Data breach topples Australian LEGO fans - msnbc.com

Unlike in other data breaches, Squire said no LEGO Club member's personal information was posted on the public Internet for everyone to view. While it investigates the incident, LEGO Australia now requires customers to sign up by printing and mailing a ...

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Syria crisis: Turkey expels diplomats - live updates - The Guardian

There is speculation that efforts are being made to persuade Russia to back a call for the Assad regime to be referred to the international criminal court. • The Syrian consul general in California, Hazem Chehabi, has announced his resignation from his ...

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Megaupload lawyers move to kill US Internet piracy charges - Times LIVE

Founder of online file-sharing site Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom, a German national also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, attends a hearing at the North Shore District Court in Auckland, in this still image taken from video January 25, 2012.

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Data Culture #3: Tacocopter and the digital creep - The Guardian (blog)

Think of the whole bus tapping away like pigeons, think about that terrible itch to dig your phone out at any and every moment, to get online, to luxuriate in the pixel abyss. It surrounds and calls to us, yet the wild proliferation of screens is old ...

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Future of Thai internet in peril: Google - Sydney Morning Herald

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, who manages web content for Prachatai, violated the Computer Crimes Act because she failed to quickly erase content deemed insulting to the monarchy, Bangkok's Criminal Court said yesterday. The court gave her an eight-month ...

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Data breaches and cyber attacks - a danger to your health? - SC Magazine UK

A survey of 300 attendees at the Infosecurity Europe show by AlienVault found that a quarter believe that if their sites go down or they suffer a major security breach, it could be fatal. Barmak Meftah, CEO and president of AlienVault, said: 'We know ...

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Thai webmaster sentenced for not removing comments - CTV.ca

Chiranuch was prosecuted under Thailand's computer-crime laws, which were enacted in 2007 under an interim, unelected government that came to power after a coup a year earlier. The laws address hacking and other online offenses, but also bar the ...

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