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Your email is the skeleton key to your online identity. When you lose control of your email to a hacker – not if, but when you lose control of your email to a hacker – the situation is dire. Email is a one stop shop for online identity theft. You should start thinking of security for your email as roughly equivalent to the sort of security you'd want on your bank account. It's exceedingly close to that in practice.

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Etsy, the popular marketplace for all things handmade, just announced that it will not just be hosting the 2012 session of Hacker School at its headquarters in New York, but that it will also offer ten $5,000 grants to women who would like to attend this year’s session but don’t have the financial means to do so. As Etsy’s VP of engineering Marc Hedlund notes, the idea here is to ensure that about 50% of the next Hacker School class of about 40 participants will be female.

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A fully patched version of Internet Explorer running on the most secure version of Windows yet was the second browser to fall at an annual hacker competition designed to test resistance of internet software to real-world attacks.

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CCleaner is probably the most popular PC maintenance tool out there. There are lighter utilities that can clean the system garbage files, if that’s not enough, you should try the SlimCleaner. It’s the CCleaner on steroid. It has almost all the features CCleaner offers, and it does more.

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If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.

Whether they are out to steal money or merely wreak havoc, the consequences of an exploit gone bad can be harsh. And these days, the margin for error can be measured in bits. After all, thanks to the Internet's international nature, cyber outlaws have an awful lot of sheriffs sniffing out their online footsteps.

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This would be a great story to use in any course on computer/internet ethics to spark discussion and do some research on keeping your resources secure.

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Notorious hacker collective Anonymous on Tuesday threatened to “kill” Facebook on Nov. 5, according to a YouTube video spotlighted on official channels used by the group.

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These 7 computer freaks are a security breach we'd totally let happen. To us. As men. Hacker chicks have got to be the internet's greatest product. Their mix of intelligence, geekiness and sex appeal is a code nobody wants to crack, and the fact that they play with fire makes them that much hotter. So here are the hottest hacker chicks in internet history along with their stories, what they're good at and a few pics of what they look like.

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The message describes what was a method of hacking a Facebook account via a phishing attack where the scammer sets up a website to look exactly like the Facebook login page in order to fool users into entering their Facebook password and username which are duly stolen by the scammer.

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Tech site CNET's posted a great interview with teen-hacker-turned-paid-security-expert Marc Maiffret about his history hacking and the state of security in the current OS ecosystem. Apart from lauding Microsoft for making huge strides in security.

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"Many of us have jailbroken our iPhones, but did everyone remember to change the default root password? "

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Today, I’d like to go over what makes a good, strong password, the kind you should be using to, at minimum, protect online access to your financial accounts.

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