A hacker serving a 20-year sentence for stealing personal data on 1,300 U.S. military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The new charges have derailed plans to […]
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How much damage getting hacked causes you often dictates how much you should care. If your mobile phone that’s only used to play Plants vs. Zombies gets exploited you probably won’t care. Your main computer getting hacked with banking access and email logins may take
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The Upside to Privacy Violations Several recent incidents involving privacy violations have provided a glimmer of light among all the doom and gloom. First came the news that Google had unveiled an alleged child pornographer after discovering kiddyporn images in his Gmail account. While some
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Microsoft’s Office for iPad Wildly Successful Microsoft’s Office for iPad has had more than 12 million downloads in the week since its release. Each of the apps —Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote — are free but require an Office 365 subscription to be able to
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A 12-year-old Canadian boy has pleaded guilty to hacking government and police websites during the student uprising in spring 2012, creating computer havoc and causing $60,000 damage. According to a story published by the Toronto Sun, the boy traded pirated information to Anonymous in exchange
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Well, not quite, but there is one fundamental thing about passwords that I and almost every other security expert has overlooked. For a long, long time, we in the security business have been thinking about maximal strength, maximum entropy, minimal length passwords; we have been
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