Tag: politics
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We shouldn’t forget those most vulnerable in our digital world
The new UK government has passed a far-reaching surveillance law . The new US government has stripped privacy rights from non-citizens. Surely, those who have warned about the threat of Western intelligence agencies have a reason to feel vindicated. In the post-Snowden era of IT security, many improvements to technology have made it a lot…
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We shouldn’t forget those most vulnerable in our digital world
The new UK government has passed a far-reaching surveillance law . The new US government has stripped privacy rights from non-citizens. Surely, those who have warned about the threat of Western intelligence agencies have a reason to feel vindicated. In the post-Snowden era of IT security, many improvements to technology have made it a lot…
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China-Tibet row spills over into malware attacks
Both sides of debate targeted to spread malicious code. With the political row over China’s involvement in Tibet continuing to make the headlines, cybercriminals have been as quick as ever to exploit the public interest in the topic, using the story as a hook for several malware attacks. The first was as wave of SQL-based…
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Estonian websites suffer wave of DoS attacks
Baltic republic accuses Russia of cyber-warfare. A wave of denial of service (DoS) attacks on Estonian websites has prompted the Estonian government to accuse its neighbour of waging cyber-warfare and to call for better response mechanisms to cyber attacks within the EU. Massive DoS attacks have been affecting Estonian websites for the last three weeks…