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Report Says U.S. Cybersafety Lacking – Post Chronicle
The U.S. government’s ability to fight cyberattacks on non-military computer systems is lacking on several fronts, including adequate personnel, a report said. In a report released Wednesday, Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner said the unit tasked with monitoring cyberattacks can’t …
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FBI to investigate AT&T iPad security breach – Financial Post
NEW YORK — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe into a security breach of Apple Inc’s iPad that exposed personal information of AT&T Inc customers. “The FBI is aware of these possible computer …
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NSA chief: U.S. carefully monitoring military computer … – Washington Post
government is seeing “hints” that adversaries are targeting military networks for “remote” sabotage, the head of the Pentagon’s recently … Keith Alexander, who also heads the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest intelligence agency. ”
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Apple probe grows — Media dealings eyed (Claire Atkinson/New York Post)
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Apple probe grows — Media dealings eyed — The Justice Dept.’s probe into Apple is expanding to include how the iPhone and iPad maker does business with media outfits in areas beyond music, The Post has learned. — According to several sources, the Justice Dept. has contacted a handful …
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Denver’s website hacked twice in one week – Denver Post
… such attack … proclaimed “VIRuS—Ra3ch was here,” and included a warning in code: “W3 C4n’t H4ck A4y Thing ~ But W3 H4ck Wh4t W3 W4nt & your Security Information Has Been Passed Off,” as well as an e-mail address and website. In Colorado …
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Local computer security expert investigates police practices – Seattle Post Intelligencer
Eric Rachner sits in the back of a police car the night he was arrested for obstructing an officer. This image is taken from video footage recorded by a camera inside the vehicle — footage that Seattle police long maintained had been erased. A …
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Apple’s iPad could be game-changer in digital-media censorship (Frédéric Filloux/Washington Post)
Frédéric Filloux / Washington Post:
Apple’s iPad could be game-changer in digital-media censorship — I live in a country (France) where censorship is a big deal. It comes mostly from greedy celebrities; they use a legal system that largely favors them. Often, they find a compassionate judge to rule on the issue …
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E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry (Marion Maneker/Washington Post)
Marion Maneker / Washington Post:
E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry — The evolution of publishing from print to digital has caused a schism in the reading world. There are now two constituencies: readers (and writers) on the one hand, and the publishing world on the other. And they don’t want to hear each other.
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