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Published: Feb 11, 2012
Hackers claimed responsibility for knocking the Web site of the Central Intelligence Agency offline on Friday, under the banner of the hacking collective Anonymous. By late Friday afternoon, the site was still unavailable. On Twitter, an account affiliated with Anonymous said it was responsible for the attack, which appeared to be one that involved

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Published: Feb 05, 2012
Until last Sunday, when Dalisha Adams, 26, a security guard, was arrested after being accused of depositing her two young daughters at an intersection in Canarsie, Brooklyn, with a stack of diapers, the emblem of bad parenting had been sticking most tenaciously to Xiao Xu Wu, a Manhattan mother accused of leaving her child untended in a casino

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Published: Feb 01, 2012
At the close of the Cold War, hopes were high for a more organized and peaceful international system. Two decades later, there is not much sign of one emerging. The focus of governments is shifting away from the Euro-Atlantic community -- the heart of the international system up to now -- and there is little consensus within the international

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Published: Jan 25, 2012
Following is the transcript of President Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 24, 2012, as released by the White House: THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq.

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Published: Jan 18, 2012
9:02 p.m. | Updated Barbara Scott just hit the trifecta of computer security breaches. Since the New Year, Ms. Scott has been a victim of three separate cyberattacks. Two weeks ago, the online auction site eBay said in an e-mail to her that there had been suspicious activity on her account. On Monday, she received an e-mail from Zappos and another

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Published: Jan 17, 2012
JERUSALEM -- Israel faced an escalating cyberwar on Monday as unknown attackers disrupted access to the symbolically strategic Web sites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al, the national airline. A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning

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Published: Jan 13, 2012
United States Representative Lamar Smith says online piracy is damaging the United States economy and putting American lives at risk. Foreign Web sites that distribute American-made entertainment and counterfeit products, like fake pharmaceuticals, are ''stealing our profits, they're stealing our jobs and they may be endangering the health of

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Published: Jan 11, 2012
Most of us are taught to think about the long-term consequences of our actions, but it is a life lesson that is easily forgotten -- both on an individual and an organizational level. This is why, each year, the World Economic Forum poses the question, ''What risks should the world's leaders be addressing over the next 10 years?'' In response, the

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Published: Jan 08, 2012
James Warren writes a column for The Chicago News Cooperative. On Thursday I asked four government officials who deal daily with secret documents about the significance of the unauthorized disclosure of American diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks. There was silence in the meeting room at the Marriott Chicago Downtown. Then Carl Ashley, who oversees

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Published: Dec 26, 2011
While the rest of the world engaged in merriment and good cheer, hackers used the holidays to attack a United States research group that puts out a daily newsletter on security issues. On Saturday, hackers who say they are members of the collective known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for crashing the Web site of the group, Stratfor Global

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