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Experts offer online security tips

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With all the website breaches going on lately - Yahoo, Formspring and the Phandroid forums just to name a few - it might seem like there are hackers everywhere. Although you don't need to separate yourself entirely from the rest of the internet, it is a good idea to follow some precautionary security practices to protect your login and other sensit...

Social media website springs a (password) leak

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"Once we were able to verify that the hashes were obtained from Formspring, we locked down our systems and began an investigation to determine the nature of the breach," Formspring said in a blog post. "We found that someone had broken into one of our development servers and was able to use that access to extract account information from a producti...

Small businesses get new reprieve from cyber attacks

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However, two recent court rulings in the United States may be a game changer for small businesses. The Wall Street Journal reported that courts in Boston and Detroit have said banks may bear the burden of cybersecurity if a business's financial account is hacked. This, according to the paper, is a break from past logic in which courts assumed th...