Saturday's Top 100 Breaking Military, Defense & Security News, Headlines & Stories
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The longest serving Yeoman Warder began the installation of hundreds of thousands of ceramic poppies in the moat at the Tower of London today. The installation entitled ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ and designed by ceramic artist P...
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A trainee engineer who has been working on Royal Navy submarines and warships in Plymouth has been named the Ministry of Defence's Apprentice of the Year. Emma Quigley is one of few female engineering apprentices and has spent the last t...
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Military to Education is a new programme from Skillforce, a charity, designed to give service leavers the skills to teach and mentor. Veterans will be given the skills needed to plan and deliver training for young people. Charlotte Cross...
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A new exhibition in York has opened that shows the surprising history of chocolate in warfare. Hannah King went to find out how cocoa helped morale during the First World War. Details about the exhibition can be found here - http://yorks...
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The Imperial War Museum in London will reopen this weekend after being closed in total for twelve months while the historic landmark underwent a major facelift. £40 million has been spent on its first significant update since the 1980s. ...
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A new fighter aircraft to which the Ministry of Defence is committed has been ruled out of appearing at the Farnborough air show. A grounding of the F-35 by the Americans following an engine fire in Florida last month meant the combat ai...
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Four decades on and Cyprus remains divided by the buffer zone created to keep the peace between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. In the second of her special reports to mark the anniversary Carla Parter goes on patrol w...
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Julian Evans went to Bisley to find out how the Battle Back program is using Adaptive Shooting to help injured Service Personnel.
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Prince William has launched a new initiative to preserve some of the nation's most important war memorials. The Fields in Trust Centenary Fields programme aims to safeguard the memorial parks, playing fieldsand other open spaces. The fir...
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Nominations have opened for this years Military and Civilian Health Partnership Awards. They are an opportunity to recognise medical care, and working relationships over the past decade while the UK's Armed Forces have been in Afghanista...
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The new joint strike fighter could yet make an appearance at Farnborough this week after US authorities approved the F35's airworthiness. All the planes had been grounded because of an engine fire. Will Inglis reports on day two of one o...
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The Right Honourable Michael Fallon has been confirmed as the new Defence Secretary. Previously Mr Fallon was Minister for Business and Enterprise, Minister of State for Energy and Minister for Portsmouth. He has been the Conservative MP...
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Commemorations have taken place across Cyprus marking the military coup which took place on the island 40 years ago. This morning, sirens were sounded to mark the moment the president Archbishop Makarios was ousted from power in 1974. Fi...
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The Royal Irish Regiment will soon take on a new role. After a decade of airborne operations as part of 16 Air Assault Brigade they will become the British Army's first fully trained light protective mobility regiment. Fiona Weir reports...
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The grave of one of the very first Victoria Cross recipients discovered just two years ago has been given a special rededication service thanks to soldiers from 9 Regiment RLC, and the VC Trust. Shirley Swain has the story.
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Nearly 24 hours later, there's a consensus about the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17: It's a game-changer for the conflict in Ukraine . The crash, which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called "a terrorist act," thrust t...
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Find out about the armed forces covenant veterans accommodation fund and how to apply.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a ground operation into the Gaza Strip late on 17 July after its use of stand-off weaponry during the first 10 days of Operation 'Protective Edge' failed to destroy the underground infrastructure ...
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Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday , killing all of the 298 passengers and crew on board. The plane, which was traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was carrying primarily Dutch citizens, as w...
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The shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine stunned the world. But in this incident, answers are emerging much more quickly than they did in the still unsolved disappearance of Malaysia Flight MH370 earlier this y...
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Doctors and experts at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center want health care providers to try treating sleep disorders caused by traumatic brain injury with some common sense such as a quiet bedroom and staying away from coffee o...
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During an interview on the Fox News “Dealing with the Enemy” broadcast, former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie spoke out about Bergdahl and tough restrictions. The host of the broadcast introduced Higbie as a former Navy Seal who was punished, aft...
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Hillary Clinton sat down on "The "Charlie Rose Show" following Thursday's Malaysian Airlines plane crash in Ukraine and argued it was "obviously" an anti-aircraft missile that shot it down. She said Russian insurgents were "probably" res...
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Retired Marine General James Mattis has some advice for men and women looking to inspire and motivate employees in the corporate world: Lead by example. It's a lesson Mattis learned over more than 40 years of leading troops, which culmin...
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A group of former prostitutes has filed a lawsuit against the South Korean government seeking more than $1.2 million in compensation, alleging that it exercised significant control over their activities, according to a report in Japanese...
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A commercial aircraft operated by Malaysia Airlines crashed with nearly 300 passengers on board while flying over the contested Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on 17 July. As of this writing it was unclear what caused the incident, but...
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Key Points There is growing evidence that Russian-backed Ukrainian separatists were responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 017 over Ukraine A Buk (SA-11 'Gadfly') system captured by the separatists may have been responsi...
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NATO sources say the circumstances of the crash of Malaysian Airlines’ Flight MH17 in east Ukraine on 17 July point strongly to a sophisticated missile attack. “It seems pretty obvious that this was a missile attack,” a...
