Zappos Hacked: What You Need to Know

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January 17, 2012
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Zappos Hacked: What You Need to Know The popular online shoe site, Zappos.com, has revealed that attackers have compromised information of its 24 million customers. Here is what you need to know about this breach and what do to next.
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Wikipedia, Other Sites to Protest Anti-Piracy Bills with Blackouts Wikipedia plans to go dark for 24 hours as part of a larger online protest against the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP acts being considered by Congress.
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Protect Your Facebook Account from the Latest Hack Want to prevent criminals from hacking your Timeline? Ignore those alarmist Facebook status updates and follow these steps instead.
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AMD's Ultrathin Set to Undercut Intel Ultrabooks by $200 AMD hopes to take down Intel's Ultrabooks on price, and is set to launch its platform for thin and light laptops in June.
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Wikipedia to Go Dark in SOPA Protest, Twitter Declines Wikipedia decides to black out the English version of the online encyclopedia for 24 hours on Wednesday to protest against controversial legislation in the United States.
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Windows 8 Tablet Requirements Revealed Microsoft's Windows 8 hardware certification requirements call for five-finger multi-touch, 720p cameras and 1366-by-768 resolution screens.
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Apple Cofounder Wozniak Praises Android Steve Wozniak says he wishes his iPhone did all the things his Android does.
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Suspects Behind Facebook Koobface Hack Named Security investigators identified the five men, all of whom live in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Windows 8 Tablets: Still Hiding Little was heard or seen of Windows 8 tablets at CES; where were they, and what's to come?
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Leading ISPs, Websites Commit to June 6 Start for IPv6 AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, and Google are among those on board for World IPv6 Launch.
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Fake Names Better on Comments: Study Researchers find quality of anonymous in the Disqus platform outshines commenters who use real names or prefer anonymity.
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Max Payne 3 Delayed Until May, Take-Two Revenue Tumbles Take-Two announces two-month Max Payne delay, says it'll force the company to take a net loss on its fiscal year.
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Mozilla Slows Pace of Firefox 9 Upgrades Firefox 9 has yet to be completely offered as an update to all users, according to notes from a company meeting.
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When Your Data's in the Cloud, Is It Still Your Data? Your contract with a cloud provider should have language clearly affirming your ownership of your data.
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Apple Led U.S. System Shipment at Year's End Apple was the only top-five computer maker to post shipment gains in the U.S. during the final quarter of 2011, a pair of research firms say.
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Free Windows Tool Offers a One-Stop Shop for Linux 'Get Linux' is a portable, open source tool for Windows that offers quick access to more than 100 Linux distributions.
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Telescopes Team Up to Give Us Our First Real Look at a Black Hole Scientists and telescopes around the world team up to take the first-ever photo of a black hole.
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