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Hacker reveals vulnerable global Internet
Mar 25, 2013
An anonymous researcher has found that all sorts of devices connected to the Internet are protected only by the easy-to-guess default passwords that the equipment came with when new.
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It's Patch Tuesday! Party time!
Mar 11, 2013
For IT professionals, Microsoft has invented a holiday -- of sorts. The second Tuesday of every month is the day Microsoft releases the latest batch of security patches for it's software: Patch Tuesday. This week, the company has more than half-dozen security fixes, as cyber threats mount for Microsoft and Apple software.
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Companies look to make 'big data' into safe data
Mar 4, 2013
At the RSA computer security conference in San Francisco last week, a key theme was not what companies can and should do with customer data, but what crooks might do with it if they hacked in.
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What the Apple-Samsung verdict means for your apps
Aug 28, 2012
How the jury's decision in the patent infringement case could change things for app developers.
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Visa cardholders hit by data breach, blackout
Apr 2, 2012
Visa has dropped card processor Global Payments after a big data breach on Friday. It compromised the credit card information of more than a million cardholders.
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National hackery
Nov 18, 2011
From Norway to the U.S., systems are vulnerable...
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Pentagon talks about the 2008 hack that redefined U.S. cyber policy
Aug 26, 2010
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III writes in the latest issue of Foreign Policy about the 2008 hack into a military laptop he...
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