Hacker suckers Swedish security elite into surveillance stich-up – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc75VsFCiyE

Fake Wi-Fi network fools top Swedish security experts:

http://rt.com/news/222891-pirate-hacker-nipe-network/

FBI briefed on alternate Sony hack theory – Tal Kopan – POLITICO

FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the perpetrator — another example of the continuing whodunit blame game around the devastating attack.

Even the unprecedented decision to release details of an ongoing FBI investigation and President Barack Obama publicly blaming the hermit authoritarian regime hasn’t quieted a chorus of well-qualified skeptics who say the evidence just doesn’t add up.

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Explore the World’s Biggest Data Breaches with This Interactive Chart

Explore the World’s Biggest Data Breaches with This Interactive Chart

Explore the World’s Biggest Data Breaches with This Interactive Chart.

Patrick Allan Filed to: security

 

Hacked vs. Hackers: Game On – NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Paul Kocher, one of the country’s leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world’s dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts.

One shows the number of airplane deaths per miles flown, which decreased to one-thousandth of what it was in 1945 with the advent of the Federal Aviation Administration in 1958 and stricter security and maintenance protocols. The other, which details the number of new computer security threats, shows the opposite. There has been more than a 10,000-fold increase in the number of new digital threats over the last 12 years.

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