The cover media used to hide data and the actions performed to locate and recover messages mimic those of innocent users, allowing Collage users to argue that they were unaware of the presence of hidden data.

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Aside from the relative ease with which attackers guess passwords, once they have stolen the list of usernames and hashed ( a one-way algorithm used to hide data) passwords, the attacker just checks a dictionary of hashed words against the hashed passwords to find matches.

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Both options won't offer premium features such as WiFi tethering and Sprint Navigation, but Sprint says customers will see neither hide nor hair of data caps or speed throttling.

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It added that staff had not reported feeling under pressure to hide breaches or to manipulate data.

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Equally, drugs firms that demonstrate they have nothing to hide by giving full access to data could receive a massive boost in support from patients, medical staff and those all-important trial volunteers.

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Rather than hide under a mattress, overwhelmed by the plethora of data affecting your investments, look within yourself.

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The lack of market transparency into data breaches for anything other than personally identifiable information also helps organizations underestimate or hide (intentionally or otherwise) the true cost of cyber incidents.

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The US government has set up a website to report offending calls, but many Spammers hide their Caller ID information preventing anyone who files a complaint from being able to provide complete data on who disturbed their peace.

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