"white-hat hackers have devised a feat even more seminal—an exploit that transforms keyboards, Web cams, and other types of USB-connected devices into highly programmable attack platforms that can't be detected by today's defenses."

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It appears the time has come in this country for everyone to do with less...

"it's possible that no amount of discounting will win back these struggling shoppers. "

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"if consumers don’t start to demand that companies pay the price for these breaches, the current data breach epidemic likely will never end"

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"The report analyzed 2013 credit data from TransUnion to calculate how many Americans were falling behind on their bills. It looked at how many people had non-mortgage bills, such as credit card bills, child support payments and medical bills, that are so past due that the account has since been closed and placed in collections."

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"Koret's analysis also suggests that antivirus companies fail by requiring overly extensive privileges, not signing product updates and delivering those over insecure HTTP, running excessive old code and not conducting proper source code reviews and fuzzing."

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I wondered how long it would take for this test to be done...

"The participants never got on real roads. Instead, they drove for about 40 minutes behind the wheel of NADS, a federally funded simulator that can mimic the look and feel of everything from urban parking lots to darkened gravel roads. Deer jump out unexpectedly. Passing cars swerve."

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"Verizon Wireless has been trying to coax its remaining unlimited data customers onto its tiered plans for years, and starting this fall it’s providing one more disincentive to remain with its grandfathered all-you-can-eat plans."

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A glimpse and key reason for HIPAA and the state's ultimate possession and control of all health information...building the most effecient and effective "death panels" begins with our data.

"Called Baseline Study, the project will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more—to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be."

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"Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today. Cybercriminals no longer send out thousands of emails at random hoping to get a handful of hits, today they create highly targeted phishing emails which are tailored to suit their recipients."

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"The business-friendly solid-state-storage lineup comes in 2.5-inch and M.2 formats with capacities up to 480GB."

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"A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn. "

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"The newest variant of Android/Simplocker displays the ransom note in English and asks for a higher ransom of $300. The latest version also encrypts a wider range of file types and is more difficult to uninstall from devices than previous versions of Simplocker, which first surfaced in late May."

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"Turning its back on Microsoft Office's native formats, the UK government has adopted the Open Document Format for all its sharable documents."

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"Check out these 5 real-time websites that'll change the way you view the world, or at least change the way you view online privacy."

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"President Barack Obama's administration claims that any company with operations in the United States must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas."

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