Feb 06

After the first four “real” battlefields of land, air, sea and now increasingly space, India needs to get very serious about the virtual front as well. The country should begin planning a full-fledged military cyber command, instead of the current pie…
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Feb 06

Global healthcare provider Best Doctors employs the most robust technologies and practices available to protect the privacy of its members’ personal data—but that’s just a part of doing business in this industry. Less obvious but equally important is…
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Feb 05

Some consumers get confused and shell out money thinking they’re getting the real app, when they’re actually buying a counterfeit….
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Feb 03

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today officially asked all parties involved in the Megaupload criminal case to refrain from deleting any data stored on servers once leased by the file-hosting service—and it suggested it was willing to sue ov…
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Feb 03

AMD today laid out its plans for the next couple of years at its Financial Analyst Day. The plans are a mix of familiar and logical extensions of the company’s current products, but contained some more surprising elements: specifically, AMD opened the …
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Feb 03

After his Xbox Live account was stolen, Josh had to file a Better Business Bureau complaint in order to make MIcrosoft pay attention to him and restore his account access. After three months, he was delighted to log back in to his account, but surprise…
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Feb 03

VeriSign, the company responsible for guiding most of the world’s Internet users to the correct websites and once the largest encryption certificate issuing authority, has acknowledged that it was successfully hacked several times in 2010.
The admissio…
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Feb 03

Facebook’s initial public offering got more attention from the digerati than most superstars garner in any given day.
Much digital ink was spilled in anticipation, but much more is sure to come as investors, analysts and journalists scour the social …
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Feb 03

A new Android Trojan employs server-side polymorphism to generate unique variants…
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Feb 03

The Bouncer service analyzes apps in Android Market for known malware, spyware, and trojans…
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