August 09, 2016

Email: how secure is yours? [Survey]

We know you keep your emails secure, but how do you do it?

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July 25, 2016

WikiLeaks leaks DNC emails, setting off political firestorm

The Democratic National Committee is blaming Russia for the breach, while political fallout includes the chairwoman's resignation.

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July 06, 2016

FBI lets off “extremely careless” Hillary Clinton

The FBI is not charging Clinton over her "extremely careless" use of a personal email server.

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June 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s email was blocked, so the State Dept. turned off spam filters

The IT staff nervously turned off 2 email filters, noting that those filters had recently caught malicious content.

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May 05, 2016

Hacker Guccifer claims to have easily breached Hillary Clinton’s email twice

"For me, was easy, was easy. For me, for everybody," he said, calling it an "open orchid on the internet."

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February 02, 2016

Where do US presidential candidates stand on privacy and surveillance?

In the 2016 presidential campaign, cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy haven't received a whole lot of attention. Where do the candidates stand on these important issues?

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December 21, 2015

Democrats’ database bug spotlights the rise of big data in elections

The US presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders found itself in trouble when a staffer improperly accessed a voter database belonging to the rival campaign of Hillary Clinton.

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August 20, 2015

Jeb Bush: encryption makes it harder to catch “evildoers”

Republican US presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Tuesday that encryption makes it harder for the NSA to do its job, and advocated for broad NSA surveillance powers to catch "evildoers."

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July 06, 2015

Hillary Clinton: China hacks ‘everything that doesn’t move’ in the US

In the wake of the OPM breach, Hillary Clinton attempts to show presidential credentials by going on the offensive against Chinese hackers.

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