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Is the US Government spying on you?
There’s a whole lot of spying going on: the US and China continue to bicker over who’s spying on who, and the Washington Post fumbles an early scoop that clearly confuses what may end up being the biggest information leak since the Wikileaks scandal. In the midst of this surveillance brouhaha, the confidential source that
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Apple iOS 7 coming in Fall 2013
Apple officially announced the next version of their mobile device operating system at the Worldwide Developer Conference on June 10th. The rumors of a redesigned interface proved to be true, as iOS 7 showed off a completely reskinned interface that features a more muted color scheme with “flattened” elements, a marked departure from the infamous
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No Facial Recognition in Google Glass…for Now
Proving that sometimes our Congress people come by their paychecks honestly, a bi-partisan privacy caucus led by Joe Barton (Rep. TX) sent a list of questions to Google’s CEO Larry Page, asking him point blank about several privacy issues, including whether or not Google would allow the use of facial recognition technology on the device.
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Public Chargers Could Hack Your iPhone
The upcomign Black Hat security conference features a topic that may give traveling iPhone users second thoughts about using a public charging station to juice up their phones. Three security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have built a prototype device that can hack an iPhone through the dock connector merely by being plugged in. Supposedly
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Chinese Hackers Have Allegedly Stolen US Military Weapon Designs
According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon has recently received a report that states that over 2 dozen US weapon systems plans and specifications have been stolen via digital attacks on defense contractor and subcontractor systems. The list of possibly compromised systems include several key military assets such as the FA-18 fighter, the F-35 Joint
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Hackers Crack Hashed Passwords in Minutes
In a controlled experiment run by technology website ArsTechnica.com, hackers were given a list of over 16000 hashed passwords and asked to try to decipher as many as possible. Not only were they able to crack over 90% of the passwords in about 20 hours, one of them managed to decipher over 60% of the
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