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Article | 31/07/2008 Extradition appeal for British hacker dismissed

A British hacker who admitted breaking into US military computers hoping to uncover evidence of UFOs looks set to be extradited to the US after the hi...

Article | 29/07/2008 Google Italy could face criminal charges over video

Italian prosecutors are wrapping up an investigation that could see four Google executives charged for failing to block the posting of a video of a di...

Article | 28/07/2008 Yahoo: Burn your DRMed tracks to CD now

Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM (digital rights management), drawing ...

Article | 23/07/2008 Kaspersky says hacking attack did no damage

The defacement of one of Kaspersky Lab's partner Web sites over the weekend occurred while the site was under construction and offered no data to stea...

Article | 21/07/2008 Google to buy Russian online ad firm

Google said Friday it will pay US$140 million for a Russian contextual advertising company as it seeks to expand its services to advertisers and Web-s...

Article | 21/07/2008 New worm transcodes MP3s to try to infect PCs

A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.

Article | 18/07/2008 Google tweaks Gmail to stop auto-adding contacts

Google is rolling out a change this week to Gmail that gives users more control over their contacts list.

Article | 17/07/2008 Microsoft updates servers with latest Search features

Microsoft has released three bundles of fixes and new features for its server products.

Article | 17/07/2008 Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.

Article | 16/07/2008 Researchers trace structure of cybercrime gangs

The chain of command of a cybercrime gang is not unlike the Mafia, an evolution that shows how online crime is becoming a broad, well-organized endeav...

Article | 15/07/2008 Symantec: Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks will intensify

An easy-to-use toolkit used to hack computers has now been updated to take advantage of an unpatched security vulnerability in Microsoft's software, w...

Article | 3/07/2008 Report: Yahoo-Google partnership under DOJ scrutiny

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, the Washingt...

Article | 2/07/2008 Google changes tack on pay-per-action offerings

Google is rolling out two new offerings that let advertisers more precisely target people who will likely be receptive to their products.

Article | 2/07/2008 Study: Unpatched Web browsers prevalent on the Internet

Only 59.1 percent of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from diligent hackers, acco...

Article | 1/07/2008 MySpace users struggle to overcome cybervandalism

One of the first social networking upstarts, MySpace, is facing continuing security problems that threaten to spoil many of the innovative features th...