Published: Feb 19, 2012
Elizabeth Jami Oliner and Burt Herman are to be married Sunday at the Solage resort in Calistoga, Calif. Rabbi Katie Mizrahi is to officiate. Ms. Oliner, 33, will be keeping her name. She is an associate at Raj Abhyanker, a law firm in Mountain View, Calif. She graduated from Yale and received a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
Hackers who identified themselves as members of Anonymous said they observed the first anniversary of the Bahrain uprising by causing the Web site of Combined Systems, a Pennsylvania company, to crash. The hackers said the attack was in retaliation against the company, which is alleged to have sold tear gas canisters and grenades to Arab
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
Hackers who identified themselves as members of Anonymous said they observed the first anniversary of the Bahrain uprising by causing the Web site of Combined Systems, a Pennsylvania company, to crash. The hackers said the attack was in retaliation against the company, which is alleged to have sold tear gas canisters and grenades to Arab
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online shopping, banking, e-mail and other Internet services intended to remain private and secure. The flaw — which involves a small but measurable number of cases
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online shopping, banking, e-mail and other Internet services intended to remain private and secure. The flaw -- which involves a small but measurable number of cases -- has to
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Published: Feb 12, 2012
The usually sure-footed Adam Davidson stumbles when he writes: ''Every month, the United States buys around $35 billion in goods and services from China and sells around $11 billion back. That, of course, leaves a $24 billion trade deficit. Currencies work like any other salable good in that they adjust based on supply and demand. The natural
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Published: Feb 11, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film. He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings ''loaner'' devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In
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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 10, 2012
Citigroup's effort to become ''the world's digital bank'' has encountered a snag. A technical bug caused Citi, the nation's fourth largest bank by deposits, to double the charge for customer payments in recent months. Some customers using their iPads to settle their cable bill or mortgage payment, for example, actually paid twice, according to
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Published: Feb 09, 2012
The ghosts of two doomed antipiracy bills hang over a new and unrelated issue on Capitol Hill: proposed legislation to help secure the nation's nuclear plants, water systems and other essential infrastructure from hackers and terrorists. In both houses of Congress, legislation is gaining steam that would authorize the federal government to regulate
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