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Julian Assange Has His Arrest Warrant Appeal Turned Down
Julian Assange Julian Assange, the founder of the website Wikileaks, had a date with the UK courts in regards to appealing his arrest warrant. Currently, in a form of exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he was hoping to be able to leave without finding the police waiting for him…
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New NSA Windows Hacking Tool Leaks
Back in May, the WannaCry ransomware decimated millions of Windows PC around the world. Later, a similar worm – dubbed EternalRocks – compromised a load more Windows machines. Hacker group ShadowBrokers released WannaCry and EternalRocks – both stolen NSA hacking tools – promising more to come. Now, it seems ShadowBrokers…
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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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China Make Online News Regulations Tighter
The Chinese Government has announced new regulations which will place further sanctions and restrictions on its online news content. Any organisation wishing to publish news in China must have a license and senior editors must be approved by the Chinese government. This legislation will bring online news companies into line…
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Tinder Investigating After 40,000 Pictures Taken From Site
Tinder is investigating an incident in which over 40,000 user facial pictures were downloaded by a programmer and shared on the internet. The data obtained by the programmer is now offline, however, it was mostly thought to have affected users based in the California region (although activity outside this area is…
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Microsoft Patched NSA Hack on Global Banks Before it was Leaked
Microsoft has announced that the NSA Global Banking leak released earlier this week (which reportedly exposed flaws in Windows security) had been fixed before the leak had even been issued. The leak reportedly exposed flaws within Window security which allowed the NSA to monitor the Global Bank, which by proxy…
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US Government Successfully Hacks the Global Banking System
SHADOW BROKERS – an online hacking group, has released documentation appearing to prove that the NSA created technology capable of breaking the security of the Global Banking System. The security weaknesses and tools to exploit, reported to be worth over $2m, were released online and if true, could implicate the…
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Intelligence Report Suggests Edward Snowden Could be a Spy
The talk of Edward Snowden is so well known that it has even been turned into a biopic, eponymously titled “Snowden”: the former NSA employee stole confidential documents from the US intelligence agency, released them to journalists from Hong Kong, and fled to Russia, where he currently resides under amnesty.…
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for US Government
In a staggering revelation today, a new report has surfaced regarding the struggling tech firm Yahoo. According to the revelations by former employees, in 2015, the company built a custom software program to scan all of their user emails. More critically, the move was done at the behest of a classified…
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NSA Hackers Rickrolled Using Bitcoin Addresses
Earlier this week, a team of hackers leaked information on cyber weapons that were linked to the NSA. The team hoped to raise lots of cash by offering to release even more information in exchange for Bitcoins, unfortunately for them, it didn’t go as planned. Fortunately for us, we think…
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Snowden Blames Russia for NSA Hack
Shock news broke last night that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was hacked, and that the group responsible was selling the US-funded malware that it stole for one million Bitcoins. According to Edward Snowden, who has quite the famous history with the NSA, the group, who call themselves The…
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Group Claims to Have Hacked the NSA
A group of hackers claimed to have compromised the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) cyber-attack department, in possibly the most high-profile online incursion of its kind, and is selling the hacking tools it stole from the intelligence agency’s systems. According to files dumped on Github, the hackers, calling themselves “The…
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