More than 4,000 patients' personal information was compromised after a laptop was stolen from an employee of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) medical school.
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A database containing information on more than 80,000 employees was accessed.
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Site visitors were prompted to download malware.
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The site was temporarily made unavailable.
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Symantec security researchers found that 33 of the top 100 search results from "Massachusetts senate race results" took users to malicious sites.
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The Web site for The Jewish Chronicle was recently defaced by hackers.
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Hackers have been sending malicious PDF files to military contractors.
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The Pentagon hacker's possible extradition will be delayed until at least April.
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Hackers recently replaced the home page for the open source platform.
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A hacker last month infiltrated a server hosting the online banking system of Suffolk County National Bank in New York, putting 8,000-plus customers' login information at risk.
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An international team has broken the key.
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Samy Kamkar has demonstrated a simple way to penetrate hardware firewalls.
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Hackers recently placed Mr. Bean's face on Spain's official web site.
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School officials say more than 130,000 student records dating as far back as 1987 were compromised by a hacker who accessed EWU's computer network.
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Qin Liu and Sebastien Sauge have demonstrated a method for eavesdropping on a secure quantum key distribution.
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The deDECTed.org project has cracked the DECT standard's encryption code.
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An Indiana man has filed a class action lawsuit against RockYou, alleging it failed to protect the personal data of more than 32 million customers.
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No stranger to hacking attacks, the social networking site has banned new users from selecting 370 passwords that it says are too easy for hacking scripts to unlock.
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Hacker Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty to hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-11, and Hannaford Brothers.
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More than 30,000 students are now receiving notifications that a hacker or hackers had breached three separate computers, exposing their personal information.
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