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SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

White Hats Use Heartbleed to Steal Keys

The tech industry reeled last week when security researchers discovered a flaw in a key security technology in the Internet's infrastructure ...

Consumers Can’t Stanch Heartbleeding

Consumers can do little to protect themselves from the catastrophic Heartbleed bug ...

Google Sees Glass in Businesses’ Future

Up to now, Google's smart eyeware, Glass, largely has been considered a diversion for gadget lovers, but the company on Tuesday announced a new program to encourage its use in the workplace ...

Microsoft Adds Sci-Fi Series to Xbox Originals

Microsoft added to its list of original programming for its Xbox gaming system Monday with the announcement of a new science fiction series called Humans. ...

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Americans Distrust Tech Companies

The steady stream of reports on government surveillance of Americans has taken a toll on the image of high-tech companies, according to a Harris poll ...

Google+ Changes Rules of Engagement

Gauging your popularity on Google's social network, Google+, got a little easier Tuesday, as the would-be Facebook competitor added page view analytics ...

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Clock Counting Down on Windows XP Support

As Microsoft prepares to cut off support for Windows XP, hackers are sharpening their knives in anticipation of carving up the operating system's carcass ...

Apple Patent Addresses Texting-Walking Risk

Texting while walking can be dangerous, but Apple could be aiming to make it less so, judging from a patent awarded Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...

HTC Flips Switch on One M8 Buzz Machine

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Headless Web Traffic Threatens Internet Economy

Bogus web traffic is creating a crisis for advertisers on the Web ...

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Twitter Bags Encryption Program

While Twitter rose to notoriety by being the place where people spilled the minutiae of their lives, there are times when its users don't want everyone in the online world to see what they're thinking. For those occasions, there's direct messaging ...

Alibaba Takes Tango for a Whirl

Alibaba is putting some skin in the mobile-messaging game with a US$215 million investment in Tango; the companies announced the funding on Thursday ...

Office for iPad May Be Waiting in Wings

Microsoft's tip of a news event next week triggered an avalanche of prophecy that the long-awaited version of Office for the iPad was about to be released. Microsoft is billing the event in San Francisco on March 27 as a "briefing and news focused on the intersection of cloud and mobile computing." ...

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Target Breach Lesson: PCI Compliance Isn’t Enough

"Target was certified as meeting the standard for the payment card industry in September 2013. Nonetheless, we suffered a data breach." Those words by Target Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Gregg Steinhafel affirmed what security experts know as gospel: Compliance does not equal security ...

Alibaba Seeks Treasure in US IPO

Alibaba, which controls 80 percent of the e-commerce in China, is going public -- but not in its native land ...

Target Missed Bull’s-Eye in Data Breach

Target acknowledged Thursday that it put information on a back burner that led to the compromise of more than 100 million customer records and will cost the company millions of dollars in losses ...

Feinstein Accuses Spooks of Spying on Senate

A powerful U.S. senator has accused the CIA of spying on a network drive legislative staffers used to prepare a report on abuses -- including torture -- in the agency's detention and interrogation program ...

2013: A Perilous Year on the Internet

Surfing the Internet last year was a dangerous proposition, and it isn't getting any safer.On average, 200 samples of malicious software were collected every minute by McAfee Labs, the company reported Monday in its threat report for the last quarter of 2013 ...

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Bad Ads Outstrip Porn as Mobile Phone Infection Vectors

Trawling porn sites used to be the best way to pick up an electronically transmitted disease on your smartphone. That's not the case anymore ...

1,000 Strikers Protest ‘Illegal’ Offer, Hours at IBM Factory in China

Workers at a factory in China are on strike after rejecting compensation plans offered as a result of IBM's US$2.3 billion deal to sell its low-end server business to Lenovo ...

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