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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

SiteLock

According to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on French President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-2012, Wikileaks says. These files were said to derive from directly targeted NSA surveillance of the communications of multiple French leaders.

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Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Malwarebytes

The Tor (The Onion Router) network protects users from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. Since 2006, development of Tor has been conducted by a nonprofit organization called The Tor Project. Your traffic joins the Internet from the VPN provider and uses your VPN provider’s IP address, so it appears to originate there.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

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Spotlight Podcast: Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Taking a Risk-Based Approach to Election Security How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Episode 188: Crowdsourcing Surveillance with Flock Safety. Read the whole entry. » Three Decades On: RSA Labs Sets Course for Future. The Past Informing the Future.

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Spotlight Podcast: CTO Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Taking a Risk-Based Approach to Election Security How NIST Is Securing The Quantum Era Episode 188: Crowdsourcing Surveillance with Flock Safety. Read the whole entry. » Three Decades On: RSA Labs Sets Course for Future. The Past Informing the Future.

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What To Know About Privacy Data

Identity IQ

The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Staying safe on the internet means knowing what privacy data is and how to help protect your personal information. As the digital age evolved, in 2006, the Council of Europe declared a Data Protection Day.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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