German criminal agency tests surveillance tech

Germany’s federal criminal agency, the BKA, is testing at least one commercial spyware program, FinSpy, delivered through the German subsidiary of Britain’s Gamma International. FinSpy was exposed last year as being a surveillance application that was used in Mubarak’s Egypt. It infects computers by fooling targets into installing a fake update for iTunes…

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NASA and ISS data stolen from Japanese space agency

Sensitive data on a Japanese-designed space vehicle used to supply the International Space Station (ISS) appears to have been compromised after the country’s space agency admitted it had discovered a Trojan infection on one of its employee’s computers. Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) discovered the latest infection on 6 January…

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Government Agency Hackings Compromise Our Info

A massive cyber attack on American infrastructure is the 21st-century equivalent of the neutron bomb. All buildings remain standing but systems inside them are rendered useless. Human beings aren’t killed on a large scale, but few, if any, are left standing either. And while this sounds pretty dire, it’s quite…

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