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Google, Facebook Join Forces to Kill Phishing Email With New Email Framework

Google, Yahoo, AOL and a group of other large email senders and receivers have banded together to develop a new framework for sending and receiving email that is designed to stop phishing attacks and other email-borne scams.

Angry Birds chief: piracy is good for business

The chief executive of the company behind mobile gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds, has said that piracy helps companies attract more business.

The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data

Google File System, Amazon Dynamo, Microsoft Azure, and Hadoop Distributed File System are a few of the storage architectures underlying some of the biggest players on the Internet.

"Blackhole" toolkit dominates Web malware attacks, says Sophos

Blackhole is an exploit kit used to inject malware onto PCs that visit an exploit site, or are redirected to such a site from another, compromised website.

Europe proposes a "right to be forgotten"

a "right to be forgotten" that will allow people to demand that organizations that hold their data delete that data, as long as there is no legitimate grounds to hold it. It's not 1995 anymore The 1995 Directive was written in a largely pre-Internet era; back then, fewer than …

Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative - Forbes

"We don’t want to trust Facebook with private messages among activists,” said developer Ed Knutson to Wired. “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook…but, we’re making our own Facebook.”

EMI Boss Opposes SOPA, Says Piracy is a Service Issue

The RIAA has been one of the most dedicated supporters of the PIPA and SOPA bills, but not all of the people they represent share their enthusiasm.

New study of hunter-gatherers suggests social networks sparked evolution of cooperation

Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests. "The astonishing thing is that ancient human social networks so very much resemble what we see today …

Newt Threatens China and Russia With Cyberwar

Newt Gingrich isn’t the only politician who’s freaked out by China and Russia’s online spying.

Digital 'right to be forgotten' will be made EU law

Embarrassing, inaccurate or simply personal data will have to be deleted from the internet and company databases if consumers ask, under a new set of European laws.

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