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Hackers steal £56,000 in bitcoins from exchange site Bitcoinica
Bitcoin exchange site Bitcoinica suspended its operations on Friday after hackers managed to steal 18,547 bitcoins - valued at about £56,000 (US$90,000) - from its online wallet. The user database probably was compromised as well, Bitcoinica's administrators said in an announcement posted on the site's home page.
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ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet being developed by Lenovo and Intel
Lenovo is working with Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
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Yahoo heads for fourth CEO since 2009 as Scott Thompson goes
Embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has left the company, Yahoo announced Sunday, after more than a week of controversy over questions about embellishments to his CV.
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UK card fraud falling thanks to better transaction checks
The UK?s adoption of security technologies including chip & PIN has resulted in marked drops in credit and debit card fraud in the last four years and set an example other European countries should follow, analytics firm FICO has reported.
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FBI issues warning about using hotel Internet connections
The FBI today warned travelers there has been an uptick in malicious software infecting laptops and other devices linked to hotel Internet connections.
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HP to partner with F5 to speed delivery of cloud apps
HP this week unveiled several initiatives at Interop 2012 in Las Vegas to enhance the provisioning and performance of virtual applications over a network, including an alliance with application delivery controller leader F5.
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson apologises to employees for scandal
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson says he's sorry, but is not admitting any wrongdoing.
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Yahoo CEO and the missing computer science degree
The Yahoo board is to review a discrepancy in the resume of its CEO, Scott Thompson, and "make an appropriate disclosure" to its shareholders.
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Aspera helps Japanese genetics institute ease file transfer
The Japanese National Institute of Genetics (NIG) has chosen to deploy Aspera?s web-based Connect Server software to support its research in the field of life sciences.
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Researcher accidentally discloses unpatched Oracle database vulnerability
Instructions on how to exploit an unpatched Oracle Database Server vulnerability in order to intercept the information exchanged between clients and databases were published by a security researcher who erroneously thought that the company had patched the flaw.




