how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion
Written by v2r on May 10, 2013 – 11:30 am -Satirical news publication The Onion has gone into detail about how hackers managed to steal its passwords, access its internal emails, and hijack its Twitter account....
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AVG Joins ICT Coalition
Written by v2r on May 10, 2013 – 9:36 am -As a proud father to three wonderful kids, protecting children from online threats is a subject very close to my heart. It’s also been a significant focus of AVG products for many years – AVG Family Safety is one of the most comprehensive solutions available, and all of our security products include features that can help prote...
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Google’s Schmidt: what we need is an internet “Delete” button
Written by v2r on May 8, 2013 – 4:20 pm -The wouldn't-it-be-nice fix would take care of the sticky situations we're getting into (and Google's getting sued about) with our personal data getting sucked up by companies and advertisers. Another fanciful idea that actually makes a lot of sense: changing our name at the age of 18, as Schmidt mused. ...
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Long Live Endpoint Protection!
Written by v2r on May 7, 2013 – 10:02 pm -Last month, an article in Dark Reading by Robert Lemos asked if it was “Time To Dump Antivirus As Endpoint Protection?“. It referenced a recent Google research paper that outlined their new reputation technology called CAMP (short for Content-Agnostic Malware Protection), which they claim protects against 98.6% of malwa...
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Pentagon OKs Androids, BlackBerrys for soldiers
Written by v2r on May 7, 2013 – 2:26 pm -The US Department of Defense has approved the use of Samsung phones running "Knox," a hardened version of Android. ...
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Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
Written by v2r on May 6, 2013 – 12:30 pm -Get up to date with everything we wrote in the past seven days - it's weekly roundup time....
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US seeks to pressure Google, Facebook et al. into installing wiretapping backdoors
Written by v2r on May 1, 2013 – 2:40 pm -A new proposal would require tech firms to design surveillance-enabling trapdoors from the ground up or modify existing services, facilities and equipment. The FBI says it's necessary to quickly catch terrorists and child abusers, but others say it's a recipe for opening servers up to hacking and illicit surveillance. ...
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