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US Census Bureau says breach didn’t expose household data

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The U.S. Census Bureau said a data breach early last week did not expose survey data it collects on households and businesses.

The leak came from a database belonging to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, which collects audit reports from government agencies and other organizations spending federal grants, wrote John H. Thompson, the Census Bureau’s director, on Friday.

The exposed information included the names of people who submitted information, addresses, phone numbers, user names and other data, he wrote.

A group calling itself Anonymous Operations posted a link on Twitter leading to four files. The cyberattack was allegedly in protest of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, two pending trade agreements that have been widely criticized.

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Android Backups Could Expose Wi-Fi Passwords to NSA – TechNewsDaily

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Android Backups Could Expose Wi-Fi Passwords to NSA
TechNewsDaily
[The 5 Best Android Security Apps]. The Google representative did not specify whether the data was encrypted on Google's servers, but added that disabling backup on an Android device would cause all backups to be erased. Lee noted that since Google at …

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Anti-Anonymous hacker threatens to expose them – msnbc.com

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Anti-Anonymous hacker threatens to expose them
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"The short answer: possible: yes, likely: yes," said Georgia Weidman, an Android security researcher with Bulb Security LLC, in an email exchange. "Impressive: maybe, maybe not." "I'm inclined to believe he's done what he says he's done," Barrett Brown …

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Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army (Technology Review)

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Technology Review:
Undercover Researchers Expose Chinese Internet Water Army  —  An undercover team of computer scientists reveals the practices of people who are paid to post on websites  —  In China, paid posters are known as the Internet Water Army because they are ready and willing to ‘flood’ the internet for whoever is willing to pay.

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