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NSA's XKeyscore program has nearly limitless access to all Internet activity

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NSA's XKeyscore program has nearly limitless access to all Internet activity

07.31.2013 8:34 AM

Newly unveiled NSA program from Edward Snowden shows how authorities have access to nearly all Internet activity including emails, browsing history, and even Facebook chats.

Hackers use bogus Chrome, Firefox extensions to pilfer social media accounts

07.31.2013 6:25 AM

Trend Micro has found two malicious browser extensions that hijack Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts.

 

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets cozy with MongoDB

07.30.2013 7:25 AM

Red Hat has coupled the 10gen MongoDB data store to its new identity management package for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.

MIT report says it didn't seek federal charges against Aaron Swartz

07.30.2013 11:05 AM

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology never sought a federal prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the programming prodigy who was charged with stealing millions of academic papers from an online archive at MIT, according to a report by the institute.

Cybercriminals are using the Tor network to control their botnets

07.25.2013 6:44 AM

Malware writers are increasingly considering the Tor anonymity network as an option for hiding the real location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers, according to researchers from security firm ESET.

Five indicted in massive hacking scheme

07.25.2013 9:50 AM

Five men from Russia and Ukraine have been indicted in New Jersey for charges they conspired with each other in a worldwide hacking scheme targeting major corporate networks, including Nasdaq and 7-Eleven, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

SMS spam intensifies, ranging from pesky to perilous

07.27.2013 11:19 AM

'Over-the-top' services are used to disguise text spam campaigns by sending a few messages from many phone numbers.

PRISM spying may undermine Internet free speech efforts

07.27.2013 12:15 PM

The US surveillance program PRISM has severely threatened the continued freedom of Internet advocates, says a leader in the Internet Society.

Digital ads group promotes a mobile consumer privacy policy

07.28.2013 9:00 AM

The Digital Advertising Alliance, a champion of privacy self-regulation, unveils set of principles for advertisers and tech companies to provide notice and controls over consumers' data on the mobile Web.

Petition Against Passwords pushes next-gen security

07.28.2013 1:15 PM

Critics are urging the end of passwords, but skeptics say the alternatives not yet ready for prime time.

Nerd art: Grad's 'Prism' program turns your SMS metadata into groovy wavy graphics

07.30.2013 6:21 AM

What if the NSA took your text message metadata and made a flowing, colorful diagram with a timeline?

U.S. cloud firms suffer from NSA PRISM program

07.25.2013 9:42 AM

Revelations of the NSA's massive electronic surveillance program give fuel to foreign firms and governments that warn of privacy risks of doing business with U.S. cloud service providers.

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