Brilliant failure by TSA contractor

Which compromised the entire CLEAR travel database to include names, driver’s license and passport details which were stored UNENCRYPTED!
And what better way to do that then to get your hands on the details of everyone on the list. Well, it appears that the TSA has forgotten its middle name, and failed to protect its own [...]

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Hackers warn of hacker threat….

Up next, bees warn of bee stings…

High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world’s elite hackers have warned.
They claim it is only a “matter of time” before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted.
Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia’s [...]

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Chinese hackers attack Save Darfur

The FBI has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition, a national advocacy group pushing to end the six-year-old conflict in Sudan.  The accounts of 10 members were hacked into between early February and last week, and the [...]

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Remember kids, that’s gwb@whitehouse.com

A British factory worker has shut down a tourism site he owned at the request of the U.S. air force after he received thousands of e-mails sent to his domain that were meant for military personnel — among them e-mails with flight plans for Air Force One, the U.S. presidential plane, as well as passwords [...]

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I haven’t really missed them…

According to reports, the internet blackout, which has left 75 million people with only limited access, was caused by a ship that tried to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday. Since then phone and internet traffic has been severely reduced across a huge swath of the region, slashed by as [...]

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