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NSA, British spies hack Gemalto to tap mobile calls: Intercept

February 19, 2015 admin 450-wireless, agencies, cazeneuve, digital, government, headquarters, intercept, mobile-phones, national, report, state, ukraine, white-house, world

(Reuters) – Digital security company Gemalto NV was hacked by American and British spies to steal encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications, news website Intercept reported, citing documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The hack by the National Security Agency (NSA) and UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) allowed the agencies to monitor a large portion of voice and data mobile communications around the world without permission from governments and telecom companies, according to the report. NSA could not be immediately reached for comment

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NSA, British spies hack Gemalto to tap mobile calls: Intercept

February 19, 2015 publisher 450-wireless, agencies, digital, intercept, islamic-state, microsoft-corp, ministerial, mobile-phones, national

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Revenge porn operator agrees to plea to criminal charges in Los Angeles

February 19, 2015 admin bbc, dobuzinskis, government, national, practice, report, state, ukraine, women-or-men

(Refiles story dated February 18, correcting first name of defendant to Hunter instead of Michael in second paragraph) By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A man who posted explicit photos of women on his so-called revenge porn website, some taken from hacked email accounts, has agreed to plead guilty in Los Angeles to hacking and identity theft charges, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The plea agreement between Hunter Moore, 28, and federal prosecutors comes nearly three years after BBC News called him “The net’s most hated man” and reported that he was known to post the full name and location of people whose naked photos he featured on his site

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U.S. creates new agency to lead cyberthreat tracking

February 10, 2015 admin california, cyber, cyber-threat, employees-work, florida, from-various, more-spectrum, national, obama, president, senators-marco, the-information, the-wireless, wilson-center

By Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 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 data on cyberbreaches, which she said are ballooning in size and sophistication, to U.S

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South Korea steps up cyber security at nuclear plants

December 23, 2014 publisher down-the-links, gifts, korea-hydro, national, new-brand-name, south-korea, speech, speech-on-2015

By Jack Kim and Meeyoung Cho SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea boosted cyber security at the country's nuclear power plants on Tuesday following what President Park Geun-hye described as a series “grave” data leaks, and prosecutors said they were investigating a new online threat. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd (KHNP), which runs South Korea's 23 nuclear power reactors, said on Monday its computer systems had been hacked, raising alarm in a country that is still technically at war with North Korea. …