NSA document leaker Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia

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NSA document leaker Edward Snowden seeks asylum in Russia

Putin says Snowden must stop harming U.S. interests, but Russia unlikely to send him back

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Scope of NSA’s phone data snooping is ‘breathtaking’

Although U.S. government officials said the NSA’s efforts to secretly collect phone records of millions of Verizon customers is nothing new, reports about its size confirmed long-standing fears among privacy and civil rights advocates.

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Private retaliation in cyberspace a ‘remarkably bad idea’

Despite the growing threat of state-sponsored cyberattacks launched from China and other countries, U.S companies should not be allowed to fight back on their own, security experts say.

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U.S. urged to let companies ‘hack-back’ at IP cyber thieves

U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property.

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Chinese hackers master art of lying low

China’s remarkable success in infiltrating U.S. government, military and corporate networks in recent years shouldn’t be seen as a sign that the country is gaining on the U.S. lead in cybertechnology, security experts say. They’re just very persistent …

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Bank security weaknesses led to cyber looting of $45M from ATMs

Alberto Yusi Lajud Pena, found dead in the Dominican Republic two weeks ago, was the leader of the New York cell of an international gang of cyber thieves that authorities allege stole a staggering $45 million from ATM machines around the world.

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Chinese hackers master the art of lying in wait

The remarkable success that Chinese state-sponsored groups have had in infiltrating U.S. government, military and corporate networks in recent years should not be mistaken as a sign that China is gaining technical superiority over the U.S. in cyberspac…

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Pentagon accuses China of cyberattacks on U.S military, business targets

Chinese cyberespionage activities are fueling a rapid modernization of the country’s defense and high tech industries, the Pentagon said in an unusually candid assessment of China’s military and security developments last year.

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Security tools can’t keep hackers at bay

Credit card data of customers of Schnucks supermarkets was exposed for months in a breach that was not closed until weeks after a card processing company issued an alert about fraudulent activity. Insider (registration required)

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Breached dam data poses no threat to public, Army says

A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today downplayed the significance of a recent incident of unauthorized access to a database containing potentially sensitive information on thousands of high hazard dams across the country.

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