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The New York Times Says It Was Not Hacked
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-28
Internet users were startled Dec. 28 when they received an email from The New York Times regarding their home delivery service. Most of the recipients didn't even have a subscription with
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HP Closes Firmware Flaw, Says No Reports of Exploits
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-27
Just before Christmas, Hewlett-Packard released a firmware update on its Website for some of its HP LaserJet printers to mitigate an issue in how the printers could be upgraded
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GoDaddy Retracts SOPA Support in Face of Customer Outrage
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-23
SOPA opponents win a skirmish as domain registrar GoDaddy publicly backed down from supporting the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act on Dec. 23.
A small business owner
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House Committee Postpones SOPA Debate to January
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-16
As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee postponed further debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act until January, when Congress comes back from the holiday
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FTC Reimburses Fake Antivirus Scam Victims
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-10
In the "How Cool is This?" files, the Federal Trade Commission has decided to send reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people who have been victims of a rogue antivirus scam.
The checks are the result of a settlement between the agency and several defendants named in a complaint file by
Vendors Release Carrier IQ Scanning Tools
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-12-05
Mobile device owners worried whether the Carrier IQ software is installed on their mobile devices now can use apps designed to scan and detect the network diagnostic tool.
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Why Security Concerns Should Not Deter Journey to Cloud
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2011-12-01
By David Hunter
Recent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud. Yet, amid all the hand-wringing about perceived
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Should I Change My Password? Yes!
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-11-07
With all the personal data that has been leaked via Website attacks and data breaches this year, Internet users may be wondering if their accounts had been compromised.
A Web service that informs users if they had been compromised sounds like a potentially good thing, but the concept could be
Tango Down: WikiLeaks
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-24
WikiLeaks has run out of money and shut its doors, according to a note on the whistleblower site.
WikiLeaks blamed the situation on an "unlawful financial blockade" imposed on the site by several financial
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SEC Warns Employees of Potential Misuse of Brokerage Data
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-15
The Securities and Exchange Commission warned staffers their personal brokerage account information may have been compromised, according to Reuters.
The contractor hired to
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Hackers Target Bankers' Personal Data as Part of "Occupy Wall Street"
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-14
The same group that went targeted information belonging to Goldman Sachs CEO and a New York police officer has struck again.
Members of "CabinCr3w" posted personal data belonging to The New York Community Bank's Joseph Ficalora and Kerry Killinger on to Pastebin on Oct. 14. The data dump was in support
RIM, Bank of America Outages Weren't Part of a Hack
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-12
Nowadays, when a Website is unavailable, may people immediately assume it has been hacked. However, sometimes, it is just a software or hardware glitch.
The most recent example
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German Government Spyware Capable of Snooping, Remote Updates
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-11
A software program used to intercept online communications is capable of doing much more, the German Government has admitted.
The program, Quellen-TKU, was submitted
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Law Allows Government to See Who You Are Emailing
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-10
Government officials were able to secretly order Google and Internet service provider Sonic to hand over an individual's personal email records as part of their investigation into
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Microsoft Executes Own Disaster Recovery Plan Post-Japan Earthquake
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2011-10-06
Worried about aftershocks, Microsoft undertook a massive data migration project following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan in March.
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