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Earlier this year, Twitter admitted they lost personal information on 250,000 or so users to hackers. Other organizations, including the New York Times and the Federal Reserve, reported hackers had been inside their systems. The list of high profile hackings is so long that perhaps the day has come when companies should expect they will […]

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Hackers attacked the websites of the Czech central bank and major commercial banks, blocking their servers with massive numbers of requests, the banks said. The attack “targeted an external web server hosting the http://www.cnb.cz website,” the central bank CNB said on its Facebook page. Among commercial banks, hackers targeted Ceska sporitelna owned by Austria’s Erste […]

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Google says the FBI is monitoring the Web for potential terrorist activity. But it can’t say how extensive the surveillance is. As part of the Google Transparency Report, the Internet giant this week released data on so-called National Security Letters – official requests for data under the Patriot Act passed after the September 11, 2001 […]

India puts world’s first smartphone in space London: India has become the world’s first country to launch a smartphone into space – loaded with a number of experimental ‘Apps’, some serious and some just for fun.(Aldrich) The British-built Strand-1 spacecraft, developed by scientists in Surrey, was sent into orbit from Sriharikota in India to test […]

Over the next few years the U.S. Cyber Command, an army of 900 military personnel and civilians who monitor and defend against cyber attacks, is set to grow by 4,000 cyber soldiers. The command will expand its role in national defense by becoming a new kind of fighting force, one that protects the Internet safety […]