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Telstra customers gain access to own metadata from next month
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-03-06 01:59
From April 1, Telstra customers will be able to access metadata that the telco is keeping on them for a fee that is expected to begin at AU$25.
"We believe that if the police can ask for information relating to you, you should be able to as well," Telstra said in its announcement.
Private Email Server Made Hillary Clinton Vulnerable To Hackers, But The State Dept Isn't Much Safer
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-03-06 01:53
By using private email, Hillary Clinton put her data at risk every time she clicked on a link or downloaded an attachment as secretary of state. But the American public, and even Clinton herself, will probably never know if hackers were able to monitor her communication from 2009 to 2013, the four years she served as the most powerful U.S. diplomat.
NZ customs seeks powers to disclose passwords
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2015-03-04 08:02
Customs are seeking the power to require people to disclose passwords to their electronic devices when entering New Zealand.
It said the power would be useful in helping detect objectionable material and evidence of other offending, such as drugs offences, as well as to verify people's travel plans.
What’s worse than Superfish? Meet PrivDog, leaving users wide open to attacks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2015-02-25 01:50
Last week, a storm erupted on the net after it became widely known that Superfish – software that was being pre-installed on Lenovo PCs – could compromise users’ security and privacy.
The problem with Superfish was not just that it injected money-making ads into websites, but that it used a self-signed root certificate to intercept encrypted HTTPS traffic for every website users visited – replacing legitimate site certificates with its own.
How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-02-23 01:48
One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer’s firmware with malicious code. The Kaspersky researchers who uncovered this said its ability to subvert hard drive firmware—the guts of any computer—“surpasses anything else” they had ever seen.