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EU can suspend new data transfer pact with U.S. if worried about privacy: Official

December 10, 2015 creative data-transfer, edward-snowden, european-union, facebook, julia-fioretti, leaked-details, security, united, usa

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A new data transfer pact between the European Union and Washington will give the EU the right to pull the plug on the deal if it fears the United States is not safeguarding privacy enough, the EU Justice Commissioner said on Thursday. A previous transatlantic data transfer framework, Safe Harbour, was struck down on Oct. 6 by the European Union's top court because of worries about mass U.S.

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FLOTUS on the track: Michelle Obama makes rap video for college campaign

December 10, 2015 creative celebrity, data-transfer, fame-on-social, michelle-obama, national-arts, obama, security, united, white

Fill your head with knowledge,” Obama rhymes as comedian Jay Pharoah, known for his Saturday Night Live impression of her husband President Barack Obama, makes a stack of bills rain onto the floor of the White House.

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NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws

November 6, 2015 creative because-the-nsa, car-guards, companies-open, cyber-attacks, flaws-it-finds, joseph-menn, most-serious, nsa, problems, san, security, the-officials, the-problems, time, vulnerabilities

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S.

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Square IPO priced at 30 percent discount to last private funding

November 6, 2015 admin because-the-nsa, car-guards, flaws-it-finds, initial-public, joseph-menn, mobile, nsa, san, security, the-officials, twitter

By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Mobile payments company Square Inc set a price range on Friday for its highly anticipated initial public offering that values the company at up to $4.2 billion, a 30 percent discount to its valuation at its last fundraising round. San Francisco-based Square, which is headed by Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, is one of the most prominent “unicorns,” or private companies valued at more than $1 billion, to make a public debut this year

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Judge dismisses Wikimedia lawsuit over NSA surveillance – report

October 24, 2015 creative bluffdale, caitlyn-jenner, carson, federal-court, nsa, popular-costume, security, spying-programs, super-bowl, united, village-party

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of the U.S. National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs, the Baltimore Sun reported. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Maryland, where the spy agency is based, said the NSA is violating U.S

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Space age perils: hackers find a new battleground on the final frontier

October 22, 2015 admin bluffdale, brake-on-future, carson, final-frontier, hang-on-display, museum, nonprofit, nsa, popular-costume, security, space, super-bowl, udvar

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Space, the 'final frontier', is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival networks operating in the $330-billion space economy.

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Former NSA head Alexander asks agency to review patents

April 24, 2015 publisher government, india, leaving-the-nsa, online-payments, platform-backed, pushing-deeper, san, security, shekhar-sharma

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Former National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander has asked the U.S. intelligence agency to review patent filings by his company to make sure that they do not reveal any secrets or misappropriate any government work

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BlackBerry introduces security offering for IoT devices

April 21, 2015 creative also-outlined, blackberry, britain, elliptic-curve, growing, internet, launch, level-it-offers, million-smart, new-certificate, photo-during, said-on-tuesday, security, security-level

BlackBerry Ltd said on Tuesday it is launching a new certificate service that will help bring the security level it offers on smartphones to a slew of devices from cars to smart meters. Certicom, a subsidiary of BlackBerry and an industry pioneer in elliptic curve cryptography, announced a new offering that it contends will secure millions of devices, expected to be part of the growing Internet of Things (IoT) sphere. The company said it has already won a contract in Britain to issue certificates for the smart meter initiative there with more than 104 million smart meters and home energy management devices

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State Department upgrades network security against cyber attacks

March 13, 2015 admin address-whether, agency-carried, brief-statement, chinese, desktop, naguib-sawiris, network-during, planned-outage, security, speaks-during, telecom, the-security

The State Department on Friday said it was upgrading the security of its unclassified computer network to defend against cyber attacks, leaving some employees unable to send outside emails or access the internet. Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the agency, which in November said it had suffered a cyber attack, was improving “the security of its main unclassified network during a short, planned outage of some Internet-linked systems.” The agency carried out an upgrade in November that also left workers unable to send outside emails or to get to the internet. In a brief statement, Psaki said the department continued to monitor “activity of concern” on its unclassified network but did not address whether there had been a recent, new attack that prompted the latest security upgrade.

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Snapchat COO Emily White resigns

March 13, 2015 publisher address-whether, desktop, facebook, her-oversight, including-sales, industry-figure, network-during, photo, security, service-secured, spiegel

(Reuters) – Snapchat Chief Operating Officer Emily White has left the company just days after the photo-messaging service secured $200 million in funding from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd at a reported valuation of $15 billion. White has been at the startup just over a year

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