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security
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WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Stratfor Internal Emails
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
WikiLeaks is doing stuff that doesn’t involve Julian Assange’s career as a television personality – in this case leaking a cache of over 5 million internal emails from Stratfor, a “global intelligence” company. They reveal secret intelligence services provided to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, among others.
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If You Want To Delete Your Google Web History, Do It Now
23 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s new unified privacy policy takes effect on March 1st, allowing Google to share users’ data among all of its products. This means that your entire Google Web History – everything you’ve searched for on Google, and every site you’ve visited while signed in to a Google account – will be pooled together.
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Google Introduces Facial Recognition Feature
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world’s largest search engine is busy rolling out technology that can track your face. Facebook has been doing this for a while, so this sounds like Google playing catch-up, but there is a neat difference: unlike on Facebook, Google+ users get to opt-in to the facial recognition feature, instead of being automatically dragged into it.
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Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used In American Airports
16 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday the European Union prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners, the kind frequently used by airport security in United States, citing cancer risks. American airport security, meanwhile, has deployed hundreds of scanners, screening millions of airline passengers – and if the European Commission’s conclusions can be trusted, exposing a fraction of those passengers to cancer risks.
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Apple iOS Security: There’s A Hack For That
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple recently showed a St. Louis, USA-based app developer a red card, giving him a one year ban from their App Development Programme, all because he tried to prove a point.
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Washington DC And NYC Police Prepare For “Possible Terrorist Attacks” On 9/11 Anniversary
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With this Sunday marking the ten year anniversary of 9/11, police say they are beefing up their presence in Washington DC and New York City. Rumours of possible repeat terrorist activity abound, and Homeland Security officials are investigating an “al-Quaida car bomb plot aimed at bridges or tunnels” in one of the two major US cities.
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Chinese Hackers Used Fake Gmail Site To Steal Activist Data
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google announced on Tuesday that they’d been they target of a phishing scam originating in Jinan, China, aimed at the accounts of Chinese activists and senior officials in the U.S. Victims were sent fake emails with links to a fake Gmail site, which harvested the usernames and passwords of anyone trying to log in.
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Texas Trying To Ban TSA Searches
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since 9/11, flying has sucked. For all of the wrong reasons, flight security has become paranoid and despotic, and nowhere worse than the USA – where TSA agents have manhandled infants and the infirm in ‘the war on terror.’ So it’s nice to see that the Texas House of Representatives just banned TSA searches without probable cause.
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Facebook Apps Have Been Leaking Private Data To Advertisers For Years
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Surprise! Security firm Symantec yesterday reported that a hole in the Facebook security system allowed third-parties like advertisers access to user accounts and private data – and that this hole has been in place for the past four years, since Facebook first started offering apps to its users.
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Security Is Tight At Game
24 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Game stores chose ‘Red Alert’ security for a reason. Probably because their security personnel are slightly more advanced than your average baton-wielding hack. They have computer skills, for example – which are useful for handling CCTV monitoring footage. Or, you know, solitaire. Note, this image was not taken inside a security ‘hokkie.’ That is, in […]
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