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Major Companies Are Downloading the Data From Those 100 Million Public Facebook Profiles

Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ»

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Foxconn's Human Resources Site Has Been Prank-Hacked

Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer of the iPhone and site of several tragic suicides, has been hacked--a mysterious prankster published an incisive, satirical job posting on the company's HR site.READ»

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Wal-Mart Hacked: Is Credit Card Data Safe?

Source code for Wal-Mart's point-of-sale computer system was hacked and siphoned into Eastern European computers in 2005 and 2006, Wired.com reported today. The scale of the attack calls into question whether major retailers have been ...READ»