"U.S. Hired Dictators’ Favorite Hackers"
July 6, 2015 | Shane Harris, The Daily Beast
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New documents reveal that a firm that helps authoritarian governments like Russia, and Saudi Arabia is also connected to the U.S. military’s burgeoning cyberwarfare apparatus.
"Video Game Teaches Online Security"
June 24, 2015 | Gary Singh, Metroactive
The San Jose Public Library was recently awarded a $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to develop an online project to help people understand privacy issues in the digital age. After recruiting student programmers from the SJSU Game Development Club and researchers from the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, the library came up with a working prototype.
"Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S."
June 11, 2015 | Peter Reford, Bloomberg Business
Plenty of adults wander the professional world hiding their ignorance about how computers work, a knowledge gap that can now be closed in a few hours. But in the modern workforce, to shun programming is to likely get left behind, and young learners have gotten the message.
"These Ex-Israeli Surveillance Agents Hijack Your Browser To Profit From Ads"
June 9, 2015 | Thomas Fox-Brewster, Forbes
At the start of last month, Google and Stanford University researchers released a report on a largely legal yet dubious practice in the advertising industry. It’s called ad injection.
"How China's 'Great Cannon' Works -- and Why We Should Be Worried"
June 5, 2015 | Nicholas Weaver, CNN
Readers may have heard of the "Great Firewall," the powerful filters that the People's Republic of China uses to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing the whole Internet. The Great Firewall monitors traffic entering and exiting China, and then disrupts prohibited content and connections.
"FCC's New Proposal Could Bridge the Digital Divide"
June 1, 2015 | Take Two, Southern California Public Radio
Today, much of your daily life can be done online. From filing your taxes, to applying for a job or even grocery shopping, it’s all online. But not everyone has access to the Internet.
"Crypto Flaws in Blockchain Android App Sent Bitcoins to the Wrong Address"
May 29, 2015 | Dan Goodin, Ars Technica
Blockchain, one of the Internet's most widely used Bitcoin wallets, has rushed out an update for its Android app after discovering critical cryptographic and programming flaws that can cause users to send digital coins to the wrong people with no warning.
"IRS Breach Highlights Weakness of "Knowledge-Based’ Security"
May 27, 2015 | Zach Noble, FCW
The compromise of 100,000 taxpayer accounts through the Get Transcript application on the IRS website were not random hacks, but the exploits of an already-publicized vulnerability -- known to security experts since at least March.
"'Deep Learning’ Will Soon Give Us Super-Smart Robots"
May 27, 2015 | Cade Metz, Wired
Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
"Is This the NSA’s Secret to Cracking Secure Comms?"
May 21, 2015 | Nicholas Weaver, The Daily Beast
U.S. cyberspies have all kinds of success breaking into supposedly encrypted messages. But how exactly the NSA pulled off this trick has remained a mystery.