Jaikumar Vijayan - Author - Good Gear Guide

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Article | 2/06/2008 RIM reportedly gets ultimatum over Indian BlackBerry service

Indian officials have reportedly issued an ultimatum to Research in Motion asking the Canadian company to provide a way for the government to monitor ...

Article | 27/05/2008 ID fraud-prevention firm LifeLock hit with customer lawsuits

As the CEO of LifeLock, Todd Davis has attracted considerable attention and controversy by publicly posting his Social Security number on the company'...

Article | 23/05/2008 ING looks to help customers secure online transactions

Despite numerous security measures by online banks and e-commerce sites to secure consumer data, few have been able or even willing to directly protec...

Article | 28/03/2008 What's in a name? Cybersquatting case has an answer

It's not often that a domain-name holder accused of cybersquatting actually prevails in a dispute with the party that filed the complaint. It's rarer ...

Article | 17/03/2008 Lawsuit could force American recording industry body to reveal investigation techniques

A US woman whose lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was thrown out by a federal judge last month plans to file an am...

Article | 3/03/2008 Judge lifts injunction against Wikileaks

In a move sure to be welcomed by privacy and civil rights advocates, a US District Court judge on Friday lifted a previous permanent injunction that h...

Article | 22/02/2008 Hacker group releases automated 'Google hacking' tool

The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group has released an open-source tool designed to enable IT workers to quickly scan their Web sites for security vuln...

Article | 19/02/2008 Teen pushed adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs

A teenager identified by U.S. law enforcement officials only as B.D.H pleaded guilty last week to charges that he used botnets to illegally install ad...

Article | 7/02/2008 Chat rooms, IM riskier than social-networking sites for kids

Parents who are concerned about their children being exposed to sexual predators and harassment on the Internet need to stop thinking of social networ...

Article | 4/02/2008 Visa adds to its list of apps that improperly hold card data

Visa this week privately issued an updated list of payment applications that store all of the magnetic-stripe data taken from credit and debit cards, ...

Article | 1/02/2008 Appeals court sides with prosecution in Kazaa porn case

If someone stores files that are clearly identifiable as child pornography in a folder that can be searched for and accessed by other users on a file-...

Article | 27/12/2007 The 2007 security hall of shame

How bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every s...

Article | 14/12/2007 Did Blockbuster, Facebook break privacy law with Beacon?

Did Facebook and Beacon partner Blockbuster violate a 1988 video privacy protection law when movie choices that Facebook members made on the latter's ...

Article | 10/12/2007 Phishers hook data on visitors to Oak Ridge Labs

In yet another example showing that clueless consumers aren't the only ones who fall victim to computer scams, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory yeste...

Article | 10/12/2007 Texas Attorney General sues two sites for children's privacy violations

Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott has sued two Web sites that cater to children for failing to take adequate measures to protect their identities an...