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On March 24th, 2016 with 130 comments
An anonymous reader writes with news from TorrenFreak that a Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in the UK has charged a man for operating proxy sites and...
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On March 23rd, 2016 with 156 comments
mrspoonsi writes with this excerpt from the BBC: Navinder Sarao, the trader accused of helping to trigger the U.S. "flash crash," can be extradited to face...
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On March 22nd, 2016 with 1011 comments
SomeoneFromBelgium writes: This morning there was a double bomb explosion in Brussels, Belgium. In the National Airport entrance hall an estimated 13 people...
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On March 22nd, 2016 with 16 comments
v3rgEz writes: Looking for a new office pool to get in on, but can't tell a layup from a low post? MuckRock has launched a FOIA bracket that pits 64 agencies...
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On March 21st, 2016 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Australian government has announced that Bitcoin and other digital currencies would no longer be subject to Goods and Services...
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On March 20th, 2016 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader writes: BitQuick, a US-based Bitcoin trader has announced that it will shut down its platform for up to 2 to 4 weeks following a...
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On March 19th, 2016 with 60 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Tanvir Hassan Zoha, 34, security researcher, has gone missing just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of...
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On March 18th, 2016 with 162 comments
AmiMoJo writes: In the summer of 2013, secure e-mail service Lavabit was ordered by a federal judge to provide real-time e-mail monitoring of one of its users....
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On March 18th, 2016 with 163 comments
Esther Schindler writes: They're trying, honest they are. In 2016 alone, writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux; integrated...
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On March 18th, 2016 with 16 comments
itwbennett writes: CSO Online's Steve Ragan reports that dozens of Russian banks were targeted this week by meticulous attackers who formatted a Word document...
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On March 18th, 2016 with 139 comments
Earthquake Retrofit writes: A Silicon Valley startup called SmartCar in Mountain View, California signed up for Comcast Internet service. After hearing Comcast...
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On March 17th, 2016 with 73 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A test of seven OEM laptops running Windows has shown consistent privacy and security issues, including an interesting revelation...
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On March 17th, 2016 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers have devised an algorithm for identifying people who post on Twitter while drunk at home, using both geolocation tags...
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On March 17th, 2016 with 49 comments
Mickeycaskill writes: A preliminary ruling from a European Court of Justice Advocate General has said it is not reasonable for owners of public Wi-Fi hotspots...
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On March 16th, 2016 with 32 comments
itwbennett writes: In a notification letter dated March 10, American Express warned cardholders that their account information might've been exposed after a...
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On March 16th, 2016 with 110 comments
McGruber writes with NBC's report that Washington, DC's Metrorail system has been completely shut down for at least 29 hours, so crews can check 600...
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On March 16th, 2016 with 50 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Indian government is using a loophole to fast-track legislation to allow federal agencies access to its database of 1 billion...
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On March 14th, 2016 with 177 comments
An anonymous reader writes: For the past two and a half months, Canadian law professor Michael
Geist has been writing a daily series on the trouble with the
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On March 13th, 2016 with 205 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Do you use YouTube with Adblock Plus? Some users have been getting the following message instead of ads: "An error occurred. Please...
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On March 13th, 2016 with 45 comments
New submitter tlambert writes: Unknown persons stole Bangladesh Bank transfer credentials for payments via the international banking system, and then proceeded...
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On March 12th, 2016 with 43 comments
Burz writes: Invisible Things Labs has released Qubes OS 3.1. Some of the features recently introduced into this secure concept, single-user desktop OS are...
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On March 11th, 2016 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Russian Ministry of Finance has announced an amendment to the country's criminal code which will impose prison sentences of up...
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On March 11th, 2016 with 125 comments
whoever57 writes: A California jury in one of the cases between Synopsys and Atoptech found copyright infringement in Atoptech's use of the "Primetime...
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On March 10th, 2016 with 131 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Bank of England is working with researchers at University College London to design a Bitcoin clone of its own that can be...
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On March 10th, 2016 with 158 comments
New submitter MythicalMan writes: During the search and seizure in the Lula Institute last Friday, [Brazil's] Federal Police threatened a computer technician...
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On March 9th, 2016 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Nathan Blecharcyzk, one of the co-founders at home rental platform Airbnb, has detailed the company's interest in blockchain...
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On March 9th, 2016 with 86 comments
lightbox32 writes with this excerpt from MSN News confirming what many people suspected with the proliferation of military and law-enforcement drones would...
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On March 9th, 2016 with 66 comments
itwbennett writes: In remedy for the 2014 data breach that included the theft of data pertaining to about 56 million payment cards, as well as 53 million email...
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On March 8th, 2016 with 173 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Dutch Privacy Authority made it known today that companies are not allowed to gather their employees' health data from wearable...
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On March 8th, 2016 with 176 comments
New submitter Mr. Competence writes: The U.S. Supreme court has declined to review a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court declaring that 'the Batmobile is a...
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