On September 5th, 2016 with 105 comments
An anonymous reader writes:During an address to reporters at the G-20 international summit in China, President Obama stated that he'd like to prevent an "arms...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 66 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In a case of sloppy automation run amok, Warner Bros' copyright enforcement contractor -- Vobile -- issued takedown notices for...
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On September 5th, 2016 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader shares a TorrentFreak report: Swedish Internet service provider Bahnhof is launching a direct attack against Spridningskollen, the group...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 79 comments
"Tor hasn't changed, it's the world that's changed," says Aaron Johnson, the lead researcher on a 2013 paper which reported that 80% of Tor users could be...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 97 comments
The New York Times continues their coverage of the commercial spytech industry, noting its services "are in higher demand now that companies like Apple,...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 519 comments
Finland is getting ready to launch their first pilot program with a Universal Basic Income -- one of several countries which are now testing the concept. An...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 85 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 102 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo quotes a report from Bloomberg: John McAfee, the creator of the eponymous antivirus computer software system, sued Intel...
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On September 4th, 2016 with 155 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader mspohr writes:
The Guardian has an opinion piece by Richard Stallman which argues that we should be able to pay for news anonymously....
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On September 2nd, 2016 with 374 comments
The FBI released 58-pages documents on Friday detailing its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of...
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On September 1st, 2016 with 34 comments
C3ntaur writes: The world has seen the most unsettling attack yet resulting from the so-called Rowhammer exploit, which flips individual bits in computer...
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On August 31st, 2016 with 72 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: This past week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandated testing for the Zika virus at all U.S....
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On August 30th, 2016 with 197 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A long-standing lawsuit holding Twitter responsible for the rise of ISIS got new life today, as plaintiffs...
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On August 30th, 2016 with 66 comments
Millions of Europeans will have to do with throttling on BitTorrent. The Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communication (BEREC) published its...
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On August 29th, 2016 with 72 comments
Kim Dotcom has been granted the right to livestream his extradition appeal on YouTube. The appeal hearing began Monday, but will be livestreamed tomorrow...
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On August 29th, 2016 with 47 comments
The drone industry is expected to expand dramatically in the coming months and years with the passing of a new rule (PDF) that makes it easier to become a...
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On August 29th, 2016 with 26 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court in California on Monday dismissed a U.S. government lawsuit that accused ATT Inc of...
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On August 29th, 2016 with 26 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Someone broke into Opera's servers. The Opera browser has a handy feature for synchronizing browsing data across different devices....
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On August 28th, 2016 with 76 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike quotes an article from Fortune: The controversial entrepreneur Kim Dotcom said last month that he was preparing to...
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On August 28th, 2016 with 172 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader reports that the European Commission "is planning reforms that would allow media outlets to request payment from search engines...
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On August 27th, 2016 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Stack: The government of Japan will create an institute to train employees to counter cyber attacks. The...
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On August 27th, 2016 with 69 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: In the federal court for the Eastern District of New York, where all Malibu Media cases have been stayed...
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On August 27th, 2016 with 19 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
Security expert Anthony Zboralski posted on HERT a social engineering attack for Tinder that lets you perform a...
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On August 25th, 2016 with 110 comments
A total of three men are said to be operators of file-sharing site KickassTorrents (KAT), according to U.S. prosecutors. Last month, federal authorities...
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On August 25th, 2016 with 29 comments
Presto Vivace quotes a report from FedScoop: "Cybersecurity issues must be addressed during the design phase for the entire 5G ecosystem, including devices....
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On August 25th, 2016 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Reportedly, in a national campaign aided by more than 30,000 airwave monitors, in over past six months, more than 500 sets of...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 242 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Gizmodo: "Two Harvard undergraduates have created a service called Legalist that uses what they call 'data-backed...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 194 comments
Hewlett-Packard started laying off workers in 2012, before it separated into HP Inc. and HP Enterprise last year. The company has continued to cut thousands of...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 83 comments
An anonymous reader shares a TorrentFreak report: In recent months CloudFlare has been called out repeatedly for offering its services to known pirate sites,...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 59 comments
Singapore is planning to cut off web access for public servants as a defence against potential cyber attack, Reuters reports. The local government's move has...
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