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More of Google’s Project Loon internet balloons will crash into U.S. backyards soon

June 3, 2015/in Computer Security

The Washington Post pointed out this week that the head of Google’s Project Loon, the initiative that sends large balloons flying around the world to beam internet signals to people on the ground, admitted in an MIT Review interview published earlier this week that the company is planning to launch the project in the U.S.

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Network World Colin Neagle

China invests in cyberwarfare to compete with U.S. military – Washington Times

April 3, 2015/in Internet Security

Washington Times

China invests in cyberwarfare to compete with U.S. military
Washington Times
According to U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, the major increase in Chinese efforts was set off after the Chinese concluded that their military cyberprograms lag behind U.S. strategic cyberwarfare efforts in significant ways. Details …
China investing heavily in cyberwarfare programs to compete with USDaily News & Analysis

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NSA or Not, Surveillance Malware Endangers Internet – U.S. News & World Report

March 8, 2015/in Computer Security

U.S. News & World Report

NSA or Not, Surveillance Malware Endangers Internet
U.S. News & World Report
Hackers code-named the Equation group are said to have infected computers in 30 countries with “highly sophisticated” spyware that resembles code and techniques used by the Flame virus and the Stuxnet worm designed by the NSA and Israel for use …
How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at lastArs Technica
Russian Researchers Uncover Sophisticated NSA MalwareEFF
Beyond Stuxnet and Flame: Equation 'most advanced' cybercriminal gang …ZDNet
V3.co.uk –Computerworld –BizTek Mojo
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ISIS apparently hacks U.S. Central Command Twitter account

January 13, 2015/in Mobile Security

The U.S. Central Command Twitter account was hacked or at least defaced today apparently by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), posting tweets that threaten families of U.S. soldiers and claiming to have hacked into military PCs.

“We won’t stop!” one tweet read, “We know everything about you, your wives and children.”

“ISIS is already here,” read another, “we are in your PCs, in each military base.”

Initially the hackers replaced the Central Command avatar with a black and white graphic of a person with their head wrapped in a keffiyeh with the words, “CyberCaliphate” and “I love you ISIS,” next to it.

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Network World Tim Greene

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