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Week in tech: $74 Android computers, hardening your smartphone, and Android fragmentation
Also: how much bandwidth your office needs, and the dawn of the 802.11ac age.
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Indian court orders Pirate Bay, Pastebin blocks, Supreme Court gets DDoSed
Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is back up after DoS attack by an ex-Anonymous member.
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Best Buy's surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup
Somewhere in the march toward "easy," security got blindsided.
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Money! That's what Flashback's creators want (but they can't get it)
Generating fraudulent ad clicks and getting paid are two different things.
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Massive DDoS attack keeps The Pirate Bay offline for over a day
Angry Anons may be behind the attack.
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New fraud tools turn Pinterest scams into point-and-click exercise
Toolkits allow scammers to get fraudulent Amazon referral fees.
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Entanglement swapping photons make for better security
Researchers can use an eavesdropper to make quantum keys more secure.
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"Patriotic hacktivist" The Jester unmasked—or maybe it's a big troll
Anonymous opponent heads for the hills—or maybe for another Twitter account.
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How to harden your smartphone against stalkers—Android edition
With great power comes great responsibility, so lock up that smartphone.
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LulzSec member pleads not guilty to charges he hacked Stratfor website
Hammond answers charges that he took data belonging to 860,000 Stratfor clients.
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Website bug exposes 70,000 Kickstarter ventures that weren't ready for publication
Crowd-funding site exposes draft projects in the latest social-networking gaffe.
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700,000 CA social services records lost—on microfiche
Private data belonging to 700,000 caregivers and recipients was lost or stolen.
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Bitcoins worth $87,000 plundered in brazen server breach
Unknown hackers broke into Bitcoinica, a site that trades the virtual currency.
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Amnesty International malware attack: when bad things happen on good sites
The group's UK website was compromised to host a notorious espionage trojan.
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My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone
A venture with $9 million in backing wants to establish a locked-down domain.
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Safari 5.1.7 disables older Flash plugins for increased security
Will this help to reduce attacks on users who rarely update their plugins?
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OS X Lion update addresses FileVault password bug, smooths networking
The update also includes a Safari update with "stability improvements."
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Facebook "Likejackers" agree to stop sending misleading spam
A firm has agreed to stop spamming Facebook users with misleading messages.
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Attackers target unpatched PHP bug allowing malicious code execution
Attackers are targeting a PHP bug that can be used to remotely hijack websites.
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OS X plain text password flaw has been around for 3 months and counting
An errant debug switch in 10.7.3 could expose encrypted data for some Mac users.
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DocTrackr offers file tracking, analytics, without the paranoia
In the digital world, where documents aren't so much shared as they are copied, DocTrackr offers some necessary info.
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Emergency Flash update fixes security bug being used to hijack PCs
Adobe has updated Flash to patch a vulnerability being used to hijack PCs.
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MI6 codebreaker attended US security conference just before his death
The body of British spy Gareth Williams was found two years ago, just after a US visit.
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Malicious apps hosted in Google store turn Android phones into zombies
Google has been found hosting 17 malicious titles in its Android app market.
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Android users targeted in drive-by download attacks
Sites are targeting Android users with malware that can access private networks.
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