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Justice Department Clears Google in Wi-Fi Sniffing Scandal
28 April 2012
The Justice Department has cleared Google of wiretapping violations in connection to the company secretly intercepting Americans’ data on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers for two years ending in 2010, Google said. “The DOJ had access to Google employees, reviewed the key documents, and concluded that it would not pursue a case for violation of the Wiretap [...]
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Teen Sues Over Facebook Bullying
28 April 2012
Fake Facebook page set up for Alex Boston with a profile photo distorted to make her look bloated. A teenager in Georgia has decided to take things into her own hands after her school and police said they could do nothing about the classmates bullying her on Facebook. Fourteen-year-old Alex Boston and her parents are [...]
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House Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Measure CISPA
28 April 2012
Photo: deltaMike/Flickr The House on Thursday approved cybersecurity legislation that privacy groups have decried as a threat to civil liberties. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, sponsored by Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), passed on a vote of 248 to 168. Its goal is a more secure internet, but [...]
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Feds Seize 36 Criminal Carding Sites
28 April 2012
Three dozen criminal carding sites were seized on Wednesday by the FBI, as part of a two-year investigation conducted with authorities in Europe and elsewhere. The sites were set up as automated vending carts to sell hundreds of thousands of stolen bank-card and bank-account data. Authorities claim that more than 2.5 million “items of personal [...]
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VMWare Source Code Leak Follows Alleged Hack of Chinese Defense Contractor
28 April 2012
Photo: Jason Allen Source code belonging to VMWare has leaked to the internet after apparently being stolen by a hacker who claims to have obtained it from a Chinese firm’s network. The source code belongs to VMWare’s ESX virtual machine software product, a popular tool for creating and operating virtual computing environments. The code was [...]
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TSA Screeners Watched Suitcases of Drugs Pass Through Airport
28 April 2012
Photo: Joe Schlabotnik/Flickr Four Transportation Security Administration airport screeners have been arrested on charges of reaping thousands of dollars in a plot to allow suitcases filled with drugs to pass through security screening checkpoints, the authorities said Wednesday. The four — two current and two former TSA screeners — were indicted on charges (.pdf) of conspiring [...]
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