When customers forget their passwords, business suffers
A lot of money goes unspent in the online world for a simple reason: Shoppers can't remember their passwords.
Security
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Hackers protest BART decision to block cellphones
(AP) -- Hackers broke into a website for San Francisco's mass transit system Sunday and posted contact information for more than 2,000 customers, the latest showdown between anarchists angry at perceived attempts to limit ...
Internet
Aug 15, 2011
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Porn sites closer to getting '.xxx' Web address
(AP) -- Porn sites are closer to getting their own address on the Internet.
Internet
Dec 10, 2010
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Ashley Madison breach reveals the rise of the moralist hacker
There's value in more than just credit card data, as Avid Life Media (ALM), parent company of the extramarital affair website Ashley Madison, has found out after being raided for millions of their customer's details.
Internet
Jul 22, 2015
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Review: Android Pay works well, when you can use it
When it comes to using a smartphone to make purchases in retail stores, Apple Pay has been getting most of the attention.
Business
Oct 8, 2015
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Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours
(Phys.org) —A protocol based on "discrete logarithms", deemed as one of the candidates for the Internet's future security systems, was decrypted by EPFL researchers. Allegedly tamper-proof, it could only stand up to the ...
Computer Sciences
May 20, 2014
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What comes next in Facebook's major data breach
For users, Facebook's revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next?
Internet
Sep 29, 2018
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Producing electrical power with cardboard, tape, and a pencil
A small device made from everyday materials can generate enough energy to power several diodes. This clever discovery by an EPFL postdoctoral student was presented yesterday at a global conference on micro- and nano- systems ...
Engineering
Jan 26, 2016
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Hackers hit ArcelorMittal's Belgian website
The online piracy group Anonymous hacked into the Belgian website of industrial giant ArcelorMittal on Friday, posting a video to protest the closure of two blast furnaces in Belgium.
Internet
Jan 6, 2012
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The paradox of gift giving: More not better, says new study
Holiday shoppers, take note. Marketing and psychology researchers have found that in gift giving, bundling together an expensive "big" gift and a smaller "stocking stuffer" reduces the perceived value of the overall package ...
Social Sciences
Dec 12, 2011
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