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jaikumarvijayan
Member since: April 2011
Bio: Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld. Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan.
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Applications for domestic drone licenses are increasing steadily, even as privacy concerns related to their use over the U.S. continue to mount. Some states are even moving to ban them all together.
14 weeks 4 days ago
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Secret review shows executive office has broad power to act in cyber emergency.
15 weeks 2 hours ago
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RSA has unveiled a new tool designed to let enterprises detect security threats more quickly than current technologies permit by combining big data management and analytics approaches with traditional network monitoring and threat detection.
15 weeks 5 days ago
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A password made up of a phrase or short sentence may be more secure than a carefully constructed long one, countering the recommendations of some security experts.
16 weeks 4 days ago
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Google's Transparency Reports, released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they do not reveal.
16 weeks 4 days ago
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An individual who inadvertently exposes the contents of his computer over an unsecured wireless network still has a reasonable expectation of privacy against a search of those contents by the police, a federal judge in Oregon ruled last week.
16 weeks 6 days ago
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Showing what can happen when companies don't periodically review network logs, a software developer working for a large U.S. critical infrastructure company hired a Chinese firm to do his job so he could spend time surfing Reddit and watching cat videos.
17 weeks 5 days ago
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Whitehouse.gov petition gets 40,000 signatures in four-plus days; beats deadline for increased threshold so White House must respond
17 weeks 6 days ago
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The suicide of Internet activist and pioneer Aaron Swartz has focused attention on what some activists say is the overzealous use of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act anti-hacking statute.
18 weeks 13 hours ago
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A last-minute move by the U.S. Senate to renew a controversial wiretapping law, days before it was set to expire on Dec. 31, has dismayed privacy advocates, rights groups and lawmakers who have long opposed the measure.
18 weeks 4 days ago
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John Brennan, nominated today by President Barack Obama to be the director of the CIA, has been a vocal advocate for federal cybersecurity legislation in recent months.
19 weeks 1 day ago
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Employers in Illinois and California cannot ask for usernames and passwords to the personal social media accounts of employees and job seekers under laws that took effect on Jan. 1.
19 weeks 4 days ago
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More DDoS attacks on banks, cyberwarfare, and targeted attacks could well be in store in 2013, security experts warn.
19 weeks 5 days ago
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Verizon's attempt -- unsuccessful so far -- to secure a patent for a so-called 'snooping technology,' which in this case would let television advertisers target individual viewers based on what they're doing or saying in front of their sets, capped another challenging year for privacy advocates.
20 weeks 4 days ago
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A man who admitted to illegally accessing email accounts belonging to more than four dozen celebrities to steal their private photos and confidential documents was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison by a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles on Monday.
22 weeks 3 hours ago
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[chunklet] Software pioneer John McAfee is escorted by immigration officers to the Guatemalan Airport in Guatemala City December 12, 2012.
22 weeks 6 days ago
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[chunklet] John McAfee, anti-virus software guru, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Guatemala City December 5, 2012.
22 weeks 6 days ago
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The U.S. Patent Office has delivered a "non-final" rejection of a Verizon patent application for a controversial technology that would have served targeted ads to TV viewers based on what they might be doing or saying in front of their sets.
23 weeks 4 days ago
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[chunklet] John McAfee, anti-virus software guru, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Guatemala City December 5, 2012.
23 weeks 5 days ago
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[chunklet] John McAfee, anti-virus software guru, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Guatemala City December 5, 2012.
23 weeks 5 days ago
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Citigroup is cutting 11,000 jobs, many in IT, as part of a restructuring announced Wednesday. The job cuts are part of a plan to save about $900 million through a variety of actions, including "increasing standardization and the use of automated processes," as well as streamlining the organizational structure.
23 weeks 6 days ago
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Fugitive anti-virus technology pioneer John McAfee, who is being sought by Belize authorities in connection with the murder of his neighbor there, described himself as a "foolish man" in an interview televised on CN
24 weeks 1 day ago
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The Internet shutdown in Syria likely took very little to accomplish considering the country's limited Internet infrastructure and international connectivity, network analysts said Friday.
24 weeks 4 days ago
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A group of current and former contractors at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) may file a lawsuit due to the possible exposure of personal information stored on an agency laptop stolen last month from a locked car, their lawyer said Wednesday.
24 weeks 6 days ago
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A Maine construction company that sued its bank after losing $345,000 in an online banking heist has settled its dispute after a protracted legal battle that raised questions about the bank's responsibility in protecting customer accounts against cyber fraud.
25 weeks 6 hours ago
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