Internet Security News
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Five dozen teenagers hunched over computers in a hotel conference room near Washington, decrypting codes, cleaning malware and fending off network intrusions to score points in the finals of a national cybersecurity contest.
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China wants to work with the U.S. on cybersecurity because the effects of an Internet attack could be as serious as a nuclear bomb, a Chinese general said at a briefing with the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Japanese stock futures were little changed, indicating the Nikkei 225 Stock Average may halt a two- day advance, after the yen gained for the first time in five days and investors await a Chinese manufacturing report. Australian equity futures rose.
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TeleSign Mobile, a unit of U.S. Internet security and authentication company TeleSign Corp., opened an operations center in Belgrade with plans to employ 100 workers.
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Microsoft Corp., hurt by a slump in global PC sales, is looking to Israel for innovation from its developers and acquisitions, as well as local startups, according to the company’s top executive in the country.
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Harvard University’s championships in four Quiz Bowl academic competitions were revoked after an audit showed a student cheated by looking at questions in advance.
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Blue Coat Systems Inc., a maker of Internet-security software, agreed to be bought by an investor group led by led by Thoma Bravo LLC for about $1.3 billion.
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Sohu.com Inc. fell in New York after denying a report that it’s looking to go private, while Guangshen Railway Co. led gains in Chinese stocks on government plans to build new railway lines.
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The FBI investigation that uncovered the extramarital affair leading to the resignation of CIA Director David H. Petraeus began after a woman complained to law enforcement officials about harassing e-mails, according to two officials briefed on the probe.
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A U.S. advisory panel failed to reach consensus on recommendations to telecommunications companies and Internet providers on how to bolster their computer systems against cyber attack.
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