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Scottish Power blows a fuse after Twitter hijacking 25 Jan 2013 | 02:11 pm
‘Leccy biz ‘really sorry’ after customers lured to villains’ lair A Scottish Power Twitter account was hacked this morning to usher customers into the clutches of web miscreants.… Read more…
Silly gits upload private crypto keys to public GitHub projects 25 Jan 2013 | 10:50 am
Amazing what you can find searching for ‘BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY’ Scores of programmers uploaded their private cryptographic keys to public source-code repositories on GitHub, exposing their login crede...
Activists urge Skype: Tell us who is spying on us 25 Jan 2013 | 12:21 am
Microsoft mum on privacy, security policies A coalition of activists, privacy organizations, journalists, and others have called upon Microsoft to be more forthright about when, why, and to whom it di...
Public genome databases can leak identity 24 Jan 2013 | 08:11 pm
Anonymity only goes so far Public genome data is a significant risk to individuals, according to research led out by Yaniv Elrich, a geneticist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.… Rea...
Backdoor root login found in Barracuda gear – and Barracuda is OK with this 24 Jan 2013 | 04:50 pm
Hidden accounts ‘needed for remote tech support’ Multiple Barracuda Networks products feature an undocumented backdoor, leaving widely deployed data centre kit vulnerable to hijacking.… Read more…
Say goodnight, Todd Akin 20 Aug 2012 | 03:56 pm
No wonder Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill wanted to run against Rep. Todd Akin, even investing in his GOP primary victory two weeks ago by spending $2 million on ads that described him as “too conse...
5 lessons from 5 days on the road 20 Aug 2012 | 03:39 pm
(Photos above via Instagram as part of our 5in5 project) Spend a week on the road speaking with congressional candidates and voters in the Midwest and you’ll learn a thing or two — or at least have th...
GOP Platform Committee begins debate on party manifesto 20 Aug 2012 | 03:23 pm
TAMPA — The singing, cheering, funny-hat wearing delegates that represent the GOP’s heart won’t gather in this Florida city for the Republican National Convention for another week. But the party’s bra...
Todd Akin’s Bachmann-esque problem 20 Aug 2012 | 03:06 pm
Rep. Todd Akin is doing his best to talk himself out of a seat in the U.S. Senate. The Missouri congressman’s claim in a local TV interview airing Sunday morning that “legitimate rape” rarely causes p...
Romney the candidate vs. Romney the church leader 20 Aug 2012 | 02:20 pm
A close look at Romney’s leadership in his church shows how his actions sometimes clashed with his political positions, which include advocating on the campaign trail for a policy of “self-deportation...
