Security news

• House bill seeks to sanction indicted Iranian hackers

  14-05-2016 17:00
  
  A U.S. House member introduced draft legislation Thursday that would require the Obama administration to sanction Iranian hackers indicted for cyberattacks.
  
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• New York Fed defends fund transfer after Bangladesh heist

  14-05-2016 03:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After an $81 million cyber heist at the Bangladesh central bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said there was no problem with its procedures for approving fund transfers, according to a letter released on Friday by a U.S. lawmaker who had questioned those methods. U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney had called for a probe of the fund transfers triggered by the February cyber attack on the Bangladesh central bank. In the April 14 letter Thomas Baxter, general counsel and executive vice pre
  
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• Next-level tracking addiction: UPS shows exact package locations on a map

  14-05-2016 01:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Newsflash: people love stuff. They have tons of stuff and they want more stuff. They purchase stuff online all the time, like this  4K Ultra HD TV or this giant  wall decal of a random elderly Asian gentleman ( what in the? ). When they buy stuff, they can't wait to get their new stuff so they track their deliveries incessantly until they arrive. If you're a package tracking addict, we have news. It might be great news and it might be awful news, depending on your perspective. With its
  
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