When 21 rogue apps started siphoning off identifying information from Android phones and installing security holes, Google yanked the lot from Android Market, and called the authorities to boot.
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Since he claims that 100% of their prospects and clients have infections that Damballa discovers it may be an interesting challenge to monitor your own networks for these digital spies that are siphoning off your information.
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The emphasis is on building a framework for information sharing, content creation, off-line information dissemination and web-based partnerships with organisations located outside the region.
Importantly, conveying information on off-label drugs to doctors is illegal even if the information is entirely truthful and has been corroborated by independent scientists and doctors.
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If it can display information off my mobile phone, too, all the better.
The intruders are making off with valuable information about U.S. military technology and tactics.
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The hedge fund clients, Samir Barai and Noah Freeman made trades off of that information and made millions.
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They are an excellent way for insiders to take information off your network.
"Most people are just sending this information off to their friends, " Jacobson said.
It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.
It will also support something called "near field communications, " which enables devices to read pricing or media information off chips costing 2 cents each.
If investment bankers are increasingly cut off from the information that analysts glean about companies, is there much point in keeping analysts at all?
One provision restricts the ability of drug makers to use sales and marketing personnel to distribute peer reviewed reprints of journal articles that contain off-label information.
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"You're better off treating this information the way you would the pilot coming over the loudspeakers and saying 'Please fasten your safety belt, "' Mr. Stovall says.
Although glitzy, stat-filled jerseys are certainly sufficient ways to get information off your chest (ahem), a new vibrating vest could give "body language" an entirely new meaning.
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One of the stories that I enjoy the most was the guy from Harris Corporation who was indexing all the information off the radar tower at JFK airport.
People get a lot of information, all of it from prints - where they get through the newspapers or through reading the information off of the Internet, some multimedia tools.
Nevertheless, JIC advised against the government establishing its own intelligence network in Northern Ireland as that would only alienate the authorities there and cut off what little information they received.
And Ganot believes that people trust the company to both pay them what it promises for their old electronics and to clean all the personal information off the devices before reselling them.
Of course, this also creates extra opportunities for thieves to make off with personal banking information.
By outlawing big changes in market prices, we are essentially cutting off the flow of information.
In February, Singapore police said they were questioning the alleged leader of the crime syndicate, Dan Tan Seet Eng, and had tipped off Italian authorities with information about the alleged crime ring.
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Another one is that we can also turn off the flow of information as we silence the smartphone and close the iPad to enjoy an evening with our family and close friends.
In February, Singapore police said they were questioning the alleged leader of the crime syndicate and had tipped off Italian authorities with information that led to the arrest of a suspected syndicate member.
Finally, the new settings will make it easier to turn off sharing of your information to applications, like games and quizzes, and to opt-out of instant personalization, a feature where partner websites like Windows Docs and Pandora automatically have access to your public profile information.
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You will be much better off making sure the information on your credit record is correct, your payments are on time and your monthly balances are reduced for a month or two before you might be applying for a new mortgage, car loan or credit card.
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To make matters worse, Picasa Web-Album syncing had been switched off a week before the information was found.
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The perhaps-all-too-convenient absence of this critical information should set off alarm bells.
She recommends holding off on sharing that personal information, which can seem like a great idea in the early euphoric stages of a new love.
One publisher during the war, who had initially accepted Animal Farm, subsequently turned it down after an official at the British Ministry of Information warned him off.
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