Ed Oswald - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 11/05/2011 Facebook users lax on privacy, protecting children online

Facebook users still do not use privacy controls to protect themselves, and a third of children under 18 are below the site's minimum age of 13, Consu...

Article | 7/05/2011 Attackers use Google image search to distribute malware

Attackers are now using Google's image search to distributed malware, security experts say. Thousands of sites have reportedly been compromised by cod...

Article | 6/05/2011 Sony shifts blame back to Anonymous for PSN attack

In a response to a congressional inquiry into the hack of the PlayStation Network, Sony appears to have shifted the blame back to the hacktivist group...

Article | 5/05/2011 CBS sued for distributing LimeWire software

An entrepreneur and over a dozen hip-hop artists are suing CBS over its part in contributing to piracy. The suit, filed by FilmOn founder Alki David ...

Article | 3/05/2011 Julian Assange: Facebook an 'appalling spying machine'

Julian Assange claims that Facebook is complacent in providing the U.S. government with a way to spy on its citizens, calling it "the most appalling s...

Article | 2/05/2011 Google tracks you too, internal e-mails show

A series of internal e-mails from last year highlights how important location data is to Google, and likely gives more ammunition to privacy advocates...

Article | 29/04/2011 Feds Agree to End Antitrust Oversight of Microsoft

After May 12, Microsoft will no longer be the subject of antitrust oversight as U.S. Department of Justice lawyers have agreed to let the 10-year-old ...