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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired his FBI director James Comey, the man who leads the agency charged with investigating his campaign’s ties with Russia — a move that sent shockwaves through Washington.
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The scandal over Russian meddling in last year’s US presidential election returns to the forefront of Washington politics after weeks of quiet on Monday, when two top officials from the Obama administration are set to testify in Congress.
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They knew months ago that top-of-the-range hackers had been targeting them. They believe their security measures, too, had been nothing short of top-rate. But, in the end, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s team got hacked.
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Continue reading ‘Macronleaks’: Hackers Find Flaw in French Cyber-Fortress
French electoral authorities took a hard line Saturday on a hacking attack targeting presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron’s campaign, saying anyone who circulates the leaked information could be committing a “criminal offence”.
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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s team blasted a “massive and coordinated hacking attack” against his campaign after a flood of internal documents were released online late Friday, barely 24 hours before the election.
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Continue reading Macron Blasts Huge Hacking Attack Just Before French Vote
A phishing scam that tricked people with what appeared to be Google Docs links was doused by the internet giant after spreading wildly on Wednesday.
The purpose of the scam, and the culprits behind it, remained unknown late in the day.
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The Hague – European police are probing whether the Islamic State group and other extremists are setting up a social network to spread propaganda, gain funding and avoid security crackdowns, an official said Wednesday.
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The National Security Agency announced Friday it would end its controversial practice of sweeping up any email or text message an American exchanges with someone overseas that makes reference to a real target of NSA surveillance.
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Continue reading US NSA Spy Agency Halts Controversial Email Sweep
Turkey on Saturday blocked all access inside the country to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reportedly for articles claiming links between Ankara and terror groups, the latest restriction on a popular website to hit Turkish users.
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Continue reading Turkey Blocks Access to Wikipedia Over ‘Terror’ Claims
The British government has complained to Twitter over a block on access to data from the social network, which it was reportedly using to track potential terror attacks, officials said Wednesday.
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Continue reading UK Government Complains After Twitter Cuts Data Access