Chinese hackers attack Google, US companies
Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an
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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTlvpj7VGsY] Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information
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Security and Privacy Risks with Household Robots
WowWee Rovio Imagine purchasing a new Rovio robot. This wheeled mobile robot sports a webcam and can be accessed easily through the internet.
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Quantum cryptography can go the distance
Quantum cryptographic networks usually work by entangling two light particles, or photons. But individual photons can only travel so far down a fibre
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UK DNA database grows on the genes of the innocent
Almost 600,000 genetic profiles taken from innocent people have helped swell the National DNA Database to cover about seven per cent of the
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UK 2017: under surveillance
IT is a chilling, dystopian account of what Britain will look like 10 years from now: a world in which Fortress Britain uses
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Technology’s challenge to privacy
The International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner’s conference brings together hundreds of privacy commissioners, government regulators, business leaders, and privacy advocates who spend
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