SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, ...
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Prism whistle-blower Edward Snowden persuaded other National Security Agency (NSA) colleagues to give him their login details and passwords, which he later used to gain access to classified information that he later leaked to the media. ...
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The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has called on the public to provide written and oral evidence, as it seeks to determine whether current legislation on the privacy of communications is still "fit for purpose". In July, the ...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Yahoo counterpart Marissa Mayer have both commented on the NSA Prism revelations, insisting that both web firms did as much as they could to resist governmental demands to reveal personal data of users. ...
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Due to tremendous stress in life and in work caused by economic slowdown, population growth and so on, sleep problems have become global concerns. A good night's sleep is only a click away! Made-in-China.com prepared a wide range of ...
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Yahoo has won a court ruling that allows the release of records that show how the web firm fought against demands to hand over data under Prism, when the web monitoring system was first established in 2008. A court ruled that the United ...
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Governments routinely use the internet to spy on people and organisations, and to steal sensitive and classified information - and we'd all better get used to it. That is the message from Chinese' networking company Huawei's head of ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives moved closer Wednesday toward the passage of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), despite concerns that the cyberthreat information-sharing bill will allow Web-based companies to share ...
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The US government plans to reinforce its cybersecurity programme by expanding web monitoring, using a process which currently scans traffic going in and out of defence contractors and expanding it to private firms. That means employees of ...
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As federal CIOs develop new strategies to support an increasingly mobile workforce, they will inevitably have to decide whether to adopt a bring-your-own-device policy, just as a similar challenge confronts their counterparts in the private ...
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The President, in his annual State of the Union speech to a joint session of the US Congress, said the United States is facing a “rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks.” “We know hackers steal people's identities and ...
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Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, but that no classified information was compromised. The agency is working with federal ...
Unidentified attackers stole sensitive information from hundreds of diplomatic, government, research and military organizations from around the world as part of a newly uncovered cyberespionage campaign that started nearly six years ago. ...
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A cyber espionage network has been allowed to flourish in Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics and Central Asian countries since 2007, security firm Kaspersky Lab reported this week. The group, called Red October, has been stealing ...
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