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LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

Posted September 23, 2013 - 12:06 am

LinkedIn denied over the weekend charges that the company breaks into the email accounts of its members without permission to harvest contacts' addresses.
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Life lessons from Apple’s forgotten founder

Posted September 18, 2013 - 6:00 am

Ronald Wayne missed out on a $35 billion fortune and has a surprisingly good attitude about it that we can all learn from
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Navy Yard shooter was IT worker with resume of gun violence

Posted September 17, 2013 - 10:27 am

The man police suspected of a mass shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, was employed by an IT subcontractor working on a government network project. He got that job despite having an arrest record for gun violence.
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Real names, real problems: Pseudonymity under siege

Posted September 17, 2013 - 6:00 am

As online services incorporate facial recognition and other biometric technologies to identify users, the notion of participating online using a name not found on your government-issued ID may become a quaint relic of the early Internet.
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Hack victims urged to share the gory details

Posted September 16, 2013 - 4:02 pm

Advanced Cyber Security Center fosters voluntary information sharing among private organizations as a way of staying ahead of the bad guys.
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Rogue hardware used in attempted cyberheist at Santander bank branch

Posted September 13, 2013 - 1:36 pm

A criminal gang attempted to plant a rogue hardware device on the network of a Santander bank branch in London to remotely control a computer and steal money.
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Zynga settles with employee over alleged theft of game secrets

Posted September 12, 2013 - 4:24 am

Zynga said it had settled a lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets by a former employee, with the employee also issuing an apology.
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Exploring Google Search's tenuous relationship with pirated content

Posted September 11, 2013 - 4:57 pm

Mountain View says it filters copyright-infringing content from its autocomplete function, but not all search filters are created equal.
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Micrografx targets Google, Motorola and Samsung with vector graphics patent suit

Posted September 11, 2013 - 7:02 am

Graphics software company Micrografx sued Google, its subsidiary Motorola Mobility, and Samsung Electronics for infringing three graphic patents by running Google Maps and Chrome Browser on their Android devices.
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Google loses appeal in Street View privacy lawsuit

Posted September 10, 2013 - 11:19 pm

A U.S. appeals court upheld a district court decision that Google's collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks under its Street View program is not exempt from federal wiretap laws.
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Legal battle between Cisco and Multiven flares up with EU antitrust complaint

Posted September 10, 2013 - 8:49 am

The feud between Cisco Systems and maintenance service provider Multiven has come to Europe with the filing of a new antitrust compliant over how Cisco provides software updates.
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Facebook, Google, Yahoo petition the government to break out more data requests

Posted September 9, 2013 - 2:03 pm

Facebook, Google and Yahoo on Monday filed petitions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as part of a renewed collective effort to provide more information to their users about government data requests.
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Google's rivals want to review new concessions in EU antitrust case

Posted September 9, 2013 - 7:25 am

Google's rivals on Monday called for a second full review of the search giant's latest proposed measures aimed at avoiding a fine from the European Commission for allegedly breaking competition rules.
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China frees journalist incriminated by Yahoo provided email records

Posted September 9, 2013 - 12:57 am

A Chinese journalist who was jailed because of incriminating email records provided by Yahoo has been freed by local authorities after serving over eight years in prison.
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IFA security stops man accused of stealing from trade show

Posted September 8, 2013 - 12:06 pm

With millions of dollars of gadgets on display, the temptation to steal from some of the world's largest electronics trade show can prove too strong for some.
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Yahoo: More than 12,000 US data requests led to disclosures more than 11,000 times

Posted September 6, 2013 - 2:21 pm

Yahoo received 12,444 requests from the U.S. government for user data in the first half of this year, resulting in 11,402 instances of data disclosure, it said Friday in its first transparency report.
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Court bars Apple from making industry-wide e-book deals

Posted September 6, 2013 - 11:30 am

The federal judge presiding over the U.S. electronic books case against Apple has barred the company from striking deals that would ensure that it could undercut prices of other retailers in the e-book market.
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Microsoft wins jury trial in patent dispute with Motorola

Posted September 4, 2013 - 10:57 pm

A jury in Seattle, Washington, has ruled in favor of Microsoft in a patent dispute with Motorola Mobility over standards patents, according to court records.
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FTC: Negligence by security camera vendor harms customers' privacy

Posted September 4, 2013 - 3:47 pm

Hundreds of people had private moments broadcast publicly over the Internet through security cameras they bought from a vendor that got in hot water with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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Two sentenced to prison for point-of-sale credit card theft

Posted September 4, 2013 - 1:15 pm

Two Romanian men were sentenced Wednesday to serve prison sentences for remotely hacking into hundreds of U.S. merchants' computers and stealing payment card data, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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File hosting service must scan for copyright infringing files, German federal court rules

Posted September 4, 2013 - 8:56 am

Online file locker services that, like Rapidshare, have a business model that provides an incentive to share copyright protected materials must monitor incoming links to discover infringing files, the German Federal Court of Justice has ruled.
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Ka-Ching! Apple ebook ruling could turn into real money for millions of Amazon customers

Posted September 2, 2013 - 12:23 pm

The direct results of the ebook price fixing scandal between Apple and the five major U.S. book publishers are one-step closer to turning into real money for millions of Amazon customers.
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Steve Ballmer reinvents himself [CARTOON]

Posted August 30, 2013 - 6:00 am

Microsoft’s soon-to-be ex-CEO follows Miley Cyrus’s lead and gives twerking a try
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Australian who boasted of hacking to plead not guilty to charges stemming from raid

Posted August 30, 2013 - 5:09 am

A 17-year-old Australian who in February claimed to have breached networks at Microsoft and Sony will plead not guilty to charges stemming from a police raid on his home.
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Is it time to start hacking the hackers?

Posted August 29, 2013 - 5:02 pm

In the light of unprecedented attacks by cybercriminals against businesses that span every industry, this question has come to the fore: Is it time to fight back?
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