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Four months before opening at Le Bourget, the EURONAVAL professional exhibition, exclusively dedicated to naval defence and maritime security, is in a position to make the 2014 edition a particularly successful international event. In th...
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Footage of first flight. BAE’s systems new stealth UAV - Taranis has carried out second successful test flight.During this flight, Taranis flew only in stealth configuration making it virtually impossible to radar.The second flight was u...
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Unemployment fuels unrest and anger. Political instability tends to escalate in regions with lots of economic volatility and limited employment opportunities, particularly for young people. In a new presentation to clients, Deutsche Bank...
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Countries around the world are reeling in shock after a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was shot down over Eastern Ukraine Thursday , killing the 298 people on board. The event, which many think could signal a new elevation in the grow...
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American intelligence authorities believe a surface-to-air missile took down a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, a U.S.
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Find out about the British Forces Post Office services, how to address mail, BFPO numbers, e-blueys and free mail.
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Court listings for the Military court centres.
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British Forces Post Office (BFPO) locations, numbers and postcodes.
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The White House said late Thursday it is "shocked" that a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying nearly 300 people had been shot down near the Ukrainian border, urging a full and transparent investigation to determine who...
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In 2012, the U.S. military hit a record for the number of suicides among troops on active duty - 319 - since the Pentagon began closely tracking the numbers in 2001.
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Raytheon Company and Kongsberg Gruppen have formed a teaming agreement to provide new solutions for the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) mission. As a centerpiece of the agreement, the companies will develop the Joint Strike Missil...
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Beechcraft Corporation announced during the Farnborough International Airshow that it has delivered the first of four Beechcraft King Air 350ER aircraft ordered by the Mexican Navy Secretaría de Marina (SEMAR). In addition to the aircraf...
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In the wake of yesterday's Malaysia Airlines crash and the start of ground operations by Israeli forces in Gaza , the world is again attuned to the various geopolitical hotspots where risk exists for major conflict to crop up. Deutsche B...
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High court quashes 1995 open verdict into death of Pte Cheryl James, one of four soldiers who died amid bullying claims An answer to the long-running mystery surrounding unexplained fatal shootings of army recruits at the Deepcut barrack...
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If you've been having trouble figuring out just what the impact of the U.S.' latest round of sanctions against Russia is going to be, don't worry: That is exactly what the Treasury Department intended. In an interview with the FT's Neil ...
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According Reuters, Ukrainian separatists killed 23 Ukrainian soldiers and wounded nearly 100 in a missile attack on Friday, July 11, 2014. A picture released on Reuters website shows Pro-Russian separatist fighters with 9K35 Strela 10 (N...
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Celebrating the armed forces covenant UK defence secretary supports Japan self-defence stance Typhoon jets to get long-range strike capability Veterans' accommodation to receive £20 million funding
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Michael Fallon welcomes Japanese announcement on collective self-defence.
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After months of posturing from Russia and the West, yesterday's shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17 over Ukrainian airspace could accelerate the conflict. While many had hoped that the tragedy might spark Russia to reverse its suppor...
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Any occasion that captures public attention – regardless of how sensitive – comes out to be an opportunity for spammers and hackers to snatch users’ personal information and spread malware, and the tragedy of the crashed Malaysia Airline...
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At the beginning of the month, we have reported about the new surge of a Stuxnet-like malware “Havex”, which was previously targeting organizations in the energy sector, had been used to carry out industrial espionage against a number of...
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John Wagley Top Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security U.S. flights are no longer allowed to fly across eastern Ukrainian airspace until further notice, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The “Notice to Air...
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And how Google could halt its infection in a second Malware dubbed Mayhem is spreading through Linux and FreeBSD web servers, researchers say. The software nasty uses a grab bag of plugins to cause mischief, and infects systems that are ...
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The Cloud Security Alliance has updated its Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) and Consensus Assessments Questionnaire (CAIQ) to help enterprises standardize cloud provider security assessments.
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The 31-year-old former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has warned that during surveillance, among other things, NSA system administrators also intercepted and routinely passed the nude photos of people in "sex...
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He doesnt drink, hes reading Dostoevsky and, no, he doesnt wear a disguise. A year after blowing the whistle on the NSA, Americas most wanted talks frankly about his life as a hero-pariah and why the world remains more dangerous than Orw...
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The whistleblower speaks to Alan Rusbridger and Ewen MacAskill about life in Russia, the NSA culture, his time there and the future of communication I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile EDWARD SNOWDEN ON His time in Hong Kong Continue reading...
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Despite FBI claims that CryptoLocker was neutralized in the GameOver Zeus botnet takedown, a researcher says that the ransomware is alive and evolving new variants.
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With another round of patches for several serious Java flaws, Oracle's quarterly CPU showed that Java security problems are not receding.
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Government told internet surveillance tribunal that gathering material 'may be permissible', say human rights groups The intelligence services are constructing "vast databases" out of accumulated interceptions of emails, a trib...
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Top Priority Sector: border_security Government Security News is pleased to present the official Roster of Winners and Finalists in its 2014 Airport, Seaport, Border Security Awards Program, which includes many longtime leaders in ...
