The attacks on Islamist positions near the ancient desert trading town of Timbuktu and Gao, the largest city in the north, marked a decisive intensification on the third day of the French mission, striking at the heart of the vast area ...
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A Canadian think tank called on Tuesday for continued scrutiny of U.S. security vendor Blue Coat Systems after a new technical analysis showed wide use of its products in countries with human rights and censorship concerns. The Citizen ...
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Microsoft will deviate from its regular Internet Explorer repair schedule today by releasing a patch for older versions of its web browser, which have raised numerous security concerns over the past weeks. The vulnerability, which is ...
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Expropriation and resource nationalism will remain the main risks for miners in 2013, according to a report published Wednesday by UK-based risk consultancy Maplecroft. Since the appropriation of mining assets by governments continues to ...
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Digital rights and privacy advocates have welcomed Yahoo's decision to provide its users with an option to enable HTTPS (HTTP Secure) for their entire webmail sessions. "We're really happy that Yahoo! is starting 2013 right by letting ...
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Yahoo has started providing webmail users the option of using a secure connection, matching a similar feature Google and Microsoft have offered for several years. Yahoo’s delay in providing a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection ...
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A zero day exploit in Internet Explorer,which Microsoft released a temporary fix for last week,has resurfaced as the fix itself has now been cracked. The original vulnerability was discovered two weeks ago,and so far no permanent ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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The U.S. on Thursday said it ordered sanctions against Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taghipour, and other entities and persons responsible for engaging in censorship in their country. Taghipour is ...
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Computerworld - Google confirmed a dropoff in traffic to its sites in China on Friday, echoing an online report that the company's services are being blocked there. All Google services are inaccessible in China, according to the Google ...
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A new cyberlaw issued by the President of the United Arab Emirates this week provides for the imprisonment of political dissidents, according to information on the law from the government-run Emirates News Agency, also known as WAM ...
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The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labour of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign (of which Anti-Slavery ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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Zac Christensen, 16, admits he was "a little bummed." "Just at first," he said. "But not once I thought about it." Instead of piling gifts under the Christmas tree this year, his parents, Janice and Jason Christensen, of Downers Grove, ...
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The Ministry of Defence awarded CSC a £303m contract after learning of allegations the supplier was involved in the illegal rendition and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The department dismissed the allegations as ...
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