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  • U.S. on Sony breach: North Korea did it

    U.S. officials now believe North Korea is behind the attack that took down Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer network and posted contents on the Internet, but the government hasn't decided whether to formally accuse the country of carrying out the hack, according to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html">The New York Times</a>.

    Written by Tim Greene19 Dec. 14 00:41
  • What Gamergate says about the tech industry

    For the last two months the video-game industry has been embroiled in an ugly outbreak of name-calling and worse. This dustup, called <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2840556/the-charge-of-the-troll-brigade-what-to-know-about-gamergate.html">Gamergate</a>, was named after a hashtag on Twitter, where much of the nasty fight has taken place. It's a battle in which women have been threatened with violence and even death by hardcore gamers. The women's crime, in their eyes: They criticized what they see as the anti-woman, anti-gay, racist nature of games and many people in the industry.

    Written by Preston Gralla04 Nov. 14 04:05
  • PCI Compliance Under Scrutiny Following Big Data Breaches

    As details filter out about the Home Depot hack (and many, many more data breaches), you can't help but ask: How did this happen -- especially when the company was supposed to adhere to specific safety regulations or else lose its capability to process credit card transactions?

    Written by Jen A. Miller23 Oct. 14 01:05
  • World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in Online Games

    Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.

    Written by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times09 Dec. 13 19:28
  • Reported NSA actions raise serious questions about tech industry partnerships

    Revelations that the National Security Agency may be pressuring vendors to put hidden backdoors in their software and hardware for espionage purposes casts a huge shadow over many programs run by the NSA to interact with the high-tech industry for purposes of evaluating, testing and accrediting products that use encryption.

    Written by Ellen Messmer10 Sept. 13 20:11
  • Google set to launch Glass app store

    Google is ramping up plans to open an app store focused solely on Google Glass, the computerized eyeglasses expected to launch in 2014.

    Written by Sharon Gaudin04 Sept. 13 20:17
  • <i>New York Times</i> site hack shifts attention to registry locks

    One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say.

    Written by Jaikumar Vijayan29 Aug. 13 10:12
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