Social networks hot targets for hackers: McAfee
McAfee Labs on Monday reported a surge early this year in malicious software aimed at stealing passwords at social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Jun 03, 2013
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Jun 03, 2013
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US banking sector too vulnerable to hackers, report says
US authorities charged with overseeing the financial sector are worried about its vulnerability to cyberattacks, they said in a report published Thursday.
Apr 26, 2013
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Few women, visible minorities among top decision makers
While women have gained ground, accounting for 31.2% of senior leadership roles in Montreal, visible minorities remain more markedly underrepresented in these ranks. In spite of accounting for 22.5% of the ...
Feb 11, 2013
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Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
(AP)—The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot (15-meter) wall of Pacific Ocean crashed into ...
Dec 09, 2012
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One million UK jobs depend on physics, report reveals
A new report from the Institute of Physics (IOP) shows that 4% of employees in the UK work in companies that would not exist without the physics base, or without employees that have an advanced understanding ...
Oct 18, 2012
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Quantitative easing only benefits the financial sector, UK research finds
(Phys.org)—A review of evidence into Quantitative Easing (QE) has shown that the Government's hope that it will pull the UK out of recession may be unfounded.
Oct 10, 2012
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3Qs: Did Occupy Wall Street change Wall Street?
Occupy Wall Street marked its one-year anniversary on Sept. 17. Protestors have packed up their tents and vacated sites such as New York's Zuccotti Park and Boston's Dewey Square, but we asked ...
Sep 27, 2012
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Russian charged by US in $1 mn hacking scheme
A Russian national living in New York has been charged in connection with hacking into customer brokerage accounts and stealing $1 million, officials said.
Apr 18, 2012
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Iran tests first domestically made nuclear fuel rod
Iran said on Sunday that its scientists have "tested the first nuclear fuel rod produced from uranium ore deposits inside the country," the website of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation said.
Jan 01, 2012
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Bonuses and risk not linked, says research
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research into the causes of the credit crisis has cast doubt on the alleged link between bonus payments and risk exposures in the UK financial sector.
Nov 02, 2011
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Research reveals why hedge funds are an unlikely large source of systemic risk
The Journal of Financial Economics recently published a paper by Andrew Ang, Chair, Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business and Chair, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School; Sergiy Gorovyy, PhD candidate, Columb ...
Jul 28, 2011
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2008 crisis spurred rise in suicides in Europe
The financial crisis that began to hit Europe in mid-2008 reversed a steady, years-long fall in suicides among people of working age, according to a letter published on Friday by The Lancet.
Jul 08, 2011
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Banks have difficulty adapting in crisis: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Can the financial sector regulate itself? A study carried out by EPFL’s Swiss Finance Institute, involving 350 American institutions, shows that those that perform poorly in times of ...
May 18, 2011
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Researchers skeptical about bank taxes, regulations still needed
Taxes on executive bonuses, financial transactions and excess profits are a few of the taxes proposed or enacted to punish banks for their role in the recent financial crisis, but most of these ideas have shortcomings, says ...
Dec 16, 2010
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Internet accounts for 7.2% of British economy: study
The Internet contributed 100 billion pounds (155 billion dollars, 115 billion euros) to the British economy last year, about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a report showed Thursday.
Oct 28, 2010
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