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2015-02-11

Snowden Reveals that China Stole Plans For New F-35

The documents leaked by Edward Snowden have uncovered a new large-scale industrial espionage campaign conducted by the Chinese Government. State-sponsored hackers have operated to steal sensitive information on advanced fighter aircraft, the US-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The Australian Government has ordered 72 F-35 jets that will be operational in 2020.

2015-02-11

UK Police: 'Innocent people' on unregulated photo database

Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database. This is despite a court ruling it could be unlawful. They include photos of people never charged, or others cleared of an offence, and were uploaded without Home Office approval.

2015-02-09

Anthem failed to encrypt data prior to cyber-attack

Despite myriad health information standards and a landmark law to protect patient privacy, it appears insurance giant Anthem (ANTM) apparently didn’t encrypt personal data of 80 million of its customers.

2015-02-05

US Military Is Building Advanced Military Drones

For the Pentagon, drones are cheaper to buy and to operate than regular fighter jets. An armed MQ-9 Reaper drone runs about $14 million, compared to $180 million or more for an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. But unlike barrel-rolling a jet, the business of actually operating a unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, for the military is lonely, thankless, and incredibly difficult.

2015-02-05

Kaspersky Lab Presents a Forecast for 2045

About 30 years ago the personal computer began to make its way into regular use – and it went on to transform society and the way we live our lives. Kaspersky Lab's experts decided to mark that anniversary by looking further into the future and imagining how information technology might develop and change our lives in the new digital realities of 2045, 30 years from now.

2015-02-05

Apple iOS Backdoor: Snowden says iPhone is a Government Spy

Infamous former NSA contractor Edward Snowden thinks that Apple's iPhone has "unique computer software" that authorities can activate remotely to be in a position to gather information about the user.

2015-01-29

NSA Director on Sony Hack: ‘The Entire World is Watching’

National Security Agency Director Admiral Michael Rogers expressed support Thursday for the United States’ economic sanctions against North Korea in response to the hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and called the attack against the movie studio a “game changer” for cybersecurity.

2015-01-27

Critical Infrasctructure: UK and US Power Grids - Under Cyber Attack Every Minute

The UK government is one step ahead of hackers trying to turn off the country’s lights, for now. The prospect of cyber-attacks on the nation’s power network is a major threat to the country’s security, according to James Arbuthnot, a member of parliament who chaired the Defense Select Committee until last year. He plans to visit National Grid Plc. (NG/) next month to discuss the issue.

2015-01-26

Snowden Says US Creates A Black Market for Digital Weapons

James Bamford, a journalist, who is working with NOVA on a new film about cyber warfare that will air in 2015, last summer sat down with Snowden in a Moscow hotel room for a lengthy interview, which has now been released. In it, Snowden sheds light on the surprising frequency with which cyber attacks occur, their potential for destruction, and what, exactly, he believes is at stake as governments and rogue elements rush to exploit weaknesses found on the internet, one of the most complex systems ever built by humans.

2015-01-20

Android Apps Collect Personal Data – But just how much may surprise you

Many apps collect plenty of personal data in an attempt to track users online and serve them targeted ads in the process.

2015-01-17

Coming Soon. How Surveillance and Privacy will Overlap in 2025

When living a public life becomes the new default, what does privacy even mean? That’s one of the central questions in a new report about the future of privacy from Pew Research Center, which collected the opinions of more than 2,500 experts in computer programming, engineering, publishing, data science, and related fields.