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US Government to Blame for Ransomware Attack says Microsoft
Microsoft has hit out at the US government blaming its own data hacking teams for causing the outbreak of the Ransomware virus. They have also warned that this attack is ‘only the beginning’. Why is the US government to blame? Microsoft is asserting that the problem is due to a…
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US Government Backs Down from User Privacy Lawsuit Versus Twitter
A few days ago, its been reported that the US Government, specifically the Customs and Border Protection agency was demanding the identity of a specific user be revealed by Twitter through an administrative summons, citing a federal law granting border officials the power to investigate importation taxes. This user has…
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The Resale Cost Of Stolen Data
Crime doesn’t pay. Cyber crime on the other hand pays handsomely according to the current resale price tag associated with the data breach, which led to 4.2 million American Federal data of employees being transferred from the Office of Personal Management to as yet unknown source. Analysis has identified places within…
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Donating to Snowden Now Illegal in the US; Guilty Parties Can Have Assets Seized
The White House has issued an emergency executive order that effectively prevents US citizens from donating money to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for fear of having their assets seized. The order is designed to choke funds for “malicious cyber-enabled activities” launched by persons outside of the United States. Though the…
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Google Released WikiLeaks E-Mails to US Government
Three years after formal requests, Google has admitted that it released e-mails and other digital data own by WikiLeaks staff to the US government, after being served with a secret warrant from a federal judge. Google revealed details of the warrant to WikiLeaks on Christmas Eve. Now, WikiLeaks , through…
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U.S. Department of Energy to Spend $425 Million on Supercomputers
The US Government’s Department of Energy has announced it is to invest $425 million to build two supercomputers, which, when built, will be the fastest computers in the world. The ultimate aim is to research science projects, including nuclear weapons. The two computers, named Summit and Sierra, will be installed…
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World Under Water Google Maps Hack Is Both Cool And Frightening
The US Government launched their National Climate Assessment Report this week, it showed that all regions of the country are experiencing the affects of climate change. Following on from this, the team at Carbon Story have launched their World Under Water campaign, a mod for Google Maps that let’s you…
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American Military Funding “Self-Destructing” Electronic Development Projects
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, has provided IBM with a $3.5 million contract to work on its “vanishing programmable resources project” (VARP). The BBC reports that this project is looking to develop a class of transient electronics that can be destroyed by remote control functions. The electronics…
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US Government Pointing Fingers At Edward Snowden’s ‘Accomplices’, The Reporters
Given the news surfaced from former NSA analyst, Edward Snowden, it seems that U.S. officials are proving to be desperate, having one of their representatives stating that journalists are Edward Snowden’s ‘accomplices’. The U.S. officials are still attempting to reason with Snowden and his continuous espionage disclosures from his former…
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Anonymous Hackers Break Into US Government Computers
The FBI has warned that the activist group, Anonymous, are in a campaign to exploit and breach sensitive US government information since last year. They appear to have been successful in secretly accessed US government computers throughout multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information. The hackers exploited a flaw in the…
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