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Business Groups Object to Major Domain Name Expansion

Nov. 3, 2011     |     Entrepreneur.com

ICANN is pushing forward with its plan to add as many as 1,000 new top-level domains to the familiar line-up of .com, .org and .biz next year. But business groups are warning that the expansion may add up to big bills.


 
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Web Site Ranks Hacks and Bestows Bragging Rights

August 21, 2011     |     The New York Times

Hackers looking to show off their talents have piled into an upstart Web site called RankMyHack.com to submit evidence of their Web site hacks and have their feats measured against those of their peers.


 
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Dissolution of Hacker Group Might Not End Attacks

June 26, 2011     |     The New York Times

Facing pressure from law enforcement agencies over its brazen computer attacks, the hacker group known as Lulz Security announced that it would disband. But security experts said the move might not end the attacks. LulzSec members rejoined the hacker collective Anonymous and invited others to join a movement it calls "AntiSec."


 
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U.S. to Provide Guidelines to Bolster Computer Security

June 26, 2011     |     The New York Times

The Homeland Security Department plans to unveil a new system of guidance intended to help make the software behind many services — be they Web sites or power grids — less susceptible to hacking. The system includes an updated list of the top 25 programming errors that enable today’s most serious hacks, and new tools to aid software programmers and software buyers.

 
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Hacks at Citi and RSA

June 2011      |     The New York Times

I contributed to: Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry, about how breaches feed an underground market for fraudsters; Citi Data Theft Points Up a Nagging Problem about whether financial institutions have invested enough money to safeguard customer information; and RSA Faces Angry Users After Breach, about a customer backlash against a security firm that was hacked.


 
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U.S. Says It Shut Down Password Theft Network

April 14, 2011     |     The New York Times

The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said they took unorthodox steps to dismantle a giant international network of computers, known as the Coreflood botnet, that was used in an eight-year financial crime spree.

 

 
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How to Fix (or Kill) Web Data About You

April 14, 2011     |     The New York Times

As more of our lives take place online, we leave behind, purposely or not, a growing supply of personal information for marketers, employers, suitors and even thieves and stalkers to piece together.


 
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An Attack Sheds Light on Internet Security Holes

April 7, 2011     |     The New York Times

An attack on the Comodo Group by a talkative and professed patriotic Iranian hacker cast a spotlight on the global system that supposedly secures communications and commerce on the Web.


 
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