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The latest stunt pulled by Anonymous hacktivists raised a lot of concerns among the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and they admit that cyberattacks may soon become a bigger threat than even terrorist attacks.
According to Mobiledia, FBI’s director Robert Muller admitted in front of the US Senate that t... |
8 February 2012
07:01 GMT |
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As a result of an investigation conducted by the US Secret Service’s New York Field Office, a number of 12 individuals were charged by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York after presumably participating in a cell phone cloning scheme that earned them $250 million (175 million EUR).
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8 February 2012
03:40 GMT |
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Hackers from TeamHav0k return with other cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that they found in some major sites. This time the XSS flaws were identified on subdomains of the websites owned by the US Department of Defense, Tricare, the site of the health organization especially purposed for uniformed service m... |
7 February 2012
09:32 GMT |
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A study released by security firm NCC reveals the origins of most hacking operations and the estimated damages they cause to the global economy each year.
The numbers show that hackers from the UK cost the global economy over $2 billion (1.4 billion EUR) in the year that passed, counting a total of 23 million hack a... |
2 February 2012
09:38 GMT |
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Night-vision cameras, mobile gamma-ray scanners, explosion-proof manhole covers and an $18 million (12.5 million EUR) regional operations center. No, we’re not talking about the latest James Bond movie, instead we’re referring to this year’s Super Bowl, considered by the organizers “the most t... |
1 February 2012
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a man from Latvia after suspecting him of running an online fraud scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq securities, causing a total loss of $2 million (1.4 million EUR).
According to a SEC press release, t... |
30 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Three apparently “very bright kids”, students at the Palos Verdes High School in California, were arrested after being suspected of hacking into their teachers’ computers to change grades. Besides computer hacking, they’re also accused of breaking into the school at night to steal physical cop... |
28 January 2012
05:18 GMT |
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A recent study shows that online stalking and bullying affect a lot of Internet users from the United States and most citizens believe that local law enforcement authorities have insufficient resources and capabilities to handle such incidents.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) issued a report to reveal th... |
25 January 2012
04:51 GMT |
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San Francisco City College staff members noticed that the computers found in a lab in the Cloud Hall on the Phelan Avenue campus were infected with a computer virus. After thoroughly investigating the matter, it turned out that the institution’s networks were plagued with malicious software from more than a dec... |
14 January 2012
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Spotify launched in the US about six months ago. In fact, it launched six months ago minus one week. Since then plenty of people have signed up for the service, Spotify saw a big influx of new users after the US launch and after the Facebook integration a couple of months after that.And those users have been happily ... |
7 January 2012
06:15 GMT |
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While approaching the Canadian-American border, a man realized that he had forgotten his passport. Instead of returning for the document, he decided to take a chance and use a scanned copy he had on an iPad 2, apparently succeeding.
According to the Winnipeg Free Press, 33-year-old Martin Reisch used a digital copy ... |
5 January 2012
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Police arrested a man from East Heaven, Connecticut, after the staff members of a computer repair shop found that he had accessed child abuse websites from his personal computer.
