"Eighteen brands of security camera digital video recorders (DVRs) are vulnerable to an attack that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of the devices to watch, copy, delete or alter video streams at will, as well as to use the machines as jumping-off points to access other computers behind a company’s firewall, according to tests by two security researchers. And one of the researchers, security firm Rapid7′s chief security officer H.D. Moore, has discovered that 58,000 of the hackable video boxes, all of which use firmware provided by the Guangdong, China-based firm Ray Sharp, are accessible via the Internet."

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"As a mist showers down onto a man from a spigot on the ceiling, some might think it’s a shower, but it’s not. It’s SmartWater. You could call it a crime fighting spray. Under a special light, you’ll see why. It leaves a harmless chemical staining the skin and clothes, explains SmartWater Founder Philip Cleary. It’s the latest crime-fighting tool being introduced in Fort Lauderdale. It’s already used in Europe and can be used in several ways."

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"The Pentagon has approved a major expansion of its cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its size more than fivefold to bolster the nation’s ability to defend critical computer systems and conduct offensive computer operations against foreign adversaries, according to U.S. officials."

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"Facebook announced Graph Search in mid-January, but it has not officially launched. According to company materials and some independent reports, however, the program cracks open Facebook’s warehouse of personal information to allow searching and data-mining on a large portion of Facebook’s one billion users. Users who set their profiles to "public" are about to be exposed to their largest audience ever."

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"We have included below the full text of the email Facebook sent to potential claimants to help those who received the email determine if it's legitimate and also for those who may have deleted it, thinking it was part of a scam. If you received this Facebook email, do you plan to file a claim hoping to get your $10? Or, will you just opt to do nothing?"

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"The inquiry, which was started by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. last June, is examining leaks about a computer virus developed jointly by the United States and Israel that damaged nuclear centrifuges at Iran’s primary uranium enrichment plant. The U.S. code name for the operation was Olympic Games, but the wider world knew the mysterious computer worm as Stuxnet."

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"To get started, select either hardware or software from the product types below, and then review specific features, including sample images where available."

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"Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk. Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that pick up your heartbeat from behind concrete walls. Algorithms that can tell identical twins apart. Eyebrows and earlobes that give you away. A new generation of technologies is emerging that can identify you by your physiology. And unlike the old crop of biometric systems, you don't need to be right up close to the scanner in order to be identified. If they work as advertised, they may be able to identify you without you ever knowing you've been spotted."

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"Athens, Ga.-based Zaxby's Franchising Inc. on Friday announced that malware capable of extracting names, credit and debit card numbers of customers were found on systems at nearly roughly 100 of its 560 locations."

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"Oracle addressed 86 flaws across 10 product groups in its quarterly Critical Patch Update. Some of the high-risk vulnerabilities, if exploited, would allow attackers to take over an underlying Windows server."

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"For years the cable industry insisted that they imposed usage caps because network congestion made them necessary. You'll recall that Time Warner Cable insisted that if they weren't allowed to impose caps and overages the Internet would face 'brown outs.' Cable operators also paid countless think tanks, consultants and fauxcademics to spin scary yarns about a looming network congestion 'exaflood,' only averted if cable operators were allowed to raise rates, impose caps, eliminate regulation or (insert pretty much anything here)."

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" It begins when you pop on your headlight, sending a tunnel of light into the darkening forest... But mountain biking at night doesn't officially begin until you drop downhill, swooping between trees and around curves on trails that appear little more than wormholes into the abyss."

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"The people behind one of the most sophisticated cyber- espionage attacks ever carried out began dismantling its infrastructure hours after it was made public."

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"We take a look at some of the Start menu alternatives for Windows 8."

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