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The biggest news story of the past month came not from a factory, boardroom or government, but from Mother Nature. Early in November, Typhoon Haiyan hit Southeast Asia with extremely high winds—nearly 200 miles per hour—becoming the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall.... More Info

If there’s one benefit to writing about fashion rather than technology (besides, that is, the glamorous parties, the beautiful people, the exotic locations, and generally being cooler in nearly every conceivable way), it’s that trends are easily identifiable and manifest themselves in a way that’s tangible and seemingly instantaneous.... More Info

At the end of October, Adobe Systems announced that data belonging to 38 million of its customers had been obtained by hackers, who’d infiltrated the company’s systems at least two months earlier, along with the source code for three of its products. The server that housed Adobe’s database also housed a PR Newswire database of customer logins and passwords, which hackers stole and leveraged for various additional exploits, such as uploading fraudulent press releases.... More Info

The virtual private network (VPN) represents an economical and efficient way for a company to communicate with remote employees, vendors and other partners by providing a secure method for those authorized users to access its corporate network.... More Info

On August 10, Marc Gilbert heard a voice coming from the bedroom of his two-year-old daughter, but it wasn’t his wife’s and it certainly wasn’t a lullaby. The voice belonged to a man with a British accent who had hacked into the Texas home to unleash a diatribe of explicit language.... More Info