According to EastHeavenPatch, at the beginning of 2011 authorities were informed by the Sherman Avenue computer repair store that they unc... |
28 December 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Two years after first announcing it, Spotify is finally coming to the US. The service will be launched later today, at 8 in the morning EST. The company has signed a deal with the fourth and final music label just hours before launch and the service will be virtually identical to the European one, except for the pric... |
14 July 2011
08:07 GMT |
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Spotify has started drumming up interest ahead of its US launch. The company has finally revealed that it is hitting US shores, but has not set any date or given other details. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, it hasn't even signed Warner Music Group yet, the fourth and final music label needed to ... |
9 July 2011
06:09 GMT |
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It took a couple of years, but Spotify is finally in the US. Well, almost in the US, the company has revealed that it is landing on US shores, but has not revealed when. US users can sign up for an invitation and will be notified when the site and service become available. It has been an epic struggle and the long r... |
7 July 2011
08:13 GMT |
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The restrictions that the US federal government placed on embryonic stem cell research are having widespread negative consequences, not only for the country's role in the international scientific community, but also for research carried out using other types of stem cells. These conclusions belong to an Universi... |
10 June 2011
03:59 GMT |
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In order to enforce the provisions of a document stopping NASA from engaging in any activities that may put it in contact with the China National Space Administration (CNSA), journalists from China were prevented from participating at space shuttle Endeavour's May 16 launch. This marks one of the highest points ... |
23 May 2011
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According to experts in geology, the West Coast of the United States is in desperate need of an early warning system against earthquakes. The system could also be used to predict if and when a tsunami will strike following such events.The conclusions belong to scientists who attended a summit held at the University o... |
6 April 2011
10:56 GMT |
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While conducting statistical studies of temperatures at different locations around the world, experts discovered some time ago that certain regions are colder than their counterparts at the same latitude. A group of experts now believes it may have discovered the reason why. Throughout the northeastern coast of the U... |
31 March 2011
10:45 GMT |
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As some may or may not know, Spanish is the second most commonly used language in the United States, and while it may not have happened before, Dell decided to deliver a notebook with its keyboard and OS customized in this very language option.Usually, when hearing of a top-tier PC maker releasing a new computer, es... |
28 March 2011
10:54 GMT |
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The US National Sleep Foundation (NSF) released the results of its latest poll on sleeping habits in America today, March 7, and the results are worse than experts anticipated. A vast portion of the general population gets less sleep than needed, and nearly all use technology before bed. For years, sleep experts have... |
7 March 2011
04:22 GMT |
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On Thursday, January 20, the United States launched a new classified satellite from California, aboard the biggest available delivery system the country operates. Now, amateur astronomers believe they have discovered the newly-launched spacecraft in Earth's orbit. When the US Air Force (USAF) launched the satell... |
26 January 2011
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As one may have already realized, the winter holidays somehow manage to act as a sort of signal for the emergence of new lawsuits, one of which, started by Rambus against a whole set of chip makers, has begun to be formally addressed by the US ITC.Some time ago, on December 1 to be more specific, Rambus filed patent... |
30 December 2010
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Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer applauded the latest milestone of a delayed free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea. The two countries managed to reach a deal on revisions this weekend to the draft dating back to 2007, which thus far has failed to come into effect.... |
6 December 2010
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Yesterday, November 21, the United States launched a new, secretive spy satellite into space, aboard a heavy-lift delivery system. The launch took place from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), in Florida, right next door to the Kennedy Space Center, home of the shuttle fleet. A Delta 4 Heavy booster &ndash... |
22 November 2010
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A new book argues that there are no scientific evidence to suggest that the apocalyptic scenarios concerning a massive earthquake being triggered by fault lines in the American Midwest are true. According to the publication, the warnings being circulated at this point about a massive tremor lurking just around the co... |
22 October 2010
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Officials in Washington DC realized that the United States was nearly entirely dependent on China for supplies of critically-important rare-Earth elements, but they woke up too late; the Asian nation has just stopped exporting the minerals to America.Market analysts reveal that China, which controls an estimated 90+ ... |
20 October 2010
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Officials at Berkeley Lab announce that their facility has been selected to lead an international consortium that will manage the creation of a US-China Clean Energy Research Center on Building Energy Efficiency at the Lab. The establishment of the Clean Energy Resource Center (CERC) was announced formally by US Pres... |
8 October 2010
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A private company has yesterday, October 4, launched the first degradable, easily removable chewing gum in the world. Once used, the gum can easily be separated from a host of surfaces.The manufacturer for the new product tested the gum, and determined that it can be removed readily from a host of surfaces, such as c... |
5 October 2010
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Netflix's Canada launch was supposed to be a great move, the first international market where the service is available. But the company has been apologizing for about three days straight and the hits just keep on coming. At first it was the whole business with the actors paid to mingle with the crowd at the laun... |
24 September 2010
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Linus Torvalds, Linux's architect and leading figure, has finally become an US citizen after spending more than a decade living there. The Finish-born programmer is responsible for creating Linux and sparking the open-source revolution, achieving a somewhat legendary status in the process. Torvalds revealed the ... |
