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Report: Big Biz Shakes Off Hack Attacks

A lot of noise has been made about the consequences of data breaches for companies, but a recent survey of some of the largest U.S. businesses may have wrapped those noisemakers in a muffler ...

Google Gives Play a Spring Cleaning

Google has revamped its Google Play Android app with designs on making it easier to use and better for discovering content. The search giant is also thinning its app catalog by removing what it considers to be low quality offerings. ...

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Trusteer Ventures Into the Chinese Hackers’ Den

China has a reputation as a center for international hacking, so why would a U.S. security company want to set up shop there? ...

Feds Crown Winners of Robocall Whacking Contest

Nothing steams consumers like robocalls, which is why the Federal Trade Commission launched a contest last year calling for ideas to tackle the nuisance. The winners of that challenge were announced Tuesday ...

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Scant Brain Power Behind Massive DDoS Attack

One of the largest denial of service attacks in the history of the Internet didn't take rocket science to execute ...

Linux Devs Take Win 8 Secure Boot Complaint to EC

Microsoft is once again being challenged in Europe over alleged anti-competitive practices ...

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Cyberattackers Brewed Special Malware Cocktail for South Korea

Cybersecurity news had a distinctive international flavor last week ...

Feds Probe Microsoft Whistleblower’s Bribery Accusations

Two federal agencies are reportedly probing the relationship between Microsoft and business partners in China, Italy and Romania that allegedly bribed foreign officials to land software contracts ...

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Spam Boom Prompts Call for Businesses to Ditch Email

Just when we thought the spam scourge was over, it appears it's making a comeback ...

‘Subversive’ Site Aims to Be Pirate Bay of 3D Printing

Computer printers aren't typically linked with the word "subversive," but that's the mission of a new site for 3D printer files ...

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Phishers Cast Longlines to Hook More Victims

Phishing and spear phishing have long been thought to be mutually exclusive hacking tricks, but cybercrooks have found a way to combine the two in a technique called longline phishing ...

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China on Cyberattacks: US Is Pot Calling the Kettle Black

After taking it on the chin for its alleged attacks on U.S. media outlets -- and for its army reportedly backing hackers engaged in cyberespionage around the world -- China returned fire ...

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Hacks, Hijacks and Hunts for Chinese Data Thieves

Still smarting from a recent attack on its systems, Facebook started its week with a discovery by researchers at Bitdefender that an infected add-on at the Chrome Web Store was planting malware on its members' computers. The malware, among other things, was padding the Like counts on dummy Facebook pages ...

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A Porous Perimeter Perplexes Security Pros

While it's a nasty pill to swallow for old-line security folks, the perimeter isn't what it used to be. The days when a company could hide behind its firewall and feel secure are gone ...

Intel Chips In With Its Own Web TV Service

Intel is getting inside Internet TV ...

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Attack on Fed Exposes Weak Patch Maintenance

While many Americans watched the wrap-up of the Super Bowl Feb. 3, the band of hackers called Anonymous broke into a Web-facing server at the Federal Reserve and pilfered a list of some 4000 people who work in the banking industry -- many of them ranking executives at banks and credit unions ...

Fatigued Users Fall Away From Facebook

Tired of Facebook? You're not alone ...

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NYT Hack Shows Gaping Holes in Traditional Security Systems

After The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal revealed last week that their computer systems had been compromised by Chinese hackers, the Journal reported that the FBI has been probing attacks on U.S. media outlets for more than a year ...

DoJ Tosses Monkey Wrench Into Sprint-Softbank Merger Plans

Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday asked the Federal Communications Commission to put the brakes on the pending Sprint-Softbank merger ...

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Brace Yourself for the Post-PC Threat Era

It was inevitable. As computing has evolved, so has its nemesis: malware. ...

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