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Cybersecurity

Technology Focus: Cybertools Provide Little Immunity

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?
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Yahoo Probes Breach Of 450,000 User Accounts

Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, acknowledged a security breach of a Singapore-based server from which a hacker group may have extracted log-ins for as many as 450,000 user accounts.
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The highs do not last

'Sugar High' Is Only Fleeting in Skeptical Markets: Economist

Markets are losing the power to ride high after positive political developments, a worrying trend that might rain chaos on the best laid plans of central bankers and politicians looking to buy time to solve the financial crisis in Europe with grandiose statements.
Gold Rises For 4th Day, Eyes Technical Resistance

Gold, Metals Rising in Anticipation of Monetary Stimulus

Precious and industrial metals have been moving higher over the past few sessions in spite of fundamentals, suggesting commodities traders are loading up on the physical assets in anticipation of seeing at least one of the world's major central banks turn on the money spigots later this month.
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Technology Focus: Just How Will ?Big Data? Tap The Cloud?

By making the Internet universal and ubiquitous, though, technology also eroded corporate control. No longer will International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) or Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) completely control everything in their networks, despite their networks of worldwide data centers.
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LinkedIn Shares Rise Despite Security Breach

Shares of LinkedIn Corp. (Nasdaq: LNKD), one of the top professional social network sites, rose as much as 1 percent in early trading despite reports of security breaches of member passwords.
Syria

UN Speaks Loudly On Syria, But Doesn't Carry A Big Stick

The atrocities committed in the Syrian village of Houla on Friday -- when dozens of men, women, and children were killed, and hundreds more were wounded -- were condemned in the strongest possible terms by the United Nations Security Council on Sunday.
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UN Suspects North Korea Of Military Shipments To Syria, Myanmar

A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related shipments by the Communist state to Syria and Myanmar, the panel said in a confidential report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

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