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Britain needs much more than 'puncture repair kit' legislation if we are to tackle the growing imbalance between the security state and the state I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile Love or revile him, Edward Snowden has raised a great numbe...
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FBI.gov recently accompanied a group of 22 community leaders and law enforcement officers from the U.S. and six Central American countries as they took part in CACIE—the Central American Community Impact Exchange program—an innovative tr...
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73 percent of respondents to a recent survey said they're very or extremely concerned about the impact of ransomware, up from 48 percent in January.
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Cyber attacks are increasingly in the headlines, yet research reveals that UK micro businesses are unprepared. Why?
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German chancellor says talks on security and privacy needed to restore trust as US commentators defend surveillance of ally Germany wants "sensible talks" with the United States on the two countries' spat over alleged American ...
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OpenSSL vulnerabilities discovered in a number of Siemens industrial control systems are being exploited in the wild. The company has updates available for some, but not all, of the affected products.
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There’s a new kid on the crypto ransomware block, known as Critroni, that’s been sold in underground forums for the last month or so and is now being dropped by the Angler exploit kit. The ransomware includes a number of unus...
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An Australian daily deals site takes a staggering three years to tell customers about a breach that saw passwords and some credit card information stolen.
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It's unclear whether Microsoft will take a similar approach to Google in the way it handles Bing search results. The situation certainly needs clarification and the big 3 search engines have been invited to meet with EU privacy regulator...
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The official sub-domain of MSN Israel has been hacked and defaced by Turkish hackers against the ongoing bombings on Gaza Strip, Palestine. Akıncılar is the name of Turkish group that hacked and left the MSN Israel sub-domain with a defa...
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Turkish PM accuses Israel of terrorism, genocide; protesters pelt consulate with stones
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The news comes after Aorato blasted Microsoft for what it says is a massive Active Directory flaw.
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Questions surround who fired the missile that took down the Boeing 777.
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Ukrainian foes blame each other for the missile strike that brought down the Boeing 777 into rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
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BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft
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New study highlights worrying lack of dialogue between execs and security teams
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7/17/14 Aviation Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Nine Britons, 23 U.S. citizens, and 80 children are reported to be among the 283 passengers and fifteen crew members killed when an anti-aircraft missile...
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7/17/14 Terrorism Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s ( ISIS ) strategy to use English-speaking Westerns and social media to recruit militants is unprecedented. I...
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7/17/14 Contracts Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Three senior House Democrats have requested DHS ’s Office of Inspector General to investigate allegations claiming Motorola ’s contracting t...
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7/17/14 Cybersecurity Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments At the behest of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), with a $600 million grant, Amazon Web Services have put the finishing touches on a secure ...
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Driverless cars, such as those being developed by Google and a number of automotive manufacturers, present a real risk of crime but could equally help authorities, according to a newly released FBI report. Within a few years, the cars co...
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7/17/14 Terror insurance Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments After the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. insurance industry sustained an estimated $32.5 billion in total losses. In 2002, to encourage insurance compani...
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7/17/14 Biosecurity Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments The head of a federal biosecurity advisory committee says delays in the development of a national policy on institutional oversight of risky life-scie...
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298 People Aboard Included Vacationing Family and WHO Official
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Heavy jail sentences doled out to phisherfolk - cops A pair of phishing fraudsters each received long jail terms after they were convicted of making £15,000 through online scams before using the funds to finance the travel of other crook...
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Launched by famed MIT Media Labs roboticist Cynthia Breazeal, he's poised to smile, dance, and giggle his way into our hearts, our homes, and hopefully not into the lucrative position of pawning data about where we like to shop.
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Bulgarian authorities identify suicide bomber who blew up bus carrying Israeli tourists
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European Data Protection Supervisor releases guidelines on how to protect data sent outside the region.
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ISC has been awarded the contract to provide security services at Brent Civic Centre, headquarters of Brent Councilheralded as Britain’s greenest building . The post ISC awarded security role at Brent Civic Centre appeared first on Secur...
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Ethiopia charges 9 journalists with terrorism, says Committee to Protect Journalists
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A light-based wireless communication network developed by pureLiFi could be the tool for governments and businesses in combating terrorism and cyber crime. The post PureLiFi to deliver improvements in fight against cyber crime appeared f...
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Following its ground-breaking alliance with Apple, IBM has reported major growth in its security and mobile businesses
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Latest phony email claims recipient’s account has been blocked.
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Law enforcement action led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK has knocked out the infrastructure of a banking malware known as Shylock, because of excerpts from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice hidden in its code. Here's how to...
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Apple has expanded two-factor authentication for all its services to 48 more countries, bringing the total to 59
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Why to Increase the E-mail accounts Security? Imagine loosing access to your email account and you had everything in it. Your personal emails, business emails, family pictures, personal details etc. When a bad guy steals your password, a...
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EFF-endorsed SOHOpelessly Broken challenge will air routers' dirty zero day laundry Gird your loins router-makers: a throng of hackers are set to pry apart your woefully insecure hardware in a competition to expose bad firmware and hard-...
