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A new congressional reports shows that every year the US government spends a shocking amount of money just to maintain ancient computer systems that it still uses; in some cases as old as 50 years.
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A South Carolina employee who clicked on a link in an email was the first step for hackers to later obtain millions of Social Security numbers and bank accounts from the state's servers.
The South Carolina Department of Revenue has announced that a cyber attack has exposed over 3.6 million of the state's Social Security numbers, along with 387,000 credit and debit card numbers.
Information from an agency in California could have leaked during an otherwise flawless exercise. The data contain the Social Security numbers of over 800,000 people.
Google has been doing something rather deceptive for a company whose motto is "don't be evil". Under the cover over their "Doodle-4-Google" the company has been collecting the last 4 digits of each entrant's (read...
