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Poison Ivy, used in RSA SecurID attack, still popular

Security vendor FireEye has released a set of tools to analyze Poison Ivy infections

NSA collected thousands of domestic communications in 2011, court document shows

The numbers represent a misuse of NSA's authority, the EFF said

HP replaces enterprise chief, posts Q3 sales drop

HP's revenue fell 8 percent, with declines in all but one business unit

Lost in space (nearly)! Astronaut describes almost drowning on spacewalk

Leak in spacesuit fills helmet with water, astronaut writes in blog post

Microsoft turns Scroogled into ‘Schoolgled’ in new anti-Google attack ad

Picks up the pace, with today's offensive less than two weeks after the last

BDTI aims to stabilize mobile performance and battery measures

Berkeley Design Technology is developing a new benchmark to measure smartphone and tablet battery life

Does Bitcoin Promote Illicit Ecommerce?

Manning attorney vows to fight on, urges Obama to issue pardon

Lawyer: Manning cheered me up after sentencing, not the other way around

Zuckerberg mocked, doubted, and praised for Internet.org plan

Tech media reacts to Zuckerberg's ambitious new plan.

iPlastic: Purloined cases show in-color plastic iPhone 5C

But the most interesting debate among iPhone trackers remains price, not plastic

All eyes on HP amidst report its Enterprise Group chief has been reassigned

Donatelli out as head of HP Enterprise, according to AllThingsD report

How the Snowden Effect Is Paralyzing CIOs

Can the U.S. Postal Service find a future running a gov’t cloud-based authentication service?

Under the 3-year $15 million contract awarded to SecureKey Technologies today, USPS gambles on a future in the cloud

VMware’s Cloud Strategy Equal Parts Foggy, Stormy

Box swivels to SMBs with new subscription plan

The company isn't happy it's losing some smaller-size customers to Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive

iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending August 20

Latest Apple iPad 5 scuttlebutt: Rear shells, svelteness, and Retina clues from the supply chain

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years for classified document leaks

U.S. Army Pfc. Manning had faced up to 90 years in prison

‘League of Legends’ account information and transaction records compromised

Hashed account passwords and credit card numbers were accessed, among other information, the game's developer said

Groklaw shutdown shows ‘chilling effect’ of NSA surveillance

Games developers get translation plug-in for Unity

Transfluent charges 6 to 18 cents per word for translations farmed out to its 20,000-strong network

NASA’s Voyager 2 marks 36 years on its space odyssey

After studying outer planets, Voyager 2 heading toward edge of solar system

NASA warns of solar storm racing toward Earth this week

Particles from coronal mass ejection could affect satellites and ground electrical systems

Google gives Chrome mulligan button

Adds 'reset' option to restore to factory settings, patches 25 security vulnerabilities

Facebook’s Zuckerberg wants to connect the rest of the world

Initiative aims to bring Internet access to the two-thirds of the world that's still unconnected

iPhone 5 case quick review: Kubxlab Ultra Thin Cases

The skinny on these slender iPhone 5 cases

LG Display ups smartphone resolution to 2560 x 1440 on 5.5-inch screen

The new panel is also thinner than its predecessor

China arrests two for using the Internet to defame cultural icon

The two users have admitted to fabricating the rumors, according to police

Facebook, six other tech companies partner to bridge the digital divide

The partnership aims to connect the two-thirds of the world that are not connected to the Internet

Bitcoin wallet service to issue refunds after users’ funds stolen

Blockchain.info has patched extensions used for its My Wallet application

Google seeks experts for its soon-to-launch Helpouts video service

The information-based video service is expected to launch soon following internal testing

Windows 8 Update: Microsoft dumps ad agency touting Windows 8, Surface

Also: Ad says Win 8 still better than iPad, Skype added to the OS, Firefox gets Modern for Windows 8

CSOs: Stop flogging the threats and start providing solutions

Mobile Connectivity Could Net Feds Productivity Gains

VMware, Citrix and Microsoft virtual desktops get encryption security

AFORE's CypherX supports VMware, Citrix and Microsoft VDI platforms

HP equips WorkSite with file-sharing service

Users of HP Autonomy's WorkSite document management software can now access their documents from the cloud

SAP takes fight to Salesforce.com, Oracle with social intelligence app

Social Contact Intelligence runs on SAP's HANA in-memory database

Google brings more real-time traffic reports to Maps, courtesy of Waze

The new features build on Google's previous acquisition of the mapping developer

Security expert kick-starts fund to pay Facebook bug finder a $10K bounty

Khalil Shreateh, who was rebuffed by Facebook, says, 'Thank you so much'

Google speeds up Chromecast shipments, but inventory remains low

Google said it will now ship units in up to two weeks for orders placed via its Play Store, but other retailers can't keep up with demand

Self-driving car sales to reach 95 million per year by 2035

Autonomous cars will represent 75% of all light-duty vehicle sales in two decades, according to Navigant

5 Reasons You Can Finally Ditch BlackBerry

Study finds big gap about app security between execs and IT staffers

Groklaw closing ends decade-long run atop the world of tech law journalism

Now-shuttered law blog first rose to prominence in 2003, during landmark open-source case.

YouTube gets an update on mobile, with Chromecast in mind

New features include enhanced tools to beam content to television sets

Rapid 7 to offer new tools for risk management, performance tracking

Tech legal news site Groklaw shutting down, citing email privacy concerns

Running Groklaw is impossible now due to government surveillance, according to site owner Pamela Jones

Researchers outwit Apple, plant malware in the App Store

'Jekyll' app assembles hidden attack code only after Apple's screened the software

Rackspace hosts VMware management with new dedicated server

The company hopes to take over more central IT functions via hosted virtual servers

Gartner: Amazon still public cloud leader by a long shot

No one else close to Amazon in Magic Quadrant for cloud services

Cyberattacks second most common cause of severe EU wired Internet outages in 2012

Overall, they were responsible for 6 percent of outages that affected both mobile and fixed electronic communication networks, ENISA said