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Article | 10/12/2007 Attorney wants judge to reduce jury award in RIAA case

The attorney for a woman recently ordered by a Minnesota jury to pay US$222,000 (AU$253,108.86) in damages for violating music copyrights said Thursda...

Article | 7/12/2007 Cookie variants can skirt blockers, anti-spyware tools

Just because your Web browser is set to block third-party tracking cookies that doesn't mean all of them are being blocked.

Article | 5/12/2007 DOJ: $222,000 award in RIAA copyright case not excessive

The U.S. Department of Justice says a US$222,000 damage award in a music copyright infringement case won recently by the Recording Industry Associatio...

Article | 5/12/2007 Facebook's Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg

Facebook's Beacon ad service may, ironically, be the best thing that's happened to the online privacy movement in a while.

Article | 3/12/2007 Oregon: Ground Zero in RIAA, alleged music pirates fight

Oregon is fast becoming Ground Zero in the contentious battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the tens of thousands o...

Article | 30/11/2007 Shorter SANS 'Net risk list doesn't mean more security

There were no overwhelming surprises in the SANS Institute's much-quoted annual list of Top 20 Internet security risks -- unless you count the fact th...

Article | 22/11/2007 Commerce Bank breached -- don't tell

A bank in the US has notified an unspecified number of its 3 million customers of a recent data breach involving the potential compromise of their per...

Article | 9/11/2007 Seattle man pleads guilty to ID theft over P2P networks

A man charged with stealing information over file-sharing networks in order to commit identity theft pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court in Sea...

Article | 26/10/2007 Visa rolls out new payment application security mandates

Amid signs of growing frustration in the retail community over the credit card industry's payment card industry (PCI) data security requirements, Visa...

Article | 24/10/2007 Phishers (almost) scam grocery giant out of US$10 million

Apparently it's not just unwary individuals that fall victim to online scammers. Even large corporations, it seems, can get suckered into parting with...

Article | 22/10/2007 Social engineering: The good guys strike back

If you can't beat them, scam them back...or slander them into quitting.

Article | 18/10/2007 Six hot items on the hacker's holiday shopping list

Malicious hackers and other assorted bad guys looking for new tools for plying their trade this upcoming holiday season will have plenty of toys and s...

Article | 12/10/2007 Student who disclosed breach to paper escapes expulsion

A student at Western Oregon University who accidentally discovered a file containing personal data on a publicly accessible university server and then...

Article | 6/10/2007 RIAA win could bolster efforts against illegal file sharing

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is likely to use last Thursday's [[ArtId:1880068734|courtroom victory|new]] in a file-sharing ca...

Article | 6/10/2007 Jury orders woman to pay US$222,000 for illegal music sharing

A US federal jury, on Thursday ordered a Minneapolis woman to pay US$220,000 to six music companies for illegally downloading and sharing copyrighted ...