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Poll Shows Broad Impact of Cyberattacks

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Saturday, December 20th, 2014

Just fewer than half of Americans say that a retailer, bank or credit-card company has told them or a household member that their payment card details were stolen in a data breach, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

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In-App Browsers Considered Harmful

How many apps on your iPhone or iPad have a built-in browser? Would it surprise you to know that every one of those apps could eavesdrop on your typing? Even when it’s in a secure login screen with a password field?

Posted on: September 25, 2014 3:53 pm

Flaw in MacBook EFI allows boot ROM malware

Next week at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress (31C3) in Hamburg, programmer/hacker Trammell Hudson will present research on ways to infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports.

Posted on: December 24, 2014 2:48 am

We can’t let tech giants, like Facebook and Twitter, control our news values

Several years ago, Vint Cerf visited the Guardian in his capacity as Google’s “evangelist in chief” – the kind of Silicon Valley title you can carry off only if you have invented the internet, which, luckily for Cerf, he had.

Posted on: September 11, 2014 1:43 am

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