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Article | 26/03/2011 China Web censorship stirs scorn, support

Du Xiang Yu, a 20-year-old living in Beijing, has never heard of Facebook. He adds that he never visits any foreign websites, even though he uses the ...

Article | 26/03/2011 ID thief sentenced to more than 16 years in prison

An identity thief who used a people search website to confirm stolen Social Security numbers has been sentenced to 16 years and seven months in prison...

Article | 25/03/2011 Lots of "people" you interact with online are sockpuppets

"I hear his name bandied about a lot, but I don't know him. I don't know who Henson is. He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here, but ...

Article | 24/03/2011 Update Java and you may get annoying McAfee scanner too

Windows users who install the latest Java security patches may end up with a little more security than they bargained for, at least that's the risk th...

Article | 24/03/2011 Android tablets get first remote security and AV app

AVG has launched AVG Mobilation for Android which the company is promoting as the world's first security app specifically designed for Android tablets...

Article | 24/03/2011 Firm points finger at Iran for SSL certificate theft

Iran may have been involved in an attack that resulted in hackers' acquiring bogus digital certificates for some of the Web's biggest sites, including...

Article | 24/03/2011 Intel's McAfee unit to acquire Sentrigo

Intel's McAfee subsidiary on Wednesday said it would acquire Sentrigo, which provides database security and compliance products.

Article | 23/03/2011 Google funds tools to expose government attempts to censor, shut down the Internet

In the wake of Internet blackouts in Egypt and Libya, Google has announced it is awarding at least $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers working on t...

Article | 23/03/2011 Berlin court rules Street View doesn't invade privacy

Google won a civil lawsuit in Germany lodged by a woman who contended its roving camera cars that shoot photographs for Street View violated her priva...

Article | 22/03/2011 Student used spyware to steal passwords, change grades

A former high school senior from Orange County, California, has pleaded guilty to charges that he installed spyware on school computers in order to bo...

Article | 22/03/2011 WikiLeaks' founder takes on Indian Prime Minister

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange told an Indian TV channel that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was engaged in a deliberate attempt to misle...

Article | 22/03/2011 Adobe patches Flash zero-day bug in Reader

Adobe Monday patched a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader, making good on a promise last week to plug the hole.

Article | 22/03/2011 Man charged with hiring pump-and-dump spam botnet

A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a ...

Article | 22/03/2011 Man who stole Goldman Sachs code gets 8-year sentence

A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has received a stiff prison sentence for stealing source code used in the company's high-frequency trading ...

Article | 22/03/2011 Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against US surveillance

A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit, brought by civil liberties and other groups, challenging the legality of a controversial government law...

Article | 22/03/2011 Google fined 100K euros for Street View collection of Wi-Fi data

Google must pay a fine of €100,000 ($US142,000) for the unauthorized collection of information about the location of Wi-Fi hotspots in France by its S...

Article | 22/03/2011 Yahoo's offers cookie opt-out button ahead of new EU law

Yahoo has anticipated a new European Union directive by introducing a feature designed to ensure Web users' privacy through the use of an opt-out butt...

Article | 21/03/2011 Google: Gmail blocking designed by Chinese government

China is blocking Gmail in the country with methods that make it look as if the access problems lie with Google, said the search engine giant on Monda...

Article | 19/03/2011 Rustock Botnet: Dead, or just dazed?

The Rustock botnet--one of the most prolific sources of spam -- has gone silent. Microsoft worked with security vendors and the civil court system to ...

Article | 19/03/2011 Four steps to take if your business depends on RSA SecurID tokens

With the theft of sensitive data about RSA's SecurID technology, large businesses should reassess the risks to the assets the two-factor authenticatio...