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A St. Louis company managing medical prescriptions of 50 million people says it has alerted the FBI of an extortion plot threatening to divulge the names and prescriptions of millions of its clients. Express Scripts says it received a letter announcing the plot, which seeks an undisclosed amount of money.
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Facebook users who choose to install the wrong third party application could find themselves inducted into a robot computer army controlled by a hacker. At least, that’s what a team of Greek computer researchers proved with their rogue Photo of the Day application.
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it’ll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. Which means honest-to-goodness energy weapons might actually become a military reality, after decades of fruitless searching.
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Is Sarah Palin a hacker? Well, not exactly, but that’s what a couple of articles and a nascent internet rumor might have you believe.
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Best Western International and the Sunday Herald newspaper of Scotland are duking it out over a story which reports that a hacker stole the records of 8 million customers from the hotel chain’s global network in the “the greatest cyber-heist in world history.” Best Western says 10 people were affected at one hotel.
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Researchers demonstrate a serious eavesdropping risk in the internet’s fundamental infrastructure, putting proof to a theory that’s long been whispered about in national security circles.
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Rather than developing performance-enhancing drugs for soldiers, defense agents want to study performance-degrading drugs for our enemies. A report recommends investment in neuroscience research that could reveal ways to eliminate our enemies’ motivation to fight and get them to obey our commands.
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The internet remains vulnerable to a spoofing attack recently discovered by security expert Dan Kaminsky. The only real solution is to digitally sign the DNS root zone, but security experts say politics in the Department of Commerce are slowing the effort and endangering the trustworthiness of the net.
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