A TV5Monde staffer accidentally revealed a password used to access the social media account of the broadcaster in an interview. Following the successful attack against the network of the TV French Channel TV5Monde, law enforcement and French Intelligence started to investigate the attach chain. Link: Tv5Monde revealed his own passwords in an interview
Alongside the Great Firewall, China has been developing a new way to intercept and redirect internet traffic, according to a new report from Citizen Lab. Link: China’s ‘Great Cannon’ can intercept and redirect web traffic
At a workshop at Medill School of Journalism’s Washington, DC newsroom, David Reese (left) helps Amy McCullough (right), an editor for Air Force Magazine, install PGP encryption for her email. Behind, Aaron Rinehart helps Sarah Kinosian, a human rights worker, do the same. By J. Zach Hollo Link: Encryption Becomes a Part of Journalists’ Toolkit
Apple’s new iOS 8.3 update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is finally here and there are a lot of reasons to be excited. Now that Apple’s massive iOS 8.3 update is available to users around the world, we want to take a look at some reasons why you might want to install the iOS 8. Link: …
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Chinese attackers used the Great Firewall’s offensive sister-system, named the Great Cannon, to launch a recent series of distributed denial of service attacks targeting the anti-censorship site, GreatFire.org, and the code repository, Github, which was hosting content from the former. Link: Github Attack Perpetrated by China’s Great Cannon Traffic Injection Tool
