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Say Goodbye to the Password
Here's the fundamental problem with passwords: They are most effective in protecting a company when they are long, complicated and changed frequently. In other...
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Appeals Court Voices Concern About FCC Rule
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has concerns about the legality of FCC rules requiring equal treatment for all Internet traffic.
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A New 'dawn' in Exchanges' War on Hackers
When prices on some U.S. stocks suddenly zoomed one day last month and others unexpectedly plunged, stock-market officials set out to detect a possible computer...
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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...
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Fbi Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal...
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Google's Data-Trove Dance
In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy tool that would act as a kind of sliding scale...
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Big Data Spells Trouble For Consumer Privacy
Matt Valentine, head of Microsoft's enterprise solutions for Hong Kong, shares a key piece of advice with his five- and seven-year-old children: when it comes to...
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Phones Leave a Telltale Trail
The April robbery at the Cartier store in Chevy Chase, Md., was brazen and quick.
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Supreme Court Says Human Genes Aren't Patentable
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that human genes isolated from the body can't be patented, a victory for doctors and patients who argued that such...
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How Google Transfers Data to Nsa
How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure "file transfer protocol," or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.
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People's Locations Could Be Tracked
Data collected by the National Security Agency's program that monitors Americans' phone calls could be used to track millions of people's locations through their...
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Should Patents Be Awarded to Software?
The goal of the U.S. patent system is clear: to provide individuals or companies with an incentive to innovate by offering them 20 years of exclusive rights to...
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Bitcoin vs. Ben Bernanke
Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?
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Feathers Fly as New Rules Loom For Kids' Apps
Kids love Angry Birds, but will Angry Birds love them back?
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Visa Demand Jumps
For the first time since the financial crisis, U.S. employers are expected within days to reach a limit on the yearly allotment of applications for coveted skilled...
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Web Money Gets Laundering Rule
The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to "virtual currencies," amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit...
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.
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Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...
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