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This Week in Cybercrime: Are Strong Passwords Only for Your Important Accounts?

Plus: Eavesdrop-ready Internet is a disaster waiting to happen19 May

Lost in America: Still No Phone Service After Hurricane Sandy

In several communities, Verizon has not restored landline phone service in seven months—and may never14 May

This Week in Cybercrime: State Court Hack Punishes the Guilty and the Innocent

Plus: The NSA wrote the book on cybercrime12 May

This Week in Cybercrime: Nearly 90 Percent of All Websites Vulnerable

Plus: U.S. wants more snooping capability, online image booster hacked5 May

Kymeta Demos First Ever Satellite Link With Metamaterials Antenna

The Intellectual Ventures spinoff is one step closer to cheap satellite broadband1 May

This Week in Cybercrime: You Can Be Convicted of Hacking Even If You’re Not a Hacker

Plus: Critical infrastructure left unguarded, and cyberthieves hunt from up close28 Apr

Marriage by Skype

When advanced telecommunications is the only way to get you to the church on time26 Apr

Mobile Broadband’s Boom

Are wired data connections going the way of phone landlines?25 Apr

When Spectrum Auctions Fail 

For some microwave links, cooperation beats  competition as a way to share the air 25 Apr

The Hacked Tweet That Took Down Wall Street

A rogue AP tweet roils Wall Street; algorithmic trading on machine readable news partially to blame24 Apr

This Week in Cybercrime: U.S. House Passes Bill Allowing Firms to Share Customer Info With the Government

Plus: Small companies under attack; sophisticated UK malware; phishy IRS e-mails21 Apr

Altia Systems Has a Fix for Low-Cost Video Conferencing

The $600 PanaCast puck may take some of the pain out of video conferencing19 Apr

This Week in Cybercrime: Tax-related ID Thefts Hit 1.8M in 2012

Plus: Who is behind the South Korea cyberattack? And more warnings on infrastructure vulnerabilities14 Apr

This Week in Cybercrime: Companies Attacked Every Three Minutes

Plus: Bitcoin’s success puts it in hackers’ crosshairs7 Apr

First Portable Telephone Call Made 40 years Ago Today

Walking down a Manhattan sidewalk, Motorola’s Martin Cooper called his rival at AT&T Bell Labs3 Apr

Let’s Talk About Hashtags

Twitter continues to spawn new social practices, and new words to talk about them30 Mar

This Week in Cybercrime: “Anonymized” Cellphone Tracking Data is Pure Fiction

Plus: Spam-In-a-Blanket29 Mar

Divers Caught Cutting Internet Backbone Cable

Egyptian saboteurs damage cable, affect service across northern Africa and Asia28 Mar

Internet Spam Fighter Weathers Massive Attack

Cybercrooks hit Spamhaus with largest DDoS attack ever recorded28 Mar

This Week in Cybercrime: What Do We Know about the South Korean Cyberattack?

Plus: BitTorrent sites on the hook for copyright infringement24 Mar

Peaceful Coexistence on the Radio Spectrum

The trials of a small team of engineers who set out to reanimate paralyzed limbs demonstrate the virtues of dynamic spectrum sharing20 Mar

Are Paywalls Working?

The successful paywall for Andrew Sullivan’s blog may have everyone rethinking free content19 Mar

This Week in Cybercrime: Hackers More Dangerous than Al Qaeda?

Plus: U.S. cyberattack monitor hacked and Android apps steal data15 Mar

This Week in Cybercrime: Judge Upholds LinkedIn's "If You Put It on Our Site, Don't Blame Us If It Gets Out"

Plus: The Week in Google8 Mar

This Week in Cybercrime: Stuxnet Two Years Older Than Previously Believed

Plus: Advanced malware uses tweets to defeat security measures, a cryptography luminary says we need a new way to keep data secure, your ISP might shut down your online service for copyright infringement, and the U.S. Supreme Court dismisses a challenge to the government’s cybersnooping1 Mar