Following CIA Takedown, Anonymous Also Targets Alabama, Mexico; Google Wallet Woes Continue; Free Tax Filing Websites Flunk Data Privacy Test ; StopTheHacker: Antivirus for Your Website; Imation Unifies IronKey, MXI, and ENCRYPTX Technologies; Traveling to China? Leave the Mobile Devices at Home; And More

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Following CIA Takedown, Anonymous Also Targets Alabama, Mexico;
Report: Nortel Breached by Hackers for Almost 10 Years;
Imation Unifies IronKey, MXI, and ENCRYPTX Technologies
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Following CIA Takedown, Anonymous Also Targets Alabama, Mexico

In the wake of the CIA website going offline last Friday, hacker
group Anonymous also went after government organizations in
Alabama and Mexico.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?jYGj44W7iKyrT78HEaw5=130


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Report: Nortel Breached by Hackers for Almost 10 Years

Hackers based in China had "widespread access" to computer
systems from Nortel Networks for almost 10 years, according to a
Tuesday report from the Wall Street Journal.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?kYGj44W7iKyrT78HEaw-=140


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Imation Unifies IronKey, MXI, and ENCRYPTX Technologies

Imation announced a "unified Secure Data, Identity and Mobile
Workspace product set" born from the acquisition of relevant
assets at MXI and IronKey last year, as well as technology from
ENCRYPTX.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?9YGj44W7iKyrT78HEawz=150


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StopTheHacker: Antivirus for Your Website

Antivirus protection for websites will soon be as ubiquitous as
it is for PCs, says Peter Jensen, CEO of StopTheHacker.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?v4Gj44W7iKyrT78HEawo=160


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Free Tax Filing Websites Flunk Data Privacy Test

As one privacy group discovered, filing for free will cost you a
different kind of currency: your personal information.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?gYGj44W7iKyrT78HEawt=170


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Google Wallet Woes Continue

If you refrain from rooting your phone, a thief can't root it ex
post facto to get your Google PIN. However, a second
vulnerability can give that thief full access to the funds in
your Google prepaid card.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?14Gj44W7iKyrT78HEawi=180

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Report: Traveling to China? Leave the Mobile Devices at Home

Companies are forbidding employees from bringing mobile devices
abroad, for fear of getting hacked, the New York Times finds.

http://enews.pcmag.com/u.d?nYGj44W7iKyrT78HEawn=190


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