Information security

Information security
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There was a breach at The Princeton Review. The NY Times was able to access student records through the test prep's website. A main security implementation the company did not adhere to was putting student data and innocuous data on separate computers.

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In an under reported story stores as prominent as Target and Best Buy sold digital frames produced in China that when connected to a user's computer loaded a Trojan virus which could take control of the customer's computer and steal personal information. It was suggested that this virus could be from the Chinese government.

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The NY Times Bits Technology blog had a post "Tracking Hate 2.0 on the Web", it mentions a Congressional briefing looking at hate in the information age. How can we follow the proliferation of this speech if we don't understand the technology they are using?

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