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The U.S. government is shifting its strategy for defending federal networks against a rising tide of hacking attacks launched by foreign governments and criminals.  read more »

About a year ago security at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was breached and information affecting over 100 million credit cards stolen. Was it Heartland’s fault, or should the credit card companies shoulder more of the responsibility?  read more »

IBM announced a clustered NAS file system today that is aimed at cloud-computing environments that can scale in size to 14 petabytes of capacity under a single global name space.  read more »

One day after its launch, privacy concerns have been raised about Google's new Gmail-based social-networking tool, Buzz.  read more »

I wake up each morning with the same mix of hope and dread. I hope Google will buy me for a princely sum and allow me to retire to some sandy beach where they serve mojitos 24/7. And I fear Google will simply invent a better version of me, forcing me to get a job as a greeter at Wal-Mart.  read more »

Attending a Macworld Expo without Apple may seem like going to a rock concert to see the opening acts, but despite lacking the rock star presence, the show will go on nonetheless.  read more »

It has been a long three and a half weeks since Google made the dramatic announcement that it will no longer censor its search results in China, even if that means exiting that huge Internet market.  read more »

Facebook this week celebrated its sixth birthday, welcomed its 400 millionth user and redesigned its home page.  read more »

Sales of Google's Nexus One didn't improve over the smartphone's first month according to Flurry, the same firm that reported limp debut week sales.  read more »

Microsoft issued its Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2010 yesterday. The notice warns that Patch Tuesday next week will see 13 security bulletins, tying October 2009 for the most security bulletins released in a single month.  read more »