"Realtime 3-D printing has moved beyond trendy trinkets and has moved into businesses, homes and even the battlefield. Now that military branches have created and tested 3-D printed weapons, Navy …
OnePlus phones have a hidden backdoor
"This is not a good year for OnePlus, as the Chinese smartphone maker had to put several fires out. The most recent issue concerned user privacy, as OnePlus has been found to collect too much data …
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Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757
"During a keynote on Nov. 8 at the 2017 CyberSat Summit, a DHS official admitted that he and his team of experts remotely hacked into a Boeing 757. This hack was not conducted in a laboratory, but on …
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Does organizing cyberspace actually ratchet up potential for conflict?
"Some in the academic world think so. ‘I think the elevation of Cyber Command and I think the creation of Cyber Command has expedited the security dilemma,’ Aaron Brantly, assistant professor of …
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Expect Federal CIO, Federal CISO and Other Cyber Nominees Soon, White House Cyber Chief Says
"Many top cybersecurity and technology positions remain vacant 10 months into the Trump administration, but that’s not by design, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce said …
China Has A Breakthrough in Spy-Proof Quantum Communications
"A team of Chinese researchers say they have completed the first long-distance quantum secure direct communication, a critical step toward sending messages that are truly safe …
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FBI again finds itself unable to unlock a gunman’s cellphone
"The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might hold." Source: FBI …
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Afghanistan moves to block WhatsApp, Telegram messaging services
"Afghanistan’s telecoms regulator wrote to internet service providers this week ordering them to block the messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram but it was not immediately clear whether they had …
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The Next Big Hack Could Turn America’s Lights Off
"When a serious cyberattack against the U.S. begins, at first you’ll blame the weather, or an accident, or corporate incompetence. It’ll be a power outage that lasts a few hours at most. But things …
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Russia hackers had targets worldwide, beyond US election
"The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election last year had ambitions that stretched across the globe, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense …
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