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New WikiLeaks dump builds confidence in our side’s hacking skills – Hot Air

New WikiLeaks dump builds confidence in our side's hacking skills
Hot Air
Assuming, of course, that all the infamous hacking behavior really was real bad guys like China, Russia or North Korea and not our own good bad guys pretending to be bad, bad guys hacking our side. Apparently, see, there are electronic fingerprints

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Cybersecurity Researchers Are Hunted from All Sides – Motherboard

Cybersecurity Researchers Are Hunted from All Sides
Motherboard
His team was actively involved in analyzing Flame, a cyber weapon from the same family as Stuxnet, also aimed at attacking Middle Eastern countries, especially Iran. This sophisticated malware was, again, allegedly developed by the US and Israel, the …

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Google, Yahoo fighting on both sides of municipal broadband debate

Last week the Internet Association submitted an official statement (PDF) urging the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in proposed state-level laws that seek to prohibit municipalities from deploying and maintaining their own broadband networks.

The Internet Association is essentially a lobbying organization that says it is “dedicated to advancing public policy solutions to strengthen and protect internet freedom, foster innovation and economic growth and empower users.” It supports net neutrality, patent reforms that could eradicate patent trolls, and the protection of privacy of internet users, among many other causes in the technology industry. The group boasts a long list of very high-profile technology companies, including Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Reddit, and PayPal.  

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Network World Colin Neagle