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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, 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.

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, June 21, 2012  Scam artists are now targeting Facebook pages, what can you do to protect yourself?

Wednesday, March 14, 2012  An increasing number of people are going mobile, but malware attacks on those devices are on the rise as well.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012  The group that hacked into the Syracuse Police department website has struck again, this time out west in California.

Friday, February 03, 2012  If you try to log on to the Syracuse Police website you will be redirected to an unrelated page because the department has dismantled the site after it was hacked into by the group Anonymous