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Snowden used other employees' passwords, hacked firewalls to enter classified systems
A year of NSA disclosures, the Syrian Electronic Army hackers, and shaky stock exchanges
Stiffs Snow Leopard users; no Safari update for them
Samsung Electronics hopes to replace dedicated portable gaming consoles with its phone-controller combination
A look back at Cisco's major 2013 moves
Motorola Mobility had argued that a Microsoft patent was invalid to avoid an ITC ban
Enterprise IT security pros say smartphones and tablets are bigger potential risk today than PCs and laptops
The meeting follows waves of disclosures related to government surveillance
The author of the U.S. Constitution would be 'aghast,' Judge Richard Leon wrote
The airline had said it wouldn't "police" voice calls, but after customers responded, it will
Previous judges have found the collection program constitutional, unlike Monday's ruling
Built too many one year, too few the next: 'Welcome to the hardware business,' says expert
Our exclusive research into the current condition of the CSO role reveals big progress is being made, but the outlook is far from rosy
Researchers accuse BT of placing backdoors into firmware
Solar power in the U.S. this year produced as much power as 10 nuclear power plants
Network monitor Root Metrics says Verizon's AWS upgrade is boosting performace of non-AWS phones in some areas
New software license revenues for the quarter will be a closely watched result
But an IBM representative says the lawsuit is 'pushing a wild conspiracy theory'
Judge Richard Leon sees 'a substantial likelihood of success' by plaintiffs who argue their Fourth Amendment rights have been violated
Coincidence? Bruce Schneier -- outspoken opponent of NSA mass surveillance -- leaving British Telecom
Engineers worked on malfunctioning cooling system over the weekend, waiting results; spacewalk would begin Thursday if it's deemed necessary
With four I/O lanes, the newest PCIe G2 flash drives will offer 2GBs throughput
The outdoor network was built using donated equipment from Ruckus Wireless
iOS wins in a landslide over Android; Surface tablets barely register
Yahoo says its engineers are 'making steady progress,' but the system still isn't fully restored
Half of all BI (business intelligence) implementations will incorporate machine data streams by 2017, according to a new report
Intel gets wireless base-station expertise with acquisition
Revolution R Enterprise has released a plug-in for running R analytics on Hadoopo data sets
Cheaper Lumias are getting the same Camera app as Nokia's high-end smartphones
The malware works as an IIS module and can capture data entered by users in Web forms
The company has again come under fire for its search and advertising business practises
A 15-year-old worker at the factory also died while employed at the facility
Anonymous, LulzSec members and plenty of others sent to the slammer for exploiting technology and human flaws
BYOD for 30,000 people creates extraordinary network demands
The NSA is worried about the unknown amount of information Snowden may have collected from NSA computers
Perhaps gearing for an IPO, Box is becoming a collaboration platform for the enterprise
Hackers are regularly stealing code-signing certificates from developers, according to Microsoft
First Chinese craft to land on an extraterrestrial body will study moon's surface before China sends astronauts there
With robots like Atlas and BigDog, Boston Dynamics makes Google a big robotics player
Boston Dynamics' robots move like humans, four-legged animals, and one shifts its shape to fit through tight spaces
Access has been restored to almost everyone, the CEO said
How much is Evan Williams worth? What percentage of YouTube traffic is mobile? It's all right here
The third-largest US mobile carrier might bid for its smaller rival next year, The Wall Street Journal says
The airline says its Fly-Fi service will be able to carry VoIP and complaints will be handled case by case
Chip companies look for new opportunities, while the end of XP support and a leveling off of tablet sales could help PC market
Agency wants Congress to grant it authority to go after companies that fail to provide adequate data security
Mergers and acquisitions can have an impact on deals based on product road maps, analyst says
