Earlier this year, a massive hack that affected hundreds of companies shocked the tech world. Now, several months later, the full scale of the attack is finally being revealed.
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Schools in Florida Using Fingerprint Scanners to Track Students
Some schools in Florida have implemented a fingerprint scanning system -- so that they can keep track of students, and make it harder for them to skip school.
Read More »Air Force One Flight Plan “Accidentally” Posted to Personal Blog
A 50 year old Japanese air traffic controller decided to impress his friends -- by posting the flight itinerary of Air Force One on his personal blog.
Read More »Sony Hires Former DHS Employee as New Security Officer
Sony is hiring a new chief information security officer, who formerly worked for the Department of Homeland Security. Hopefully making some personnel changes will help Sony repair their reputation following that whole hacking... thing.
Read More »Man Uses Facebook to Steal $57,000 from his Neighbors
This man needed money to fuel his gambling habit, so he figured out how to steal it from his neighbors. No, he wasn't a master thief, or a computer hacker. He just knew how to use Facebook.
Read More »Printable Sticker Will Keep Your Hard Drive Safe from the FBI
FAT (Free Art & Technology) has designed a sticker that lets you destroy your hard drive data at a moment's notice. Just don't forget the drill.
Read More »Scientists Stalking Twitter to Monitor Health Problems
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are interested in your life -- no, really. They sifted through over 2 billion public tweets, and came up with some really interesting information about certain health problems.
Read More »Fox News Twitter Feed Hacked
Hackers from a group calling themselves the "Script Kiddies" infiltrated the Fox News Politics twitter account, and published false reports that President Obama had been killed.
Read More »China Hates Internet, Blocks Google+ (Already)
Even though Google+ hasn't been officially released to the public yet, China has already banned it from their country. Will Google retaliate?
Read More »Tumblr Phishing Scam Steals Thousands of Accounts with Promise of pr0n
You really can get anything from someone if you promise them fake pr0n. Thousands of tumblr users have had their accounts compromised, by a tumblr phishing scam that uses the term "adult content" to get you to enter your login info. It's actually working.
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