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Clear your cache: Websites store personal data on your Web browser
Sensitive financial and healthcare information is stored on Web browsers, making it easily accessible to hackers, a new analysis has found. Web browsers – Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer – often save images and other content on...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., Google+, GEICO, Verizon Wireless, Equifax Incorporated
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NSA chief says programs disrupted 50 terrorist plots
Under growing pressure over recently disclosed surveillance programs, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers Tuesday that gathering telephone data and monitoring Internet use has helped to disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist events"...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Fort Meade (military base), Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism
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Security is found off-line
More than a decade ago, I ordered a book from a publisher specializing in technical books. I then received notice that my credit card information, along with hundreds of others, had been compromised by an Internet hacker who had penetrated the publisher's...Tags: Linux, Book, U.S. Army, Computer Networking and Internet, U.S. Postal Service
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Web services speed ahead with ways to bolster customer security
In late February, a thief or thieves cracked into Evernote's digital vault filled with log-ins, passwords and email addresses belonging to 50 million users. It was a shocking cyber attack considering the Redwood City, Calif., company offers online lockers...
Tags: Computer Hardware, Media Industry, Electronics, Email, University of California, Berkeley
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China has several options on Edward Snowden
BEIJING — With Edward Snowden in Hong Kong dribbling out morsels on U.S. cyber surveillance activities to the press, Chinese authorities have several choices for dealing with him. Their options include offering asylum to the former U.S....Tags: South China Morning Post Limited, Beijing (China), Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, National Security Agency
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Snowden alleges U.S. hacking against China, Hong Kong
BEIJING -- Edward Snowden told Hong Kong media that the United States is involved in extensive hacking operations directed against China and Hong Kong. In an interview with the South China Morning Post published on the newspaper’s website early...
Tags: Extradition, South China Morning Post Limited, Communist Party of China, Beijing (China), Crime, Law and Justice
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Theater patrons exposed in data breach
Patrons of several local theaters may be at risk for credit card fraud or identity theft after a box office service based in California was hacked. Touchstone Theatre in Bethlehem, the drama department at Cedar Crest College in Allentown and the Lehigh...Tags: Cedar Crest College, Media Industry, Theft, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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State Plan For Cyber Threats To Electric Grid Taking Shape
The Hartford CourantDan Esty, the state's energy commissioner, sat across a conference table from Art House, Connecticut's head utility regulator, in the bunker of the State Armory in Hartford last July for a drill that simulated a statewide response to a major hurricane....Tags: Leon Panetta, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Energy Saving, Electronics
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US: No plans to end broad surveillance program
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration considered whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified surveillance secrets while it defended the broad U.S. spy program that it says keeps America safe from terrorists. Facing a...Tags: Macungie, Government Contracts, The Associated Press, Central Intelligence Agency, Adam B. Schiff
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Obama, Chinese president wrap up a sometimes contentious summit
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, wrapped up a summit at this sweltering California desert resort Saturday after nearly eight hours of talks over two days and a candle-lit dinner aimed at shaping what...
Tags: Communist Party of China, Environmental Issues, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Theft, Beijing (China)
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Obama orders list of foreign cyber-targets
WASHINGTON — President Obama has ordered his national security team to draw up a secret target list for possible cyber-attacks, a major expansion of U.S. planning for disabling and hacking into foreign computer networks, according to a copy of the...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Central Intelligence Agency, Xi Jinping, Computer Networking and Internet
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Measuring identity theft protection services
Watchdog with Paul MuschickPeople occasionally ask me what I know about companies that offer identity theft protection services and whether they are worth the cost. I haven't explored that issue, but the Consumer Federation of America has, and it issued an update this......
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