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Appeals court rules Americans have no legal recourse if hacked by foreign governments

March 18, 2017/in Internet Security

Put aside the matter of Russian interference in our presidential election to instead consider this scenario: If Vladimir Putin ordered his government-employed hackers to plant spyware on your personal computer – stealing all your data and even recording your Skype calls – you would have no access to any legal remedy in the U.S. court system.

Preposterous, you say?

That’s the law, according to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which yesterday upheld a lower court decision denying even a day in court to an American citizen who moved here from Ethiopia 30 years ago and was victimized by that country’s government in the exact fashion described above.

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McDonald’s Twitter account hacked, blasts Trump

March 16, 2017/in Computer Security

A hacker used McDonald’s Twitter account to attack President … Following the hacked tweet, the phrase Big Mac was trending on the social network, in apparent reference to the exchange. McDonald’s is the latest Twitter acount to fall victim to hijackers.
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Pence used private mail for state work as governor, account was hacked

March 3, 2017/in Computer Security

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence reportedly used a private email account to transact state business when he was governor of Indiana, and his AOL account was hacked once, according to a news report.

Emails released to the Indianapolis Star following a public records request are said to show that Pence used his personal AOL account to communicate with his top advisers on issues ranging from security gates at the governor’s residence to the state’s response to terror attacks across the globe.

A hacker seems to have got access to his email account in June last year and sent a fake mail to people on the former governor’s contact list, claiming that Pence and his wife had been attacked on their way back to their hotel in the Philippines, according to the report. Pence subsequently changed his AOL account.

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Millions of cars vulnerable to entry with hacked Android connected car apps – Digital Trends

February 19, 2017/in Mobile Security

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Millions of cars vulnerable to entry with hacked Android connected car apps
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That's the message from researchers at Kapersky, a Russian security company, according to a report by Wired. Kapersky focused on breaking Android connected car apps, as iOS phones are apparently less easy to hack. The researchers discovered that …

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