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Excellence in Financial Journalism Award
New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants announcement of award.
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Links to USA Today stories in descending chronological order
USA Today blog post on Bank of America SafeCard.
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USA Today blog post on captcha breakers.
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USA Today cover story on rising corporate intrusions.
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USA Today blog post on Pentagon patching.
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USA Today news feature on the mindset of hackers and scammers.
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USA Today blog post on Microsoft’s emergency RPC-DCOM patch.
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USA Today cover story on a $6-million cyber bank heist.
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USA Today blog post on Wachovia phishing ruse.
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USA Today news story on what companies can learn from Palin hack.
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USA Today blog post on Sarah Palin Yahoo mail hack.
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USA Today blog post on deluge of Obama, McCain spam.
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USA Today blog post on Bush cyber security disaster.
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USA Today news story on mobile devices as the next profit center for hackers.
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USA Today cover story on how botnets are driving the escalation of cybercrime.
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Our story from RSA on cyber crime’s spreading impact.
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Our story on other security tools consumers should use.
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Our story on TJX paying a $24 million settlement to MasterCard.
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Our story on cross-site scripting attacks escalating.
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Our story on fuzzing tools triggering targeted attacks.
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Our story on botnets saturating the Internet.
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Our story on cybercriminals getting craftier:
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Our story on the FTC’s lax oversight of credit bureaus’ sale of sensitive data to subprime lenders:
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Our story on credit bureaus’ deceptive marketing practices:
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Our story on TJX actually losing 94 million credit card records:
Our story on theft of personal data tripling in 2007:
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Our story on Experian and Equifax offering credit freezes:
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Our story on TransUnion offering credit freezes:
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Our story on Iceman’s indictment:
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Our story on Monster.com losing 1.3 million files:
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Our story on WiFi hacks:
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Our story on the Storm e-card email virus:
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Our story on gift card scams:
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Our story on how credit bureaus lobby to block credit freeze laws:
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Our story on military personnel becoming the target of ID theft:
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Our story on the FBI arresting bot herders:
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Our story on how stolen data is used on the streets:
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Our story on how credit bureaus loosely handle credit histories :
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Our story on arrest of a spammer:
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Our story on how data brokers loosely handle sensitive information:
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Our story on Chinese target cyber attacks on military networks:
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Our story on hostile takeovers among the carding forums:
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Our story on the new Ajax attack surface:
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Our story on Apple coming under for-profit attacks:
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Our story on Web attacks getting more stealthy:
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Our story on script kiddie bot herders:
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Our story on meth addicts specializing in drop accounts:
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Our stories on security implications of Internet-enabled financial services:
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Our story on reshipping mules:
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Our honeypot test showing how quickly and often PCs get attacked:
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Our stories explaining bots and bot networks:
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