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Putnam: Mason fourth-graders get past Internet security – Lansing State Journal


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Putnam: Mason fourth-graders get past Internet security
Lansing State Journal
Should Mason school officials inform parents of a breach in Internet security that allowed fourth-graders to view unsavory images on a class computer? Rachel Harshbarger, the mother of one of the students at Alaiedon Elementary School, certainly thinks so.

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Banks must move past PIN, OTP to ensure mobile security – ZDNet


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Banks must move past PIN, OTP to ensure mobile security
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Asian banks need to stop using PINs and SMS-based OTPs, which no longer provide adequate security and user assurance, and start tapping biometrics to authenticate mobile users. In fact, the future of authentication resolves around biometrics on …

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Amazon’s target not just The Times, but its own employees, past, present and future

If you work at Amazon, leave for any reason, and then have the audacity to publicly criticize the company, you will regret that decision for the rest of your life – especially every time you Google your name — because on the first page of results will be a message from Amazon to prospective employers: Stay away from this one; he or she is not only disloyal, but a liar to boot.

Chilling, no? Yet that is in essence what Amazon senior vice president of hackery Jay Carney (a former White House press secretary) today told all those who have or might someday work for the company, under the guise of rebutting a New York Times expose that was published fully two months ago. Given the infamy of the Times story and incendiary nature of Carney’s response, one can only assume that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos authorized and approved its contents. If so, the only good sense he showed was in not attaching his name to it.

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China Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease – Bloomberg


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China Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease
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China Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease. by Michael A Riley. June 5, 2015 — 8:35 PM EDT. Share on FacebookShare on Twitter · Share on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on Google+E-mail. James Lewis. Senior fellow in …
Federal data breach affecting employees in ConnecticutWFSB

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