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Ars Technica
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New laws going into effect today in the United Kingdom make it a crime to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data requested by authorities as part of a criminal or terror investigation. Individuals who are believed to have the cryptographic keys neces..
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MSNBC
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A disk carrying the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state worker’s car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.
Strickland said it takes special equipment to access the..
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MSNBC
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Faced with legal demands from state attorneys general, MySpace.com said Monday it will release data on registered sex offenders it has identified and removed from the popular social networking Web site.
The company, citing federal privacy laws, initial..
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Yahoo News
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A hacker or hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of shoppers at off-price retailers including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls in a case believed to be the largest such breach of consumer information.
For the first time since dis..
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SF Gate
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A hacker or hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of shoppers at off-price retailers including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls in a case believed to be the largest such breach of consumer information.
For the first time since dis..
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en.epochtimes.com
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In five years, the U.S. government will cease to use SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm) and convert to a new and more advanced computer data encryption, according to the article "Security Cracked!" from New Scientist . The reason for this change is that 41-y..
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Technology Review
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Researchers at Samsung, one of the leading producers of flash-memory chips, recently announced a new chip that can hold twice as much data as before, and without an increase in its footprint on a circuit board. They were able to double the data capacity b..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?..
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CNET
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A U.K. law has been passed that makes it an offense to launch denial-of-service attacks, which experts had previously called "a legal gray area."..
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BBC News
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The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites.
Its "data availability" project will let members share public profile information with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket..
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BBC News
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Ad-targeting system Phorm must be "opt in" when it is rolled out, says the Information Commissioner Office (ICO)
European data protection laws demand that users must choose to enrol in the controversial system, said the ICO in an amended statement...
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BBC News
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Handheld gadgets storing thousands of hours of film footage could soon be a reality thanks to IBM scientists.
Researchers for the computer giant are working on a technology known as racetrack memory which uses tiny magnetic boundaries to store data...
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MSNBC
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The international Cassini spacecraft collected science data on mysterious geysers spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus and recorded new images of its surface during a close flyby, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Thursday.
The pass Wednesday b..
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BBC News
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Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown.
Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory.
It was previously thought that data held..
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BBC News
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Marks and Spencer has been found in breach of data protection rules after the theft of a laptop containing the personal details of 26,000 employees.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the data on the laptop, which was stolen from the home..
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MSNBC
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Two-way data streams promised
Other systems, such as one from the French company Mobile Devices, incorporate real-time data in the other direction, collecting information from users on the road to warn drivers of traffic snarls and to alert them to ava..
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BBC News
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Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, a committee of MPs has said.
Currently, government departments cannot be held criminally responsible for data protection breaches.
But a report on the "truly shocking"..
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MSNBC
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Nintendo's Wii held on to its spot as the No. 1 video game console in the United States in November, selling 981,000 units, industry data showed on Thursday.
It was the Wii's best showing for the console since its November 2006 launch, topping last Dec..
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BusinessWeek
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Usama Fayyad is helping the Internet giant figure out how to harness the massive amount of data it collects in ways that profit advertisers and protect Web users
Usama Fayyad's colleagues say he battles monsters for a living. In the elite engineering c..
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BBC News
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Animal rights activists are thought to be the first Britons to be asked to hand over to the police keys to data encrypted on their computers.
The request for the keys is being made under the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)...
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