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DEFCON Kids: Grooming Next Generation White Hat Hackers

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Some of the most explosive teenage talent in the world is engrossed in the dark art of illegal hacking and waging cyber wars on governments and corporations. And then there are those young children who master the art of legal hacking in schools run by former hacking wizards.
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AntiSec Retaliates Against Police by Stealing 10 Gigs of Law Enforcement Data

Online hackers AntiSec retaliated against police by breaching 10 gigabytes of sensitive data from more than 70 U.S. law enforcement Web sites. The hackers said they retrieved emails, credit card information and other sensitive data in retaliation against the arrests of alleged members accused of hacking into the CIA, Britain's Serious Organized Crimes Agency, or SOCA, and Sony.
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Oracle, other companies punkd in hacking contest

A weekend contest at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals: their workers are poorly trained in security.
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Why Do Hackers Find Many U.S. Companies Easy to Hack?

Why so big companies fall prey to cyberattacks so easily? According to hackers taking part in Defcon conference -- the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas -- workers at big corporations are poorly trained in security, which makes it easy for hackers to trick them into revealing key information.
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Oracle, other companies 'punkd' in hacking contest

A weekend contest at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals: their workers are poorly trained in security.
Company logo shown at headquarters for Oracle Corp shown in Redwood City

Oracle, other companies "punk'd" in hacking contest

A weekend contest at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals: their workers are poorly trained in security.
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Oracle, other companies punk'd in hacking contest

A weekend contest at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals: their workers are poorly trained in security.
HP TouchPad and Toshiba Thrive

Toshiba Thrive Set to Take A Shot at HP TouchPad

The tablet landscape has become a war zone with major tech corporations fighting for a slice of the burgeoning market. This has compelled companies like Toshiba and HP to launch their own tablets in the market.
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AntiSec Hackers Get Revenge on Police by Releasing Law Enforcement Data

AntiSec, a group of online hackers, said it breached 10 gigabytes of sensitive data after gaining access to more than 70 U.S. law enforcement Web sites. The hackers who claimed to have gotten emails, credit card information among other sensitive information, is said to be retaliating against the arrests of alleged members accused of hacking into the CIA, Britain's Serious Organized Crimes Agency, or SOCA, and Sony.
IHS iSuppli: HP TouchPad 32GB Costs $318 in Materials

TouchPad Downgrade Highlights iPad Dominance

Hewlett Packard reduced the price of its TouchPad tablet computer again, highlighting the uphill battle manufacturers will need to overcome as they go head-to-head against the dominant Apple iPad line of tablets.
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Apple Released iOS 5 Beta 5 Today, Throttles iOS 5 Slots Sold To Non-Developers

As the fall release of iOS 5 - the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system - approaches, iOS 5 beta 5 was released today for developers to download at Apple's iOS developer website. In the meantime, Apple reportedly started to close the accounts of some iOS 5 developers for selling their slots for UDIDs, the unique identification numbers associated with every iOS device.
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Like Zynga, Digital Chocolate pulls back from the cloud

It looks like Zynga?s infrastructure strategy is rubbing off on social gaming startups. Digital Chocolate, purveyor of social games such as Millionaire City and Pro MMA Fighter, is following in Zynga?s footsteps of launching games in the cloud, then bringing them back in house when demand levels off. It doesn?t have Zynga?s much ballyhooed hybrid cloud infrastructure quite yet, but Digital Chocolate is working on its own flavor of the ideal gaming cloud.

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