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Michelle Carter sentenced in texting suicide case - also gets total media exploitation ban + video

4/8/2017

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Live: Watch Michelle Carter's sentencing in texting suicide case

Update: Judge Lawrence Moniz has taken a recess to 2:50 p.m., at which time he said he'll render his decision. Video may take a moment to load. TAUNTON, Mass.

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Forget Orange, Cybersecurity is the New Black

21/6/2017

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Fascinating story here in Variety magazine on the recent Netflix/Orange Is The New Black hack – turns out the weak link was a single PC still running Windows 7!
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How Hollywood Got Hacked: Studio at Center of Netflix Leak Breaks Silence (EXCLUSIVE)

"Hello Rick." "Hello Jill." This story first appeared in the June 20, 2017 issue of Variety. Larson Studios president Rick Larson and his wife and business partner, Jill Larson, didn't recognize the number that sent them these two short text messages via their personal cell phones two days before Christmas last year, so they simply ignored them.

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Cybersecurity: Russian Hackers? William Gibson warned of this in 1981!

15/6/2017

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Is this cyberpunk enough?

18/5/2017

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With all the recent stories about cybersecurity, ransomware and the WannaCry hack, here's Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, in action spraying holy water around a Russian police control centre to protect it from computer viruses. 
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Cybersecurity comment: Greg Bufithis on the WannaCry ransomware hack - another fine mess caused by NSA spooks

15/5/2017

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The "WannaCry" ransomware attack, cyber warfare ... and the lack of understanding

What these cyber attacks are starting to resemble This past Friday a major ransomware attack affected 100 countries and scores of organizations across the world reportedly including 14 May 2017 - Telefonica in Spain, the National Health Service in the UK, the railway system in Russia, and FedEx in the US.

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Like something out of Shadowrun

12/5/2017

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One of my cyberpunk writing friends suggests this story about the Barclays CEO falling for this email prank sounds like something out of the Shadowrun RPG/video game. The fact the first letter of each line in the poem spells out the word "whistleblower" just adds to the fun. "The fool doth think he is wise indeed" !

An email prankster successfully duped Barclays CEO into thinking he was the bank's chairman

Jes Staley, the CEO of one of the biggest banks in the world, Barclays, was tricked into an email exchange with someone pretending to be the bank's chairman, John McFarlane. A prankster, who is reportedly a disgruntled customer, used a Gmail account to hold a brief exchange with Staley shortly after the bank's AGM on Wednesday.

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Cybersecurity: The Hacker will always get through - if you let them 

11/4/2017

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THE HACKER WILL AWAYS GET THROUGH - IF YOU LET THEM

With hacking and cybersecurity now pretty much constantly in the news, the question is: will the hacker always get through? For example, at the time of writing this piece, an emerging story was that a criminal gang in Brazil had hacked a bank's servers so effectively that customers were

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Cyberwar: The Russians are coming - and the Chinese too ...warns Greg Bufithis

24/3/2017

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Yep, we've finally slipped over into a world that reads like the plot of a William Gibson cyberpunk novel although instead of Keanu Reeves as Johnny Mnemonic, we've got a bunch of overweight American spooks having rings run around them by the Russians and the Chinese!

HOLY CYBER!! Part 1: THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!! THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!! (oh, the Chinese, too)

Posted on by in Brain droppings 24 MARCH 2017 (Paris, France) - Whatever you might think of Russia's recent antics on the world stage, you have to concede: they have brilliantly exploited information-age tools to confuse audiences about what is truth, what isn't, and to set their own narrative.

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Future Crime: Just put down that GIF and come out with your hands up!

22/3/2017

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A GIF counts as a deadly weapon, a Texas grand jury has agreed this week. The decision came as part of the case against John Rayne Rivello, who stands accused of sending a flashing animated GIF to journalist Kurt Eichenwald in a bid to cause an epileptic seizure. Story via The Verve.

US grand jury decides that a GIF counts as a deadly weapon in Twitter seizure case

A GIF counts as a deadly weapon, a Texas grand jury has agreed this week. The decision came as part of the case against John Rayne Rivello, who stands accused of sending a flashing GIF to...

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Cyber Evidence & the IoT: Hello Alexa, how do I get rid of bloodstains on the carpet?

13/3/2017

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Can your smart home be used against you in court?
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