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Researchers discover Spoiled Onions: Evil Tor exit relays spying on Facebook users

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Tor, The Onion Router that helps protect users’ privacy, just can’t catch a break lately. First Microsoft remotely deleted Tor from Windows machines during an attempt to takedown the Sefnit botnet. Then the research paper, Spoiled Onions: Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays [pdf], explained how evil nodes in Russia were being used to spy on Facebook users as well as Tor users browsing other sites. Microsoft…
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300-pound crime-predicting mobile robot: Crime-preventing precog or ‘R2D2’s evil twin’?

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Imagine a five-foot-tall, 300-pound mobile robot, which has a striking resemblance to R2D2 and “can see, hear, feel and smell” as it predicts and prevents crime. But not everyone thinks the surveillance-machine on wheels is cute; in fact, Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, told The New York Times that the Knightscope K5 Autonomous Data Machine “is like R2D2’s…
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Stuxnet’s evil twin highlights the very real threat of cyber-warfare – SiliconANGLE (blog)

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Stuxnet's evil twin highlights the very real threat of cyber–warfare
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Knowledge of the deadly Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc with Iran's nuclear infrastructure has been public for more than three years now, but cybersecurity experts continue to stumble upon new revelations – with the latest one being that Stuxnet had an …
Stuxnet creators defined 21st century warfareNetwork World
Stuxnet evolution: NSA input turned stealth weapon into internet-roaming spywareRT

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Free to Play Takes an Evil Turn: Passively Using Your Phone to Mine Bitcoins … – Touch Arcade

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Free to Play Takes an Evil Turn: Passively Using Your Phone to Mine Bitcoins …
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Treating players like a botnet you can abuse also seems to be setting a dangerous precedent, and one that I hope doesn't catch on. [via PocketGamer.biz] …. I can't speak for Android, but this isn't how iOS apps work. To run in the background and …

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