Senator stalls intelligence funding bill over surveillance concerns
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jun-28-2016
- Business Technology
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A U.S. senator has stalled an intelligence budget bill over concerns that it would expand surveillance while limiting oversight of it.Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has placed a hold on the 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act, saying the bill would allow […]
Read MoreSenator stalls intelligence funding bill over surveillance concerns
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jun-28-2016
- Business Technology
- Comments Off on Senator stalls intelligence funding bill over surveillance concerns
A U.S. senator has stalled an intelligence budget bill over concerns that it would expand surveillance while limiting oversight of it.Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has placed a hold on the 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act, saying the bill would allow […]
Read MoreThousands of hacked CCTV devices used in DDoS attacks
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jun-28-2016
- Business Technology
- Comments Off on Thousands of hacked CCTV devices used in DDoS attacks
Attackers have compromised more than 25,000 digital video recorders and CCTV cameras and are using them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites.
One such attack, recently observed by researchers from Web security firm Sucuri, targeted the website of one […]
Thousands of hacked CCTV devices used in DDoS attacks
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Jun-28-2016
- Business Technology
- Comments Off on Thousands of hacked CCTV devices used in DDoS attacks
Attackers have compromised more than 25,000 digital video recorders and CCTV cameras and are using them to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites.
One such attack, recently observed by researchers from Web security firm Sucuri, targeted the website of one […]

