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200 Playstations + Holiday = Cracked Certification Authority

Mon, 05/01/2009 - 00:00
Whilst most of the IT security industry was relaxing in the runup to the Christmas holiday period, it seems that a group of US and UK hackers pooled their talents and around 200 Playstation 3 games consoles to create a `rogue' Certification Authority (CA)

UK Home Office takes softly-softly stance on warrantless hacking

Mon, 05/01/2009 - 00:00
The Home Office is reported to be quietly ramping up plans to infect suspect's PCs with Trojan-driven eavesdropping software and so gain remote access to their machine's hard drives.

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