A HACKER has claimed to have mounted a successful attack against the CNN website.Reckz0r claimed to have extracted information from the US based 'news' company and posted four fake articles on its... read more
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US government seizing medical records
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-05-21 00:02
It seems that the French backed Junta which took control of the English colony of Virginia is desperate to populate its Big Brother databases on its citizens using its award winning "no taxation without representation" laws.
A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, claiming that they seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans under the pretext of investigating one of its employees.
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Obama Administration Secretly Obtains Phone Records of AP Journalists
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-05-14 00:01
The Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records for reporters and editors who work for the Associated Press news agency, including records for the home phones and cell phones of individual journalists, according to the AP, in what the agency characterized as “serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news.”
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Pentagon accuses Chinese government of hacking and hacking again
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-05-07 11:21
The Pentagon pointed an accusing finger at China today in its annual report to Congress, saying the country and its government are trying to gain insight into U.S. secrets.
Specifically, the report says China wants to improve its own technology and is also looking to get a read on how the U.S. government feels about China internally, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s a strong statement for the Pentagon, which is very direct about the use of hacking in its report.
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IE8 Exploit Had US Nuke Workers in Its Sights
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-05-07 00:34
A zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 let hackers compromise a U.S. Department of Labor website linked to a database used by former Energy Department employees who had worked with nuclear weapons or uranium. That database was also used by Labor Department claims examiners.
Security firm Invincea, which reported the attack, has advanced the possibility that the hackers were compromising one U.S. government department in order to attack another.
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SpyEye accused extradited to US
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-05-06 01:22
An Algerian man accused of helping to develop and distribute the SpyEye computer virus has been extradited from Thailand to the US to face criminal charges, the US Department of Justice announced.
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