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We're barely six weeks into 2012, and the year is turning out to be one of the worst for cyberattacks in recent memory. Here are a few reasons why. For online security professionals, 2012 is turning out to be a banner year.

John Brandon, gadget reviewer and contributing editor for Inc. magazine, reviewed roughly 400 products in 2011. Here are the ones that stood out above the rest.

Since he experienced tragedy at age of 14, the real-life psychologist who inspired the show "Lie To Me" has searched for signs of hidden human emotion in faces. New applications based on his findings are getting attention from Apple, Pixar, Google, the Army, and others. Expert humans or face-reading machines could have saved thousands of lives on 9/11 by detecting the emotional states of hijackers

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Whatever you may feel about independent "hactivist" groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec , they are good at what they do. In the past few weeks members of these two groups have claimed responsibility for a number of data theft incidents, including the recent theft of more than 1 million user names and passwords from the Sony pictures web site . They then post these stolen names and passwords on message boards and

1. Sony Greece seems to have been hack attacked , the latest in a horrible round of digital invasions into Sony's network

1. Rumors have often swirled that Skype was up for acquisition, and now the latest batch suggest that Google and Facebook are involved in a rival courtship dance around the VoIP firm.

As the Sony PlayStation hack aftermath continues, it seems the Network won't be back in full for up to a week. Sony, in its advisory note (shown as a wordcloud above), cautions the 77 million victims to watch their bank accounts and check for phishing.