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It seems like the US government is just spending its time drawing up laws that cause online controversy. There was the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), and now there is another **PA floating around in the form of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection ...

The widely predicted Amazon tablet could knock the iPad off its perch, according to researcher team Forrester. There have been no public announcements of the tablet, but Amazon's trademark registrations of "Lab126" points to a development team who will be involved in tablet production.The eCommerce mega-company's tablet will supposedly ...

The threat of riots on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, in response to the fatal shooting of a transit police officer, caused the agency to turn off its support for mobile phone signals. This incited hacking group Anonymous, who retaliated by defacing the official BART ...

Hackers have shown how to turn mobile payment service Square into a convenient tool that allows criminals to pump cash from stolen credit card numbers.Adam Laurie and Zac Franken of computer security firm Aperture Labs used home made software and an easily bought iPad audio wire to trick Square in ...

It's been five years since Twitter arrived on the social media scene and, with over 50 million tweets per day, the popular micro-blogging platform has been the buzz of users, celebrities, artists, social activists, popular CEOs and philanthropists worldwide.Twitter has stirred up governments, influenced social revolt and political change as well as media companies who have ...

According to recent reports by industry's top security firms, malicious hackers are now following their unsuspecting prey onto smartphones and social networking hotspots. In the latest volume of its Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec, one of the largest corporations for internet security, further mentions that cyber criminals are now also gearing up attacks ...

With over 6.3-million followers worldwide, Hollywood icon and new media entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher is one of the Twitter elite, and is the sixth most followed person on the micro-blogging site. But, according to a post on Read Write Web, earlier yesterday at technology conference TED, Kutcher's Twitter account appears to ...

Hacker. The word conjures up visions of a bleary-eyed geek for whom every day is a bad hair day, hunkered behind a screen in the early hours of the morning, surrounded by dirty coffee mugs and empty pizza boxes, working on some computer code that the rest of us will ...