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Article | 6/12/2010 WikiLeaks: China pressured Google on Internet censorship
Google's struggles to operate its search engine in China worsened after a high-ranking Chinese official Googled himself only to find "results critical...
Article | 2/12/2010 Free Software Foundation's software repository hacked
The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week.
Article | 30/11/2010 China blocks access to WikiLeaks
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks' release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it...
Article | 8/11/2010 Zscaler develops free tool to detect Firesheep snooping
A security company has developed a free Firefox add-on that warns when someone on the same network is using Firesheep, a tool that has raised alarm ov...
Article | 29/10/2010 IT worker gets prison after stealing data for online surveys
A former IT staffer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing sensitive information belonging to his co-workers and using the data...
Article | 27/10/2010 Cloud services raise security, privacy concerns, experts say
A move toward more and more services in the cloud is inevitable, but vendors still need to focus on security, and the U.S. government needs to rewrite...
Article | 21/09/2010 Survey finds low use of Microsoft encryption technology
Microsoft's full-disk encryption feature is not being widely used, even where it is part of the Windows operating system, according to a new survey re...
Article | 16/09/2010 Are colleges and universities at greater risk of data breaches?
A database security vendor says colleges and universities need to do more to secure their databases against break-ins.
Article | 3/08/2010 AVG uncovers new data-stealing Mumba botnet
Researchers at AVG have uncovered a botnet that has been harvesting personal information and uses the latest version of the Zeus code, underscoring th...
Article | 23/07/2010 Researcher finds Safari reveals personal information
A feature in Apple's Safari browser designed to make it easier to fill out forms could by abused by hackers to harvest personal information, according...
Article | 7/07/2010 Database admin sentenced for hacking employer's network
A former senior database administrator at a Houston electricity provider was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison for hacking into his former emplo...
Article | 30/06/2010 New York hospital loses data on 130,000 via FedEx
New York's Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs fu...
Article | 25/06/2010 Twitter settles FTC privacy complaint
Social-networking giant Twitter has agreed to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that the company deceived users and p...
Article | 29/05/2010 Information Commissioner: Over 1,000 data breaches reported
The number of data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reached 1,007 as of today.
Article | 25/05/2010 Data breaches not among top concerns for tech firms
Data security and breach prevention ranks low as a risk factor for most big technical companies, according to new research that identifies the most wi...