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Security company scours 'Dark Web' for stolen data
2013-10-01 13:49:08| InfoWorld: Top News
Alex Holden, founder of security company Hold Security, is in the business of bringing companies bad news. Holden often reaches out to organizations, alerting them that their valuable data is circulating on underground hacker forums. These days, that's pretty frequent.
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Mexico scours for dozens missing amid floods as storms abate
2013-09-21 08:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rescuers cleared mud from shattered houses on Friday, searching for dozens of people missing after a mudslide flattened their village in southwest Mexico as some of the most destructive storms to hit the country in decades abated. Dozens of homes in La Pintada, a village about 60 miles from the beach resort of Acapulco, were swallowed up by a mudslide touched off by heavy rain and flooding at the weekend that has killed at least 100 people across Mexico and forced thousands of people to abandon...
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Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster
2013-05-08 14:57:17| InfoWorld: Top News
A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves. Downdetector.com, which rolled out in the U.S. last month, sees itself as "the weatherman for the digital world," by detecting outages and interruptions on cellphone networks, banking services, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and business services such as Salesforce.com.
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