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Syria government supporters hack The Financial Times

The Financial Times’ website and Twitter feeds were hacked on Friday, renewing questions about whether the popular social media service has done enough to tighten security as cyber-attacks on the news media intensify. The Syrian Electronic Army, an online group … Continue reading

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U.S. cyber bill proponents hope second time’s a charm

With top intelligence officials warning that cyber attacks have replaced terrorism as the leading threat against the United States, the White House and lawmakers have spent months discussing how to improve the flow of information between the government and the … Continue reading

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Hacking robotic arms, predicting flight arrival times, manufacturing in America, tracking Disney customers (industrial Internet links)

Flight Quest (GE, powered by Kaggle) — Last NovemberGE, Alaska Airlines, and Kaggle announced the Flight Quest competition, which invites data scientists to build models that can accurately predict when a commercial airline flight touches down and reaches its gate. … Continue reading

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Symantec defiant after New York Times hackers evade antivirus

Symantec has offered a carefully-worded but defiant response to the news that one of its customers, the New York Times, was attacked by Chinese hackers with barely any intervention from its software. View full post on Techworld.com security For more … Continue reading

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Journal Times editorial: Cellphone tracking needs restraint, too

With a Supreme Court decision on GPS tracking of citizens just past, the next privacy issue is already on the horizon. A story in the New York Times last weekend reported on the regular and aggressive cellphone tracking practiced by … Continue reading

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NASA says it was hacked 13 times last year (Reuters)

Reuters – NASA said hackers broke into its computer systems 13 times last year, stealing employee credentials and gaining access to mission-critical projects in breaches that could compromise U.S. national security. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View … Continue reading

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New York Times, Not Hackers, Accidentally Spams Its Readers (Mashable)

Regardless of whether you ever subscribed to home delivery of The New York Times, you may have received an email on Wednesday that offered to give you a deal if you re-subscribe. Although some of the email’s more than 8 … Continue reading

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The Hacker: The only medal I will get is for breaking the ton hundreds of times

Regular readers have long become accustomed to being addressed from the depths of despair, which is where we hackers spend most of our wretched golfing existence. But never have I descended to the depth I sank to last weekend, when … Continue reading

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Cyber attacks on utilities, industries rise – Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq – Navy Times

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — U.S. utilities and other crucial industries face an increasing number of cyber break-ins by attackers using more sophisticated methods, a senior Homeland Security Department official told reporters during the first tour of the government’s secretive defense … Continue reading

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