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Instead of hiring "upper-class twits from Oxford and Cambridge," A government communications agency tried a new angle on recruiting hackers. They decided to combat hackers with other experienced hackers by posting an online puzzle and offering a job interview to those who solved it.

This video talks about a hack done by a group of Russian hackers that gained access to 1.2 billion records, and discusses the idea that perhaps passwords are no longer the best way to protect our information. It's a quick video, but what was interesting to me was that I hadn't even considered that something other than the current password system could protect our information.

Hacker targets toymaker VTech, finds kids' photos, videos, and chat logs, all poorly secured. #fywscrypto https://t.co/elG88Z8Eec - Derek Bruff (@derekbruff) December 1, 2015

Eastern European hackers have been proven more effective at their craft than Asian cybercriminals due to their precision, focus, and ability to protect their identities. 

Check out this article! It's about a recent security breach of heathcare.gov that was made possible due to a test server with a default password that hadn't been changed and a lack of regular security scans.

The Government Communications Headquarters in the UK offered a job application to anyone who could solve their code found at www.canyoucrackit.co.uk

Since Israel's bombardment of Gaza, 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government websites. This article discusses the details of the hacking attempts, and the extent of their success or failure.

Getty In an age of surveillance anxiety, the notion of leaving your Wi-Fi network open and unprotected seems dangerously naive. But one group of activists says it can help you open up your wireless internet and not only maintain your privacy, but actually increase it in the process. At the Hackers on Planet Earth conference…

Advice: Never store sensitive information on websites; add a DNS service; ignore pop-ups

Try to avoid opening emails from senders you don't 100% trust and know. Also, routinely check your PC using some kind of antivirus or data scrubbing software to ensure your system hasn't accrued keyloggers or malware that might give bad actors sensitive personal information.

In the war over encryption between the NSA and privacy activists, at first it seemed as though the activists had won - but now it's not so clear.

This was shared with the group! Did you do anything different this time? Your comment appeared twice, but that's fine.

I didn't do anything different! It must have appeared twice because I posted it twice.

"Since the dawn of the information age, we've bought into the idea that a password, so long as it's elaborate enough, is an adequate means of protecting all this precious data. But in 2012 that's a fallacy, a fantasy, an outdated sales pitch. And anyone who still mouths it is a sucker-or someone who takes you for one."

The recent news that someone using your computer can see all of your passwords stored in Chrome with a few clicks made me aware of something that I had known -- but ignored -- for a long time: I have five or six passwords for dozens of accounts. ...

We read this for a paper in another class, thought it was interesting!