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• HP's former CEO Carly Fiorina explores GOP presidential run

  Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who has never held public office and was fired from her HP job in 2005, is considering a run for president. And why not?

• Hackers reportedly target unclassified White House network

  Hackers targeted an unclassified White House network in recent weeks but did not damage any systems, according to news reports.

• Tor hints at possible U.S. government involvement in recent attack

  Hackers attacked the infrastructure of Tor, the anonymizing service, earlier this month in an incident that may have compromised a number of hidden services, according to an announcement posted today by the Tor Project's director, Roger Dingledine.

• NSA defends collecting data from U.S. residents not suspected of terrorist activities

  The National Security Agency Monday defended its data collection practices amid revelations that almost 90% of the data it sweeps up involves ordinary Internet users not suspected of crimes.

• 9 of 10 online accounts intercepted by NSA are not intended surveillance target

  Although NSA officials were not sure about what all documents Edward Snowden took with him, they've changed their tune a few times after some new leak proves their previous proclamations to be false...like when former NSA Chief Keith Alexander admitted to lying about phone surveillance stopping 54 terror plots. Despite a year of NSA officials claiming that Edward Snowden had access to reports about NSA surveillance, but no access to actual surveillance intercepts, that ends up being lie too.

• Dems' plan would force FCC to ban Internet fast lanes

  Democrat lawmakers plan to keep the FCC from allowing ISPs from offering higher-bandwidth connections for some Internet traffic over others.

• Big data funding spree continues

  Venture capital firms continue to funnel big sums of money to big data startups. Hadoop player Cloudera announced $160 million in new financing, and analytics startup Platfora raised $38 million.

• Feds to dump CGI from Healthcare.gov project

  The Obama Administration is set to fire CGI Federal as prime IT contractor of the problem-plagued Healthcare.gov website, a report says.

• FireEye snaps up cyber forensics firm Mandiant for $106.5 million

  Security vendor FireEye today announced it has acquired privately-held endpoint security incident response vendor Mandiant for $106.5 million.

• Washington Post reports servers attacked, suspects Chinese hackers

  The Washington Post's servers were recently broken into by a group of unknown origin that gained access to the user names and passwords of its employees, the paper said on Wednesday.

• NSA taps tracking cookies used by Google, others, to monitor surveillance targets

  The browser cookies that online companies use to track Internet customers for targeted advertising are also used by the National Security Agency to track surveillance targets and break into their systems.

• NSA cites Reagan-era executive order to justify collection of cellphone location data

  The National Security Agency on Friday cited a 1981 executive order signed by then-President Ronald Reagan as the authority under which it is collecting location data daily from tens of millions of cell phones around the world.

• NSA collects data from millions of cellphones worldwide

  The U.S. National Security Agency is collecting location data daily from tens of millions of cellphones around the world, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.

• NSA Director Denies Knowledge of Google, Yahoo Hack

  Confronted with the latest revelation from the Snowden disclosures, Gen. Keith Alexander says that the NSA obtains data from tech companies only through a court order.

• NSA Leaker Snowden May Have Had Help

  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers is skeptical that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden could have known to look for all the documents he leaked and been able to circumvent security checks on his own.