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HSBC exposed sensitive bankruptcy data

Northrop Grumman launches cybersecurity research group

Viviane Reding picked to re-write EU data protection laws

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Microsoft to release security guidelines for Agile

Gumblar malware's home domain is active again

Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace

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