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US declares cybercrime a ‘national emergency’, threatens sanctions against hackers, online espionage

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
US declares cybercrime a ‘national emergency’, threatens sanctions against hackers, online espionage
The White House has set out plans to use economic sanctions against cyber attackers and companies that benefit from the online theft of secrets.
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Verizon’s New, Encrypted Calling App Plays Nice With the NSA
Verizon is the latest big company to enter the post-Snowden market for secure communication, and it’s doing so with an encryption standard that comes with a way for law enforcement to access ostensibly secure phone conversations.
Posted on: December 16, 2014 1:07 am
Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections [Updated]
Lenovo is selling computers that come preinstalled with adware that hijacks encrypted Web sessions and may make users vulnerable to HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks that are trivial for attackers to carry out, security researchers said.
Posted on: February 19, 2015 11:43 am
Files of more than 40,000 federal workers breached
WASHINGTON (AP) — The computer files of more than 40,000 federal workers may have been compromised by a cyberattack at federal contractor KeyPoint Government Solutions, the second breach this year at a major firm handling national security background investigations of workers at federal agencies,
Posted on: December 20, 2014 11:54 am

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