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Legal Showdown on Cyber Security

Brent Kendall, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 13 at 10:55 am PT

When hackers broke into computer systems at Wyndham Worldwide Corp. and several of its hotels, they allegedly stole payment-card numbers for hundreds of thousands of consumer accounts.

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Group in N.Y. Arrested in Alleged Cyber Crime Thefts

Chad Bray, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 9 at 10:01 am PT

Prosecutors filed charges on Thursday against a group of eight people who allegedly helped steal $45 million in a matter of hours through thousands of coordinated transactions at automated teller machines around the globe.

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Pentagon Expected to Embrace Apple, Samsung Devices

Will Connors, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 1 at 12:42 pm PT

Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are bringing the smartphone wars to the Pentagon.

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Hackers Hit Israel Over Palestinians

Joshua Mitnick, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 8 at 4:32 am PT

Hundreds of Israeli websites on Sunday came under attack from a group of pro-Palestinian hackers, who disrupted dozens of government and private websites in their stated attempt to “erase Israel from cyberspace.”

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U.S. Tech Giants Speak Up for China

Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 5 at 10:50 am PT

Business groups raised alarms Thursday about a provision in the recently enacted government spending bill that makes it harder for some federal agencies to buy technology made in China.

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Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 27 at 8:30 am PT

Companies are using various ploys to dupe employees into committing unsafe computing as a way to train them not to be so easily fooled.

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South Korea Investigates Cyber Attack

In-Soo Nam and Alastair Gale, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 20 at 10:10 am PT

South Korean police are investigating one of the country’s biggest Internet shutdowns for evidence of a North Korean cyber attack, after simultaneous outages Wednesday paralyzed computer systems at major television networks and banks for several hours.

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U.S. Official Cites Cyber Attack Risks

Siobhan Gorman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 12 at 10:54 am PT

Relatively unsophisticated hackers could eventually disrupt insecure computer networks running parts of vital functions like the power grid, a U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday in an annual assessment of world-wide threats that gave cyber security top billing.

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What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 27 at 7:00 am PT

There’s a lot of hyperbole in the war against hackers. Art Coviello, the 59-year-old executive chairman of EMC Corp.’s RSA security division, is in a position to size up the real threat.