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Panelists at Penn Law event suggest different measures against foreign cyber interference

  1. Panelists at Penn Law event suggest different measures against foreign cyber interference  The Daily Pennsylvanian
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Man who hijacked HBO’s satellite signal 30 years ago would face far different fate today

On April 27, 1986, a Florida man with workplace access to a satellite transmission dish – and a financial beef with HBO — pulled off the kind of audacious stunt that were it to happen today would likely land him in prison for a long, long time.

From a 2011 Buzzblog post:

John MacDougall, then 25, was the lonely pamphleteer of lore, only instead of paper and ink he was armed with a 30-foot transmission dish, an electronic keyboard, and a burning objection to HBO’s decision in 1986 to begin scrambling its satellite signal and charging viewers $ 12.95 a month.

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Same battle, different field – SC Magazine


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Same battle, different field
SC Magazine
In the U.K., around 100,000 new pieces of malware are introduced every day. It can only be a matter of time before an attack against an entire nation's energy sector manifests itself.” Examples include Stuxnet, Disttrack/Shamoon (targeting Saudi Aramco

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Apple iOS and Android security worries the same, yet different – FierceMobileIT


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Apple iOS and Android security worries the same, yet different
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Take your pick: Apple iOS or Android. Either one is a risky proposition, but they expose users to different security threats. That is the conclusion of the latest research by Marble's Mobile Security Lab, which looked at 14 leading mobile security threats.
Marble Mobile Security: Android, iOS Equally Vulnerable to AttacksThe VAR Guy
Marble Mobile Security Labs Report: Apple iOS and Android Mobile Devices GlobeNewswire (press release)
iOS Safer Than Android? Maybe NotPC Magazine
Macworld UK
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