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A former National Security Agency contractor was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for stealing classified material over more than two decades in what may be the largest breach of classified information in U.S. history. Harold Thomas Martin III, 54, …

A former National Security Agency contractor was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to removing classified information from the spy agency, in what is widely viewed as one of the largest thefts of U.S. government …

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Remember the end of GandCrab we talked about a couple weeks back? A new wrinkle to this story is the news that a coalition of law enforcement agencies and security researchers have released a decrypter and the master decryption keys for that ransomware. It’s …

Ex-NSA contractor to be sentenced in stolen documents case - Fox Baltimore

A Silicon Valley company with a history of CIA funding, a suite of highly sought after intelligence software tools, and a gallivanting billionaire founder with connections to the Trump Administration is set to become one of the biggest IPOs in recent memory. …

Earlier: Housing Starts at 1.253 Million Annual Rate in June Total housing starts in June were slightly below expectations, and starts for April and May were revised down. The housing starts report showed starts were down 0.9% in June compared to May, and s…

Credit: AMD BIOS is so unfamiliar to most people that it might as well stand for Basically Invisible Overlooked System. Few want to understand what it does, even fewer actually explore it, and fewer still bother to seek out alternatives. Those who do will pr…

Axciom buys records from Florida's DMV (which include non-driver IDs) at $0.01/each. They're just one of many, many data-brokers who buy data from the state's DMV. So many, in fact, that the state turned over $77m in data-sales in 2017. These get sold for b…

In 2011, the US Federal Trade Commission put Facebook under consent decree after the company "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly it to be shared and made public." The way t…