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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 $1 million to Georgia Tech researchers working on t...
Article | 23/03/2011 Berlin court rules Street View doesn't invade privacy
Google won a civil lawsuit in Germany lodged by a woman who contended its roving camera cars that shoot photographs for Street View violated her priva...
Article | 22/03/2011 WikiLeaks' founder takes on Indian Prime Minister
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange told an Indian TV channel that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was engaged in a deliberate attempt to misle...
Article | 22/03/2011 Student used spyware to steal passwords, change grades
A former high school senior from Orange County, California, has pleaded guilty to charges that he installed spyware on school computers in order to bo...
Article | 22/03/2011 Adobe patches Flash zero-day bug in Reader
Adobe Monday patched a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader, making good on a promise last week to plug the hole.
Article | 22/03/2011 Man charged with hiring pump-and-dump spam botnet
A Texas man was charged Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice with helping to inflate the prices of penny stock companies by promoting them with a ...
Article | 22/03/2011 Man who stole Goldman Sachs code gets 8-year sentence
A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has received a stiff prison sentence for stealing source code used in the company's high-frequency trading ...
Article | 22/03/2011 Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against US surveillance
A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit, brought by civil liberties and other groups, challenging the legality of a controversial government law...
Article | 22/03/2011 Google fined 100K euros for Street View collection of Wi-Fi data
Google must pay a fine of €100,000 ($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...
Article | 19/03/2011 Microsoft urges Office users to block Flash Player attacks
Microsoft yesterday urged users of older Office suites to install and run a complicated tool to protect themselves against ongoing attacks exploiting ...
Article | 19/03/2011 Twitter scam betrays users' lack of savvy
Security firm Sophos is warning that a new scam is spreading virally on Twitter, and that a significant number of people have already fallen for it.
Article | 19/03/2011 Can your browser really stop sites from tracking you?
Something like this has happened to all of us lately: You shop for a watch for a friend's birthday and for a week afterwards every site you visit feat...
Article | 19/03/2011 Caution urged in wake of RSA security breach
The relatively scant information released by EMC's RSA security group on Thursday in connection with the theft of SecurID authentication technology co...
Article | 19/03/2011 After RSA breach, are SecurID tokens in jeopardy?
The intrusion by hackers of security giant RSA, a unit of EMC, has left customers and analysts wondering if it is still safe to use millions of the on...
Article | 18/03/2011 RSA warns SecurID customers after company is hacked
EMC's RSA Security division says the security of the company's two-factor SecurID tokens could be at risk following a sophisticated cyber-attack on th...
Article | 18/03/2011 Security will rescue cloud computing
Whenever the topic of security is mentioned in the context of cloud computing, it is usually discussed as the "big barrier" to adoption. The perceived...

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