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The Night Sky in December: A new cold war waged not on Earth, but in space

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Thursday, December 4th, 2014
The Night Sky in December: A new cold war waged not on Earth, but in space
The chart shows the sky at the start of December. The positions of the stars on other nights can be found from previous charts (our last appeared on November 3) for they rise two hours earlier each month.
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State-sponsored or not, Sony Pictures malware “bomb” used slapdash code
According to multiple reports, unnamed government officials have said that the cyber attack on Sony Pictures was linked to the North Korean government.
Posted on: December 22, 2014 10:24 pm
1 billion data records were stolen last year, thanks to poor security
New research suggests more than 1 billion data records were stolen from more than 1,500 individual data breaches last year. The latest findings from Gemalto, an enterprise security firm, represent a significant year-over-year increase in both corporate breaches and data theft.
Posted on: February 15, 2015 1:41 pm
Verizon’s ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine
Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between these customers and the websites they visit.
Posted on: October 28, 2014 12:26 am

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