15 September 2010
06:35 GMT |
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According to a group of experts, it could be that as much as 5.7 million American citizens have been classified as suffering from an elevated risk of heart attack for nothing.The information also seems to indicate that millions of people may be currently mistreated for their conditions. They may receiving too many dr... |
10 September 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Craigslist has been the target of plenty of criticism and attacks from various groups, politicians and especially attorneys general looking to mentions in the press. The source of all of this has been the site's Adult Services section and Craigslist has now removed it in the US replacing it with a "censored" log... |
6 September 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Like it promised yesterday, Wikileaks has published a classified CIA document on the site. The document itself is interesting but hardly as controversial as some of the site's previous leaks. It's not the document that's important, but the message it sends, Wikileaks will not be stopped and will not bo... |
26 August 2010
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In a recent survey, researchers at the University of Michigan showed that, while many Americans remain united on some core values, they are still very much divided on some sensitive issues.These include immigration laws, religious beliefs, gay marriages, stem cells research and universal healthcare, among other thorn... |
24 August 2010
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Talk about giving too much power to a single individual. Judge Royce Lamberth is apparently the definition of not to do when in office. He basically put an end to federal funding for stem cell research in the United States, all by himself.In a decision that can be qualified as misguided at best, the Judge made a deci... |
24 August 2010
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A new report on how America's space plans should look like is currently making the rounds in Washington DC. The document, elaborated by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), argues that the “assured access to space” policy that the US federal government has interpreted as meaning... |
29 July 2010
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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has kept statistics that say that most babies are born during the summer, and there is a birth peak in August. The latest year for which these statistics are available is 2006. That year, August had the most US births, just like in 10 out of the 16 previous... |
29 July 2010
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US Congressmen on Wednesday approved a bill setting the budget of the American space agency at around $19 billion for 2011. The document also cuts the amount of money President Barack Obama wanted to make available to the private sector. Instead, politicians decided to award about $3 billion to research and developme... |
24 July 2010
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In the US, there have been only two file-sharing cases involving individuals that have actually gone to court. In both of these cases, the individuals were found guilty of copyright infringement and were ordered to pay ridiculously high statutory damages to the music industry. Now, in both cases, the judges have lowe... |
10 July 2010
07:16 GMT |
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Twitter has been heralded as an international phenomenon for quite a while, but until recently, it was still very much an American company with a large US user base. However, that is changing and fast, as, according to a report put out by Semiocast, Asia is now the biggest user of Twitter, in terms of tweet volum... |
2 July 2010
05:48 GMT |
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In a new investigation, it was revealed that as much as 20 percent of all Americans reported feeling either sleepy or drowsy in meetings or conversations. These are situations that are normally cataloged as necessitating a high degree of attention and focus, but citizens in the Unites States and Canada appear to perf... |
9 June 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Officials in the United States said recently that the federal government might push British oil company BP out of the way, and assume command of the clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. Even though British Petroleum is the only company involved in the efforts that has the know-how to seal a spill taking place at s... |
24 May 2010
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This month marks the 60th anniversary of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), an organization that has been set into place in order to promote innovation and scientific research in the nation. In the subsequent decades, the NSF has been actively involved in providing generous funding for a wide variety of projec... |
5 May 2010
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A group of investigators at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently published the results of a new research, which sought to determine changes in church attendance patterns over the past 35 years. Their work used a new multi-level estimation method to determine both the number of people using places of worship, a... |
15 April 2010
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The United States are at this point one of the most appealing countries for legal and illegal immigrants alike. Thousands of people flock there every year, and it’s the job of relevant authorities to separate those who should stay from those who arrived illegally. However, in some instances, US authorities abus... |
1 April 2010
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The writing's on the wall for Google's stay in China, at least as far as the search engine is concerned. The first clear indications came a couple of days ago when reports claimed the imminent announcement of pull-out. Now the Financial Times is also claiming the very same thing. But the clearest sign that ... |
22 March 2010
05:58 GMT |
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It's not definitive and it's coming from just one website analytics company, but Facebook is now the biggest site in the US. According to the latest numbers from Hitwise, Facebook squeezed past Google to become the most visited site in the US in the past week. It's a very small gap between the two and ... |
16 March 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Just like with almost everything, the Internet has had quite an effect on the way people consume news. And it's not just that they have another avenue for news, the very way people get their news has changed in the past years. The latest Pew Research Center Internet study shows that US consumers get their news f... |
1 March 2010
09:21 GMT |
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Most of the advancements in the Information Age were ushered forth by the fact that the Silicon Valley learned to use the relatively common chemical silicon in processors, chips and other electronic applications. This has enabled a fast history of progress over the last few decades, but now innovation is becoming inc... |
15 February 2010
02:20 GMT |
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