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Sony Hackers Flash Disturbing New Warning on Staffers’ Computers (Exclusive)

A group purporting to be the Guardians of Peace or #GOP sent a new warning to Sony Pictures Thursday, causing an ominous message to flash across employee computer screens, an individual familiar with the situation tells TheWrap.

Now at the Sands Casino: An Iranian Hacker in Every Server

Most gamblers were still asleep, and the gondoliers had yet to pole their way down the ersatz canal in front of the Venetian casino on the Las Vegas Strip. But early on the chilly morning of Feb.

Finland back on red alert over expansionist Russia

Captain Markus Aarnio, chief of the Gulf of Finland naval command, has the sort of craggy good looks associated with the hero of a cold war movie.

China building giant island in South China Sea large enough for airstrip: report

China is constructing a giant island in disputed waters in the South China Sea that could be used as an airstrip.

Understanding the Indo-US trade wars: An introduction

In 2006, the US-India Civil Nuclear Agreement, signed between then-US president George W Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh quickly became the then-high point in Indo-US relations — and indeed was supposed to signal a new glorious dawn in economic and business cooperation between the t

Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters

Edward Snowden, left, appears with Glenn Greenwald in a scene from the documentary Citizenfour. (Radius TWC/AP …The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called “second leaker” who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S.

Lessons cyberdefense may be able to teach us about managing Ebola

We in the computer world are all too familiar with what we’ve long called “viruses,” the malware that infects our machines and networks.

Obama signs order boosting credit, debit card security after spate of bank breaches

Responding to the rising number of data breaches at US retailers, President Obama on Friday signed an executive order that will implement enhanced payment security measures throughout the federal government.

Feds only have themselves to blame for Apple and Google’s smartphone encryption efforts

NEW YORK — For the past two weeks, federal agencies and the executive branch have launched a cacophony of critique of Apple and Google for bolstering the encryption on their users’ smartphones.

JPMorgan hack affected 76 million households, 7 million SMBs

JPMorgan Chase & Co has revealed that the personal information of 83 million accounts were exposed when the company’s computer systems were infiltrated this year, making the data breach one of the largest in history.