computer network security
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Millions Upon Millions Upon Millions of Smart Devices Are Vulnerable to Hackers
New research shows that security flaws affecting as many as 100 million smart and industrial devices could allow a hacker to hijack the products or knock them offline.
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Turns Out This Sophisticated Hacking Campaign Was Actually the Work of ‘Western Government Operatives’
A sophisticated hacking campaign that was previously witnessed targeting security flaws in Android, Windows and iOS devices is actually the work of “Western government operatives” conducting a “counterterrorism operation,” according to a new report from MIT Technology Review.
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Indicted CEO of Encrypted Phone Firm Says Drug Charges Are Attack on the ‘Right to Privacy’
Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap, who the U.S. Department of Justice indicted last week for his alleged role in providing encryption tech to international drug cartels, has shot back that the government is targeting him to destroy the “fundamental right to privacy.”
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Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data
In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft.