Robert Lemos

A hundred years after an asteroid flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest in Russia, scientists are proposing to use satellites to keep tabs on potential repeat occurrences.
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The National Retail Federation sends a letter asking that its members be allowed to decide what credit-card data to keep.
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A Congressional committee claims that Unisys allowed malicious code to infect federal systems.
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Numerous account holders complained over the past year that the consumer brokerage had sold or leaked e-mail addresses to pump-and-dump spammers.
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Federal prosecutors charge former security consultant Max Butler, better known amongst security researchers as “Max Vision,” alleging that he supplied and managed a ring of identity thieves.
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The security researcher that posted the e-mail addresses and passwords for 100 accounts at embassies and political groups reveals that he exploited the victims’ incorrect usage of the Tor Project’s anonymous Web surfing software.
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Twice in two weeks, the nation has been taken to task for breaching other nations’ systems, but officials continue to deny the accusations.
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A Trojan horse mines Monster.com for personal details that could make fraudulent e-mail schemes more convincing, while evidence mounts that other job sites are also being attacked.
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Researchers find that browsers and plug-ins could be exploited to turn a victim’s computer into a door to the internal network. One study finds an attack could claim 100,000 IP addresses in three days.
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Universities and colleges could find more students interested in computer-science courses, if the teachers taught practical hacking, educators say.
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