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Encryption is really just math, and is not a moral issue. Encrypting digital data shouldn’t be considered a moral issue of good and evil. Rather, it’s a nuanced legal issue that may not be covered under existing law. That’s one
What’s happened to the real Hillary Clinton? You know, the tough-as-old-boots, show-no-weakness, ball-busting Hillary Clinton of old? Because I hardly recognised the woman who turned up to the Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday night. In a moment of remarkable
Samsung laptop owners are being urged to update their Windows PCs after the discovery of a vulnerability that can allow remote attackers to download files onto a targeted system and gain complete control over the laptop. The flaw is tied
Adobe Systems released new versions of Flash Player in order to fix 18 critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take over computers, including one flaw that’s already targeted by attackers. “Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit
YOUR CAR, IN some sense, is only as secure as the least secure Internet-connected gadget you plug into it: Researchers proved as much last summer when they hacked a Corvette’s brakes via a cellular-enabled insurance dongle attached to the sportscar’s
Researchers are tracking a massive spam campaign pelting inboxes with Locky ransomware downloaders in the form of JavaScript attachments. The huge spike, reported by security firm Trustwave, represents an extraordinary uptick in the attempted distribution of the Locky ransomware. Trustwave
The New South Wales government has officially transitioned its ServiceFirst portfolio into Unisys’ Australian head office, where the IT firm will provide a centralised IT support service to state government departments and agencies under GovConnectNSW. Speaking at the official opening
Open Compute Project: Gauging its influence in data center, cloud computing infrastructure
The Open Compute Project holds its summit in San Jose this week and the effort, which revolves around making data center components and designs more efficient and interoperable, has notched a few wins in its nearly 5-year history, but the
All it took was a look through the code. Tesla fans have been speculating for some time now about the size of the battery in the next version of the company’s Model S. Now, though, it looks like a hacker
AS SNOWDEN TAUGHT the NSA, a single insider can obliterate the data security of even the most secretive organizations. Now ISIS may have sprung a Snowden-sized leak of its own, one that could give security agencies fighting the brutal terrorist
Hackers struck Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center last month. They encrypted files critical to running the hospital’s systems. And then they asked for money. After three weeks of operating without crucial computer programs, the Los Angeles hospital paid a $17,000 ransom
Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a> The Department of Justice is expected to announce charges against up to five Iranians believed to be tied to the 2013 hacking of a New York dam, a law enforcement source told Fox
Jeffrey Johnson has the stamp of a military man, perhaps as a result of his early career in the U.S. Navy. The part in his hair might as well have been drawn with a ruler; his shirt is tucked as
Most spelling mistakes are innocent, fleeting, and only mildly embarrassing. Then there are the ones that result in a loss of over $800 million during a bank heist. Those ones suck. Reuters reports that a basic spelling error prevented an
The FBI has changed its privacy rules regarding how freely agents can gain access to and search data collected by the National Security Agency that involves the communications of Americans. It just won’t say what the changes are. Additionally, there’s
From the beginning of Apple’s fight with the FBI, there’s been an inconvenient question: why can’t the NSA just break into the San Bernardino iPhone? We know from Edward Snowden that the agency has eyes nearly everywhere, amassing data in transit
