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“PayPal is a fucking liar, a cheat and a thug,” says Cryptome operator John Young. The eBay-owned payment service closed the Cryptome account last week, with over $5,000 of donations intended for Young in limbo.…

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Every twt.tl bit helps

Twitter has tightened up security procedures in order to curtail phishing attacks against users of the micro-blogging service, which have become rampant over recent weeks.…

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Online banking losses up though

A rise in online banking fraud losses took some of the shine off the overall fall in debit and credit fraud in the UK last year.…

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A senior Indian banker has been arrested by Indian police for an online fraud in which hackers siphoned close to 2.7 million Indian rupees ($60,000 U.S.) from a bank account, a senior police official of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu said on Wednesday.

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Increasing cyberattacks against the online bank accounts of small and mid-size businesses has prompted growing calls for improved online banking security.

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Change in Focus

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Add these apps to your iPhone, BlackBerry or Android phone for your next trip.

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Kiss and don’t tell

Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…

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Feds cuff JihadJane

A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.…

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Updated at 2:00 p.m.:Scott Moore, the U.S. executive producer of MSN, talked about why MSN is redesigning its site and how the company hopes the new, cleaner Web site will help Microsoft generate search traffic and advertising sales.

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