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How Soviets used IBM Selectric keyloggers to spy on US diplomats

A National Security Agency memo that recently resurfaced a few years after it was first published contains a detailed analysis of what very possibly was the world's first keylogger

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• Oct 14, 2015

Automatic Face Recognition and Surveillance

ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but they'll soon be obsolete. You won't have to show your ID, because you'll be identified automatically. A security camera will capture your face, and it'll be matched with your name and a whole lot of other information besides.

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• Oct 05, 2015

Stealing Fingerprints

The news from the Office of Personnel Management hack keeps getting worse. In addition to the personal records of over 20 million US government employees, we've now learned that the hackers stole fingerprint files for 5.6 million of them.

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• Oct 02, 2015

Privacy group calls for a boycott of tech companies supporting CISA

Privacy advocates are stepping up their lobbying efforts against the controversial cyber threat information sharing bill currently in Congress after several tech giants indicated their support.

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• Sep 24, 2015

Mapping How Tor

Online privacy projects come and go. But as the anonymity software Tor approaches its tenth year online, it

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• Sep 18, 2015

Let's Encrypt issues first free digital certificate

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• Sep 16, 2015

Tor becomes extra secure as .onion becomes Special-Use Domain Name

The dark web browser Tor has now become extra secure as the .onion url has now been assigned special-use status. The Engineering Task Force (IETF) along with Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, part of ICANN, has granted formal recognition to the .onion domain, adding it to the list of Special-Use Domain Names.

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• Sep 14, 2015

Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos

The TSA is learning a basic lesson of physical security in the age of 3-D printing: If you have sensitive keys

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• Sep 11, 2015

Tired of memorizing passwords? A Turing Award winner came up with this algorithmic trick

Passwords are a bane of life on the Internet, but one Turing Award winner has an algorithmic approach that he thinks can make them not only easier to manage but also more secure.

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• Sep 01, 2015

Tor connection vulnerability uncloaks hidden web services

MIT researchers have developed digital attacks which can unmask Tor services in the Deep Web with a high degree of accuracy.

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• Jul 31, 2015

Groups urge Obama to oppose cyberthreat sharing bills

U.S. President Barack Obama should oppose legislation intended to let businesses share cyberthreat information with each other and with government agencies because the bill would allow the sharing of too much personal information, a coalition of digital rights groups and security experts said.

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• Jul 30, 2015

Researchers claim they

Tor, the world's largest and most well-known "onion router" network, offers a degree of anonymity that has made it a popular tool of journalists, dissidents, and everyday Internet users who are trying to avoid government or corporate censorship (as well as Internet drug lords and child pornographers).

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• Jul 27, 2015

Configure Postfix TLS with a Free StartSSL Certificate

One recommended way to help secure your Postfix mail server is enabling TLS (Transport Layer Security) for connections to and from Postfix. You can search for more detailed descriptions of exactly how TLS works, but basically it

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• Jul 14, 2015

Security News This Week: Your VPN Probably Isn

So many hacks, so few days in the week to write alarming stories about every one. Here

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• Jul 03, 2015

Why China Wants Your Sensitive Data

Leading into 2015, the cybersecurity community was still reeling from the impact of a destructive attack unlike any other we have seen in terms of visibility, scale, and impact. Already halfway into 2015, there is no shortage of breaches. We have already witnessed major compromises in healthcare, the US government, the Bundestag, and media being attacked by sophisticated adversaries, in most cases, roaming freely on networks for months at a time.

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• Jun 29, 2015

IT: Forget the device, secure the data

Last June, Wisegate, a crowd sourced IT research company, surveyed hundreds of its senior-level IT professional members to assess the current state of security risks and controls in business today. The respondents considered malware and breaches of sensitive data to be the primary security risks/threats, followed by malicious outsider risk.

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• Jun 26, 2015

WikiLeaks Releases New Sony Files Along with Saudi Foreign Ministry Documents

WikiLeaks is back at it again. After having announced back in May that it would resume its activity, the WikiLeaks team has released two new batches of documents in the span of two days.

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• Jun 22, 2015

Hack of OPM reportedly exposed second set of much more sensitive data

The hackers who breached the US Office of Personnel Management accessed a second set of even more highly sensitive data, it was widely reported Friday, in revelations that make the breach one of the biggest thefts of data on federal workers.

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• Jun 15, 2015

Every Single Federal Employee's Social Security Number Was Hacked: Report

A breach of U.S. government computers

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• Jun 11, 2015

New Snowden documents reveal secret memos expanding spying

Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified NSA documents.

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• Jun 05, 2015