Millions of passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information may be at risk as a result of a major breakdown in Internet security revealed earlier this week.

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Last week, my cell phone started ringing incessantly. By “incessantly,” I mean every two seconds. The numbers that came through were not 10-digit numbers, but sometimes 15-to-20 digits. When I answered, the call disconnected. I called Verizon and was told there ...

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Maryland workers will soon be able to tweet, update their Facebook status and post information in LinkedIn without worrying about their bosses seeing any of it. The General Assembly passed a bill on Monday that would ban employers from asking ...

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Real estate information supplier CoStar Group Inc. won a $3.6 million judgment against three companies and their officers as part of a multistate password-sharing network. CoStar alleged that Mark Field and his California-based Alliance Valuation Group made money “obtaining and ...

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