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Anonymous Hackers Replace Police Supplier Website With ‘Tribute to Jeremy Hammond’

Anonymous Hackers Attack Police Distributor Website
Anonymous hacktivists announced via Twitter that they had successfully hacked the website of New York Iron Works, a police-equipment supplier, and replaced the homepage with a tribute of love to arrested hacker and Chicagoan Jeremy Hammond. Anonymous also claimed responsibility for several other hacks on March 8, including knocking Peruvian government website http://policiainformatica.gob.pe/ offline, and posting the personal information of FBI agents in a public online message board in what the...
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Wall Street higher after jobs data

Stocks rose on Friday, adding to their best two-day run in nearly three months, after a report showed the economy added more jobs than expected in February.
For a while it was just your mother's maiden name, then your first pet, the street you grew up on or the make and model of your first car. As passwords and security questions multiply, so does the potential for things to go wrong, possibly locking you out

Online Security: Why It's Taxing Our Brains

For a while it was just your mother's maiden name, then your first pet, the street you grew up on or the make and model of your first car. As passwords and security questions multiply, so does the potential for things to go wrong, possibly locking you out of your own life.
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Accused Irish LulzSec Hacker Worked in Security

One of the people accused by authorities of being at the core of Lulz Security, perhaps the most feared hacking group on the planet, led a nonprofit group in Galway, Ireland, dedicated to making websites more secure.
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IBM Breakthrough: Trillion-Bit Chip Moves Light Faster

IBM researchers have developed an optical chip that can transmit as much as a terabit, or 1 trillion bits, of data per second using commercially available products -- a breakthrough that could revolutionize computing.
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Facebook Adds Women, Minority-Owned Banks for IPO

Facebook Inc added several women- and minority-owned investment banks to the roster of underwriters for its initial public offering, following in the footsteps of General Motors Co and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, which did the same during their own offerings.
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Titanic: Did Supermoon and Killer Iceberg Conspire to Sink the Ocean Liner? (Photos)

In about a few weeks' time, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic will be coming up. The sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912, is one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the human history, claiming 1,517 lives. To date, the mystery behind the reason why Titanic sank has not been solved fully. However, a new theory by Texas State University's astronomers suggests that a a rare lunar event could have conspired against the Titanic by creating hazardous sea...
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Jersey Shore Season 6: Rumors Fly, JWoww Sued

JWoww--the curvy cast member of the Jersey Shore and recent Maxim cover model--is being sued for more than $150,000 because she never warned her landlord that she planned to allow the show be filmed inside her home according to a TMZ report. The lawsuit says that JWoww leased a residence in Long Island in 2008 from someone named Stuart Levine. Once she moved in, JWoww allowed 495 Productions to shoot a few scenes for the first season of Jersey Shore.
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The Tribeca Film Festival Spotlight Series Announced

The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival has announced its 2012 film sections for the popular Spotlight and Cinemania series. The festival, which was started by Robert DeNiro after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, takes place from April 18th to April 29th.
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Wells Fargo To Charge $7 Fee In 6 More States

Wells Fargo & Co., the bank with the most U.S. branches, is ending free checking in six eastern U.S. states starting in May, expanding a $7 monthly service fee for the use of its basic checking account.

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