Security researchers have identified an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign that compromised 59 computers belonging to government organizations, research institutes, think tanks and private companies from 23 countries in the past 10 days. ...
Tags: cyber-espionage, computers, cyber security
A cyber espionage operation dubbed MiniDuke has targeted government organisations in as many as 23 countries, security vendors said on Wednesday. The malware uses well-crafted PDF documents to trick recipients into opening the malicious ...
Tags: MiniDuke, Malware, Governments
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) monitoring program is losing its relevance and effectiveness in ensuring better work and wage conditions, especially to garment workers, says a ...
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Silent Circle, a startup company that provides encrypted mobile communication services, released a new version of its Silent Text app for iOS that allows users to exchange encrypted files at the push of a button. The files can be set to ...
Tags: Silent Circle, mobile communication service, mobile app
The administrators of a popular iOS developer Web forum called iPhoneDevSDK confirmed Wednesday that it had been compromised by hackers who used it to launch attacks against its users. Security experts believe the site served as a gateway ...
Tags: iOS, PhoneDevSDK, Facebook, Apple
"You don't scare me! You're gonna need more bears," says Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in his best menacing tone, and the game moves up to the next level. Now you have to dislodge the helmet off the Belarusian leader's head by ...
Tags: video game, mobile game, company news
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Beecroft (pictured) hosted a reception at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to commemorate International Human Rights. The event was attended by members of the Council of Representatives’ Human Rights ...
Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-called lawful interception program designed for law enforcement use, security researchers from ...
Tags: Flash Player, Adobe, mergency update
American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
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Uzbek authorities have increased the use of forced labor by adults and older children in the cotton sector during the past year, Human Rights Watch said. The move was apparently made to shift the burden away from younger children in ...
Tags: cotton harvest, cotton, cotton industry
Russia has threatened to ban imports of chilled meat from the US due to the presence of feed additive ractopamine, in the latest in a series of food safety complaints from the ex-Soviet power. Russia is considering a temporary ban on ...
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Related Media USDA whistles past the Pigford graveyard Breitbart and Pigford: Fraud claims and farmer lawsuits Tired of waiting for resolution of Pigford II, the Memphis-based Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) is ...
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq and the beginning of a new chapter in our bilateral relationship. Over the past year, Iraq has assumed an increasingly prominent place in the region ...
Tags: US, Investment and Commercial Ties, Iraq
Cryptocat, a project building an instant messaging platform that provides more privacy and security for activists, plans a host of improvements this year, including developing an application for mobile devices. An open-source program, ...
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Security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the government's latest plans to make NHS medical records all-electronic, shared not just throughout the NHS, but with care homes and social services, too. Under plans unveiled ...
Tags: NHS medical, social service, medical records, Data-Sharing