A federal judge on Tuesday sided with the government in a lawsuit alleging the National Security Agency is illegally engaging in the bulk collection of Internet and telephone records in the hunt for potential terrorists.
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Canon Inc made a 23.6 billion-Swedish-crown ($2.83 billion) offer for network video surveillance leader Axis AB on Tuesday — the biggest purchase ever for the Japanese firm trying to expand beyond a shrinking camera market.
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Public feedback on the ‘Digital Locker’ concept and its implementation will be sought before the release of the final version. R.S. Sharma, secretary, department of electronics and IT, said that the Digital Locker would be linked to the Aadhaar card and citizens could store their government issued documents and certificates on the cloud. Centre for…
Cyber security sleuths have alerted e-banking users in the country against the infectious and destructive activity of a “worm” virus which attacks and steals personal login secrets and passwords of an individual.
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The Forbes.com financial news site was infected by Chinese hackers with spying software that targeted specific visitors, including those at U.S. financial services and defense firms, according to two cybersecurity firms.
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The US wants India to be its “best partner” to combat “shared” cyber crime threats in specific sectors of finance, infrastructure and energy, a top American official said here today. United States of America’s Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter, who is in India for meetings with his counterparts in the cyber security domain, said both…
Hackers calling themselves “CyberCaliphate” threatened U.S. President Barack Obama and his family when they took control of Newsweek magazine’s Twitter account on Tuesday with the words “Je suIS IS,” a reference to Islamic State and the deadly attack at French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
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Calling the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures “a game changer,” a top White House official on Tuesday announced a new intelligence unit to coordinate analysis of cyberthreats, modeled on similar U.S. government efforts to fight terrorism. Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, said the new agency will rapidly pool and disseminate…
Turkish authorities including government agencies have stepped up their crackdown on freedom of expression online in 2014, with figures fromTwitter showing the problem getting worse.
According to the latest transparency report from the website for the last six months of 2014, Turkey was the country that made the most content removal requests.
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Trust Aamir Khan to take a stand for all things right, and call a spade a spade. In what is perhaps the most damning reaction from a Bollywood biggie on the controversial AIB Roast featuring Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor, reports suggest that Aamir has come down heavily on the show, saying that…