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Wednesday, May 08, 2013  State Police in Rochester arrested a man for making a terrorist threat from a hacked Facebook account.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  Hackers have compromised the main Twitter account of The Associated Press, sending out an erroneous tweet about an attack at the White House.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013  The man who's considered America's first novelist and the author of "Where the Wild Things Are" will be inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013  Two major U.S. corporations are reporting they've been the target of hackers.

Monday, February 18, 2013  It appears that Burger King's Twitter account has been hacked. Starting just after noon Eastern time on Monday, the fast-foot company's Twitter picture was changed to a McDonald's logo, and the account tweeted that it had been sold to rival McDonald's.

Friday, February 15, 2013  Facebook Inc. says it was the target of hackers but no user information was compromised during the attack.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013  A Montana television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse. The network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station Monday.

Friday, February 01, 2013  In the latest online attack, Twitter says hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  The Times says security experts hired to plug the breach tracked the attacks to China -- in some cases computers identified with the Chinese military.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  Mac computers have stopped running programs written using the Java programming language in their browsers, as Apple blocked it because of security problems.

Saturday, January 12, 2013  Today the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement urging computer users to disable Java. This was a response to a flaw in the coding for the computer language.

Thursday, January 10, 2013  The Buffalo Bills announced in a press release today that Syracuse offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett will be joining Doug Marrone on the staff.

Monday, January 07, 2013  26 small businesses so far have lost thousands in fraudulent phone bills

Monday, January 07, 2013  Our love affair with mobile devices grew tremendously this past holiday, but with it come some old headaches, and potential danger.

Friday, November 09, 2012  The State Thruway Authority is planning to approve a toll hike for truckers as early as Friday.