Hacker group targets Skype social media accounts

Computerworld Security: January 03, 2014
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Hacker group targets Skype social media accounts

Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group calling
itself the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks.
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Darlene Storm: Court says no stinking suspicion required for gov't to search devices at U.S. border


U.S. border agents don't need any stinking reasonable suspicion to search
laptops, cell phones or other electronic devices at the border, according to a
federal judge who tossed out a case challenging such electronic gadget searches
as unconstitutional. Although the judge ruled that such "rare"
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border . . . meaning just don't take any gadgets with you.


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Escaped spammer back in federal slammer

Jeffrey Kilbride, convicted of charges stemming from the CAN-SPAM Act, was
returned to federal custody a day after he reportedly broke out of a
minimum-security prison.
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Will teens be scared off by Snapchat hack? Probably not

Snapchat, a social media company with a popular photo-messaging app, has taken a
blow with a recent hack affecting 4.6 million users.
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Lawsuit charges that Facebook scanned private messages

Facebook has been accused of intercepting private messages of its users to
provide data to marketers, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in a
federal court in California.
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ACLU appeals judge's decision to throw out NSA lawsuit

The American Civil Liberties Union will appeal a judge's decision to throw out
the civil liberties group's lawsuit challenging U.S. National Security Agency
surveillance.
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Snapchat, feeling heat from hack, to let users opt out of compromised feature

Snapchat, reeling from a recent hack that exposed millions of user names and
partially redacted phone numbers of its members, will now let users back out of
the feature that hackers abused.
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FireEye pays $1B for Mandiant to help users stamp out cyber attacks

FireEye, a major enterprise security company, is hoping to better shield its
customers from cyberattacks through its acquisition of privately held Mandiant
for nearly $1 billion.
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NSA looks to crack all encryption with quantum computer, report says

The U.S. National Security Agency is attempting to build a new breed of
supercomputer that theoretically could make short work of cracking most keys
used for encrypted communications.
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