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Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?
If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.
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LinkedIn aims to keep hackers out with two-factor login
Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication.
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Commission wants to turn tables on IP thieves by crippling PCs with extortion-style lock-outs
Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims.
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FBI briefs US bank executives on wave of cyberattacks
The FBI has reportedly briefed US bank executives on a wave of cyberattacks that have lashed the industry since last summer as part of a new policy designed to foster co-operation between the state and private sectors.
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Hacker leaks Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell's unpublished book after email raid
The increasingly tricksy hacker known as ?Guccifer? has struck again, this time posting links to the first 50 pages of an unpublished novel by Sex and the City author, Candace Bushnell.
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Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks
Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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D-Link firmware flaws could allow IP video stream spying
If you run a bank and use an IP video camera from D-Link, you may want to pay attention to this.
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Boeing technology offers secure, efficient way to tie together business, industrial nets
The Boeing Company is pioneering a way to securely bring together business IT networks with what ordinarily are entirely separate networks for industrial-control systems (ICS) in order to gain efficiencies and benefits in information-sharing in manufacturing.
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Former LulzSec member jailed for Sony Pictures hack
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database.
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Cisco, Brocade, Riverbed, HP among Best of Interop finalists
Nearly two dozen products have been selected as Best of Interop finalists, with winners set to be announced on May 7 during the annual Interop Las Vegas conference.
