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Microsoft says it freed millions of PCs from criminal botnet

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B for busted: Students changed grades by tampering with professors' keyboards

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Apple got up to 5,000 data requests in six months

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Privacy, please: New technologies could hide your identity online

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US charges eight for cybercrime targeting banks, government

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Internet

Facebook forensics? What the feds can learn from your digital crumbs

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China says it has 'mountains of data' pointing to US hacking 

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New US law would punish hackers backed by China or other countries

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Microsoft, FBI go after major bank-account stealing cybercrime ring

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Facebook

Notorious Zeus banking Trojan is gaining speed on Facebook

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Technology

Top Obama appointees using secret email accounts

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Tips

Sex Matters: Men, women differ on data security

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LinkedIn improves security with two-factor authentication

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Apple

Apple's two-factor authentication leaves holes for hackers

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Evernote offers two-factor verification in wake of hack

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Panel suggests digital booby trap to 'lock down' file stealers' computers

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Four-star general in eye of US cyber storm

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Big data companies try to outwit Mother Nature's chaos

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Social media

Twitter is finally rolling out two-step authentication for better security

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Some US utilities say they're under constant cyberattack