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Ex-vice admiral gets 14 months for espionage
China Post Ko, the former deputy commander of the R.O.C. Navy before retiring in 2003, is reportedly one of the highest-ranked retired military officers caught spying for China to date. Former Army Maj. Gen. Lo Hsien-che (羅賢哲) was sentenced to life … Retired navy brass to serve 14 months in jail for espionage |
During the first three months of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, the private mail server she used for sending emails was unencrypted and unauthenticated using digital certificates, according to a study of her mail domain by security firm Venafi.
That means that during those three months the server – clintonemail.com – would be open to eavesdropping and compromise, the company says. The security issues are troubling because now former Secretary of State Clinton has come under fire for using a private email server to conduct official business. Clinton has defended her private system and said it was secure.
The domain was registered before Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State Jan. 21, 2009, and the first certificate for it was registered in March 29, 2009, Venafi says, based on data it gathered using its new TrustNet service.
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The WireLurker malware that may have infected hundreds of thousands of Mac OS and iOS devices is exactly similar to a proof-of-concept attack Apple was warned about at the beginning of this year, according to the researcher who first publicly described such attacks.
The malware can siphon off data from iOS devices when they sync up with computers or are charged by computers via USB cables, but the potential for this type of attack can be much broader, says Tielei Wang, a researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology who presented a paper about such attacks at USENIX Security Symposium in August.
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Browser vulnerability caps rough few months for Android security
Network World Browser vulnerability caps rough few months for Android security. Related. Blackphone SSL security flaw was patched within days, says CEO · Five new threats to your mobile device security · magnatude exploit · Exposed: An inside look at the Magnitude … Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users Android security flaw affects millions of users Back-and-Forth With Google Led to Disclosure of Android Browser Flaw |