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Hackers break into Azerbaijan Eurovision websites
BAKU (Reuters) - A group of hackers calling themselves Cyberwarriors for Freedom attacked the official websites of the Eurovision song contest on Thursday, demanding that the host nation, Azerbaijan, cancel next week's competition. Azerbaijan, a mainly Muslim ex-Soviet republic, won the right to host the contest by winning last year's event in Germany, and sees the competition as a chance to showcase the country. The grand finale is scheduled for May 26. ...
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UK agency approves BlackBerry 7 OS for government
 (Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use. This will allow the government employees to use six models of the smart phone including BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 9810 and BlackBerry Torch 9860, RIM said. Ministry of defence, central government employees and more than half of the country's police force use BlackBerry smart phones, the company said. (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)
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Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites
 Internet security researchers warned that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber espionage.
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Utah tech director resigns in wake of data theft
Utah's chief technology officer has resigned following the theft of hundreds of thousands of online medical records from state computers by unknown hackers.
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Cyberattacks Target Russian Broadcasters, Ustream CEO Responds
Popular online video broadcasting and streaming service Ustream has gone down only three times in its five-year history, but on Wednesday it was hit with the most complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack it's ever seen.
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