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NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software — NEWS The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former NSA-employee Edward Snowden and seen by this newspaper, prove this.
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N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power — WASHINGTON — Officials at the National Security Agency, intent on maintaining its dominance in intelligence collection, pledged last year to push to expand its surveillance powers, according to a top secret strategy document.
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Katie Couric Deal to Become Yahoo's “Global News Anchor” Set to Be Announced Monday — As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to do a high-profile online interview show on its home page.
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Fed up with slow and pricey Internet, cities start demanding gigabit fiber — Slow Internet speeds and a lack of competitive pressure on Internet providers is a fact of life in communities throughout America. We've seen that competition can make a difference, notably with the entry …
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Photographer wins $1.2 million from companies that took pictures off Twitter — (Reuters) - A federal jury on Friday ordered two media companies to pay $1.2 million to a freelance photojournalist for their unauthorized use of photographs he posted to Twitter.
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Like minds meet online and then travel to meet offline. Will this reorganize the world? — Software Is Reorganizing the World — For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality … | Jacob Hoffman-Andrews / Twitter Engineering Blog: |
Twitter enables forward secrecy to avoid snooping, joining Google, Mozilla, and Facebook — Forward Secrecy at Twitter — As part of our continuing effort to keep our users' information as secure as possible, we're happy to announce that we recently enabled forward secrecy for traffic on twitter.com …
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Touch ID Patent Applications Show Details Behind ‘Secure Enclave’ and iPhone 5s Implementation — A pair of patent applications related to Apple's new flagship iPhone feature Touch ID shed some new light on how the fingerprint sensor itself works, as well as the “Secure Enclave” … | Lee Mathews / Geek.com: |
Excess of stolen identities leads to massive price cuts, US ID costs just $25 — Cybercriminals have been busy over the past couple of years, and it's starting to show. Digital identity inventory levels have never been higher, and prices have never been lower. It's a great time to be a black market buyer.
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AeroFS emerges from stealth, syncs files without storing on external servers that governments can access — As Customers Seek Privacy, AeroFS Emerges With Stealthy File Sharing Software — Air Computing Inc., which is doing business as AeroFS, emerged publicly Friday with software … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Microsoft sells 1 million Xbox One units in its first 24 hours — Microsoft has announced a successful Xbox One launch with over 1 million units sold worldwide in the first 24 hours. That roughly matches Sony's PlayStation 4, which also topped 1 million in its first day.
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Google+ iOS app gets full resolution photo and video backups in iOS 7, new notification tray — Google has updated its Google+ app for iOS with a full-resolution backups of photo and video, a new design for the notification tray, and the ability to share your location.
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