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Article | 18/11/2008 McColo takedown: Vigilantism or Neighborhood Watch?

Few tears were shed when McColo, a US-based ISP that allegedly hosted companies known to be prolific purveyors of spam and other malware, was suddenly...

Article | 6/11/2008 Report: 'Foreign entity' hacked Obama, McCain PCs

Computer systems used by the election campaigns of both President-elect Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain were broken into earlier thi...

Article | 3/11/2008 Harvard professor challenges RIAA anti-piracy campaign

A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by...

Article | 20/10/2008 Up next: Cellular botnets, cyber militias

The ability of malware writers to consistently stay ahead of those seeking to stop them has been a constant factor in the security industry over the p...

Article | 13/10/2008 Report: World Bank servers breached repeatedly

A number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data mig...

Article | 19/09/2008 Web proxy firm working with FBI to trace Palin e-mail hacker

The Webmaster of a proxy service called Ctunnel.com, which may have been used by a hacker to illegally access the e-mail account of Republican vice pr...

Article | 16/09/2008 Do ISPs pose a bigger online privacy threat than Google?

The increased monitoring and profiling of Internet users by companies such as Google and its DoubleClick online advertising subsidiary is widely seen ...

Article | 15/08/2008 Judge refuses to lift gag order in subway-hack case

A US federal judge in Boston Thursday refused to lift a temporary restraining order preventing three MIT students from publicly discussing details of ...

Article | 14/08/2008 Complaints filed over RIAA's piracy investigators

A company that is regularly used by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to gather evidence against individuals in copyright infringem...

Article | 29/07/2008 McAfee: Many SMBs unprepared for online security threats

A surprisingly large number of small and midsize businesses appear to be either blissfully unaware of or uncaring about the online security threats th...

Article | 19/06/2008 Data thieves get focused (but buyers get sloppy)

When it comes to online data theft, credit card numbers and bank account data are so 2007.

Article | 13/06/2008 Google warned about missing link to privacy policy

A California lawmaker has joined the chorus of voices urging Google to include a link to its privacy policy on the home page of its Web site, as requi...

Article | 12/06/2008 Gartner advises caution on new iPhone's place in companies

The enhanced security features built into Apple's new iPhone 3G will enable the devices to be connected more securely into corporate networks. But tha...

Article | 4/06/2008 Google asked to add home page link to privacy policies

In the latest indication of the growing unease in some quarters over Google's privacy policies, a coalition of advocacy groups is asking the search co...

Article | 2/06/2008 Will proposed treaty make border agents copyright cops?

An Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under quiet negotiation by several countries including the US and Canada is raising concern in some quar...