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2 nabbed at Texas border in credit card fraud case
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Account information stolen during the Target security breach is now being divided up and sold off regionally, a South Texas police chief said Monday following the arrest of two Mexican citizens who authorities say arrived at the border with 96 fraudulent credit cards.
Germany: 16 million online accounts compromised
Germany's Internet security agency says an analysis of hijacked computer networks has turned up about 16 million compromised online accounts.
Overstock.com sees new market in Bitcoins
Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com says it's the first major retailer to accept digital Bitcoins as payment for goods.
Amnesty condemns Greek blogger conviction
Amnesty International has expressed "serious concern" over the conviction of a Greek blogger who was sentenced to 10 months in prison for creating a social networking page that mocked a prominent Greek Orthodox monk.
Silicon Valley sees shortage of EV charge stations
An increasing number of electric-vehicle driving employees at Silicon Valley companies are finding it hard to charge their cars at work, creating incidents of "charge rage" among drivers competing for charging access.
Some Obama spy changes hampered by complications
STEPHEN BRAUN Legal experts warn that several of the key surveillance reforms pushed by President Barack Obama face complications that could muddy the proposals' authority, slow their momentum in Congress and saddle the government with heavy costs and bureaucracy.
Vietnam's 'cyber troops' take fight to US, France
CHRIS BRUMMITT Working on her blog in California one day, Vietnamese democracy activist Ngoc Thu sensed something was wrong. The keyboard was sticky. Cut-and-paste wasn't working. She had "a feeling that somebody was there" inside her computer. Her hunch turned out to be right.
Turkish police break up violent Internet protest
BERZA SIMSEK and SUZAN FRASER Riot police on Saturday fired plastic bullets, tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of people in Istanbul protesting a government plan to expand controls over the public's use of the Internet.
Tech industry: Obama's NSA reforms 'insufficient'
MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama's speech on U.S. surveillance as a step in the right direction, but chided him for not embracing more dramatic reforms to protect people's privacy and the economic interests of American companies that generate most of their revenue overseas.
Court: Bloggers have First Amendment protections
JEFF BARNARD A federal appeals court has ruled bloggers and the public have the same First Amendment protections as journalists when sued for defamation: If the issue is of public concern, plaintiffs have to prove negligence to win damages.
Shoppers fret about authenticity of Target emails
BREE FOWLER An email sent to the roughly 70 million Target customers who may have been affected by a pre-Christmas data breach is causing panic among those who fear it could be an attempt to victimize them again.
Slumping Intel to cut more than 5,000 jobs in 2014
MICHAEL LIEDTKE Intel plans to trim more than 5,000 jobs from its workforce this year in an effort to boost its earnings amid waning demand for its personal computer chips.
Intel chairs ask Obama to send bill on NSA changes
The chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees are praising President Barack Obama's speech laying out changes to U.S. spying programs. But they're questioning whether Obama's proposal to end the government's control of phone data is necessary.
Questions and answers about Obama's new NSA rules
CONNIE CASS President Barack Obama is putting limits on the harvesting of Americans' phone records and seeking revisions to a program that sweeps up email and Internet data around the world, seven months after former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden began divulging the secret spying. Some questions and answers about Obama's plan:
Obama's proposed changes in NSA spy programs
The Associated Press President Barack Obama is calling for major changes in the way the U.S. intelligence community collects and stores information about people in the U.S. and abroad following disclosures that have sparked fury over sweeping government surveillance and stoked concerns about privacy. Some of the changes will take effect immediately. Others will require further study and may take action by Congress to be implemented. A look at some of the changes the president is proposing:
IBM to invest over $1.2B in cloud services
IBM plans to invest over $1.2 billion to expand its cloud services operations.
Philippine police in uphill battle vs child porn
OLIVER TEVES Cracking down on online child pornography is a growing challenge for Philippine police because those involved increasingly use unregistered pre-paid mobile phones lines and Internet devices that are hard to trace, a senior officer said Friday.
Europe launches RoboEarth: 'Wikipedia for Robots'
TOBY STERLING Let the robot race begin.
Google contact lens could be option for diabetics
MARTHA MENDOZA Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a hair-thin antenna. Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.
Target breach appears to be part of broader scam
The security breach that hit Target Corp. during the crucial holiday season seemed to be part of a broader and highly sophisticated scam that affected several retailers, says a report published by a global cyber intelligence firm that works with the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.
W.Va. chemical spill company to transfer chemicals
Associated Press The company responsible for a chemical spill that contaminated water in West Virginia will bring in sturdier containment structures after incurring safety violations at a second chemical storage facility.
US: $28 million bitcoins forfeiture is a record
LARRY NEUMEISTER A record $28 million of bitcoins was formally transferred to the U.S. government several months after it was seized from the server of the black market website Silk Road after the government claimed the digital currency was used to facilitate money laundering, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Sprint restores plan for faster phone upgrades
Sprint is restoring the ability for customers to upgrade phones more quickly.
For Obama, NSA review a quest for public trust
JULIE PACE Faced with Edward Snowden's first leaks about the government's sweeping surveillance apparatus, President Barack Obama's message to Americans boiled down to this: trust me.
High court takes cases on cellphone searches
MARK SHERMAN The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police need a warrant to search the cellphones of people they have arrested.
Best Buy holiday sales fall, shares skid
Best Buy said Thursday it had disappointing sales during the holiday shopping season, raising concerns about the consumer electronic retailer's ability to turn around its business.
Facebook adds trending topics to site
BARBARA ORTUTAY In a move that echoes Twitter, Facebook is adding a feature to its service that lets users know the topics of discussion that are trending among the site's 1.2 billion users, whether it's the death of a world leader or the Oscars.
HHS No. 2 doesn't recall elevating security worry
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR The second-in-command at the federal Health and Human Services Department says he doesn't recall reporting security concerns about the administration's health insurance website to higher-ups.
Judge: $1.17 billion patent verdict for CMU stands
A federal judge declined to reduce a $1.17 billion patent infringement verdict that Carnegie Mellon University won against a California technology firm in 2012.
California motorist cleared in Google Glass case
JULIE WATSON A San Diego traffic court threw out a citation Thursday against a woman believed to be the first motorist in the country ticketed for driving while wearing a Google Glass computer-in-eyeglass device.
