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National Security Agency (NSA)

Just the way you swipe your smartphone screen is enough for your smartphone to identify you. Yes, it’s a Fact, not Fiction! The United States  National Security Agency (NSA)   has a new technology that can identify you from the way your finger swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen, according to officials with  Lockheed Martin  who helped design the technology. John Mears , a senior fellow for Lockheed IT and Security Solutions, told  NextGov  that Lockheed Martin has been working with the agency to create a " secure gesture authentication as a technique for using smartphones, " and " they are actually able to use it. "

VPN service

The bandwidth of Millions of users of a popular free VPN service is being sold without their knowledge in an attempt to cover the cost of its free service, which could result in a vast botnet-for-sale network. " Hola ," a free virtual private network, is designed to help people abroad watch region-restricted shows like American Netflix, and other streaming United States media. Hola is selling users' bandwidth: Hola is an easy-to-use browser plugin available in the Google Chrome Store with currently  more than 6 Million downloads . But, unfortunately, Hola could be used by hackers to maliciously attack websites, potentially putting its users at risk of being involved in illegal or abusive activities.