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Day: July 12, 2015

8 insane ways your phone and computer can be hacked
ENGLISH, Technology

8 insane ways your phone and computer can be hacked

    ZhouHacking is the new spying. And, as we've learned time and time again, both government and private organizations are using cyber-spy techniques to gain as much intelligence as they can. But getting this data can be difficult. In fact, some of the most previous of digital information is safeguarded by machines that have no contact with the outside world. So can this internet-less data be hacked? Well, yes. With some help from the research of the security firm Kaspersky Lab, as well as some of our own personal digging, here's a look into some of the insane and creepy technologies used to hack offline devices. Both the US and the USSR have spent decades looking into the electromagnetic radiation that an electronic device emits. Kaspersky Lab writes that once a device...
How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State
ENGLISH, Europe

How Russia’s labor migration policy is fueling the Islamic State

    When American-trained Tajik special forces commander Col. Gumurod Khalimov defected to the Islamic State a few weeks ago, he issued a clarion call for hundreds of thousands of his countrymen working as migrant laborers in Russia to follow him. “Stop serving the infidels,” he said in a video that appeared online, prompting the Tajik government to block access to Facebook, YouTube and other social networks for several days. But local migrants and religious advocates say that if the Islamic State is recruiting from Tajikistan, it is driven more by economics than ideology. Since the start of the year, a new Russian migration law has required foreign workers from countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union customs bloc to pass Russian language and history tests, acquire ...
British schoolgirl ‘marries Australian Islamic State fighter in Syria’
Arab world, ENGLISH

British schoolgirl ‘marries Australian Islamic State fighter in Syria’

    Amira Abase, who fled Britain in February with two friends, has reportedly married Abdullah Elmir A British schoolgirl who fled to Syria to join Islamic State (Isil) has reportedly married a notorious Australian -born jihadist who threatened to carry out attacks in Britain. Amira Abase, 16, left the UK in February with two friends and was tracked down earlier this month by the Telegraph to Raqqa . There, she has reportedly married Abdullah Elmir, one of the youngest Western fighters to have joined Isil. Dubbed “the Ginger Jihadi” due to his hair colour, he fled Sydney last year for Syria and has since appeared in several Isil propaganda videos. Elmir sent a message to the Mail on Sunday newspaper confirming he had married Abase. He also threatened attacks in the...