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Legislation Criminalizing Creation of Computer Viruses Enacted
Japan's parliament enacted legislation Friday criminalizing the creation or distribution of computer viruses to crack down on the growing problem of cybercrimes...
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Firms Adjust to Hacks
When email-marketing firm Epsilon Data Management discovered in March that hackers had stolen consumer email addresses it maintains for major banks and retailers...
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Internet Braces For New Addresses Beyond '.com,' Including '.bank,' '.eco' and '.canon.'
The organization that oversees the Internet address system is preparing to open the floodgates to a nearly limitless selection of new Web-site suffixes, including...
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All Your Bitcoins Are Ours
Malware authors move fast. Following on from the previous blog post on Bitcoin botnet mining, we have seen a recent Trojan in the wild targeting Bitcoin wallets...
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Government in Cyber Fight but Can't Keep Up
The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new...
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F.b.i. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household...
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Bitcoin: The Hacker Currency That's Taking Over the Web
Global, private and untraceable, it's the monetary system of choice for libertarians, geeks, businesspeople, and, apparently, drug kingpins.
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Who Is Behind the Hacks?
Every day there's another report of a computer hack. Yesterday it was a video game company and a U.S. Senate database. And today it could be the Federal Reserve...
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Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry
Think of it as a mansion with a high-tech security system—but the front door wasn’t locked tight.
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Air France Crash Suggestion: Have Planes Send Black Box Data By Satellite
When Air France flight 447 crashed on a stormy night off Brazil in 2009, it took its secrets with it to the bottom of the Atlantic. There was no distress call...
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.s. nderwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy "shadow" Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments...
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Arrests in Spain Don't Mean Sony's Troubles Are Over
The Spanish police say they've taken down three of the people allegedly behind the massive PlayStation Network security breach in April. But while it's probably...
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Information Flow Can Reveal Dirty Deeds
Political thrillers that portray a "web of corruption" get it all wrong, at least according to an analysis of emails between Enron employees. The flow of the...
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Sony's Kaz Hirai on the Psn Hack
Sony's deputy president about the PlayStation Network hack, PS Vita and PS3's enduring appeal.
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Rsa Gets a Security Chief
RSA, the computer security unit of EMC that was hacked, has named Edward Schwartz as chief security officer, promoting him from the same role at NetWitness, a...
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Emc's Rsa Security Breach May Cost Bank Customers $100 Million
The security breach at EMC Corp.'s RSA unit may cost the banking industry as much as $100 million to replace identification tokens that left their computers vulnerable...
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Many Stuxnet Vulnerabilities Still Unpatched
The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers...
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Ipv6 Day: Kicking the Tires of a Next-Gen Net Today
The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings...
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After Delay, Hacker to Show Flaws in Siemens Industrial Gear
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his...
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