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This Week In 60 Seconds celebrates the holiday season with gift ideas for the hacker in your life, tips on how to shop safely online, and predictions for smart wearables.  Hacker Stocking Stuffers, Safe Online Shopping Tips

The global telecom network Signal System 7 helps phone carriers across the world, including AT&T and Verizon, route calls and texts. It’s also apparently perforated with security holes that lets hackers and spies listen to your calls and read your texts. It’s so bad the ACLU’s chief technologist told me that people worried about being

By Jennifer LeClaire / NewsFactor Network The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is pointing the finger of blame for the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) cyberattack directly at North Korea. In collaboration with other U.S. government departments and agencies, the FBI said it has enough evidence to conclude that the Communist nation is responsible for the

BY DAMON POETER Dutch researchers says we’re closer to making such technology a practical reality. Imagine credit cards and ID cards which could never be hacked. That’s the promise of quantum cryptography, which harnesses peculiar properties of subatomic particles to thwart data thieves. Now a team of Dutch researchers says we’re closer to making such

As many organizations before it, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been compromised after some of its employees fell for cleverly constructed spear-phishing emails sent by the attackers. ICANN, the nonprofit organization responsible for overseeing the use of Internet domains, is still actively investigating the extent of the breach and compromised

‘It’s not okay that people steal our secrets’ By Casey Newton One of the least expected companies to take collateral damage in the epic Sony Pictures hack has been Snapchat. CEO Evan Spiegel regularly trades emails with Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, who sits on Snapchat’s board, and the revelations from the pair’s emails have

SAM COLT US officials believe North Korea is “centrally involved” in hacking Sony Pictures, reports The New York Times. The Times paints a picture of how the attacks against Sony could have been carried out by North Korea. The hackers, who call themselves the Guardians of Peace (GOP) used commercial tools to carry out their

Delta Airlines intends to remain ahead of the competition when it comes to being on the cutting edge of technology, but even the best of intentions can result in an mistake or a flaw being discovered. Case in point, Delta Airlines’ glitch would allow you to actually access someone else’s boarding pass – without them being

By Nick Marinoff A lot has been happening with the “friendly” bitcoin hacker “johoe.” Speculation first began last week when he swiped approximately 250 bitcoins from blockchain.info following a security lapse that took place during the early hours of Monday, December 8th.  In a strange sort of twist, johoe later returned the bitcoins, explaining that

By Larry Ponemon In an age where data security defenses are getting more and more sophisticated, there will be increased pressure for malicious parties to glean information from within the organization’s walls or public places. Moving forward, we can expect to see a shift from hacking networks to a focus on hacking people. The tactics