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Social networkers using sites like Facebook or Twitter may be leaving themselves open to burglery due to the personal information so many openly share, a report from insurance company Legal & General warns
Notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez agrees to plead guilty to having a role in the theft of data from millions of credit and debit cards
The Home Office has said it is working with mobile and banking experts to minimise the emergence of new types of crime associated with so-called contactless payments
The social network also promises to include the reasons for collecting date of birth information as well as information on how its advertising programs work
A cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting Twitter security is still open despite the microblogging service's attempt at a fix, a software developer says
Mininova, an alternative to BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay, loses a key legal battle as a Dutch court rules that the Mininova site will face fines if it does not take action to remove links pointing to copyrighted material fro ...
The UK government has taken Internet copyright-protection out of Ofcom's hands, and is rushing through measures that could cut off everyone at an address
China is the likely source - but also a victim of the Trojan campaign which installs malware on visitors PCs
Windows 7 is faster and easier than Windows Vista, has some good user interface tweaks - and it has crazy desktop backgrounds. Nicholas Kolakowski lists his ten top Windows 7 improvements
Microsoft may get criticised for security issues, but IE8 just came top in a security study, beating Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Larry Walsh asks - is it time to reassess your choice of browser?
An apparent bug in Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 software allows users to find e-mails even after they have been deleted from the user's in-box and trash folders
Federal authorities are investigating a report from the Radisson hotel chain that someone illegally accessed its computer systems
While testing Windows 7 for eWEEK, Andrew Garcia found something nasty: in certain circumstances, Windows 7 provides anyone with an administrator account that has no password
The RTM version of Windows 7 has plenty of improvements, according to our long review. But Andrew Garcia has concerns over its security implementation
The cyber-attacks against Georgia launched by Russian hackers in 2008 demonstrate the need for international cooperation for security, according to a report by the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit
Some users were surprised to discover that the Palm Pre collects information about their mobile phone use and their whereabouts. Should Palm have been more clear?
Growing cyber-threats results in call for ideas and expertise to help security forces keep pace
Palm issues a statement in the wake of complaints stemming from the Pre smartphone's habit of sending users' data back to the company
The UK now has its own anti-patent and pro-file-sharing party which has its sights set on Parliamentary seats
Slightly reduced sentence for autism sufferer could similarly benefit British hacker
Apple issues an update to fix a bug affecting Mac OS X, including server editions. The patch comes shortly after Apple pushed out 18 fixes to users.
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated the ability to run more than 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines, an effort they say will ultimately help researchers analysing massive botnets
Authentec, like competitor Upek, is thinking of new ways to revive the authentication market
The Panasonic Toughbook 19, Toughbook 30 and Toughbook U1 mobile computers now meet more demanding military specifications for drops, vibration and use in all types of miserable weather, Panasonic says
Twitter experiences another distributed-denial-of-service attack, knocking out the microblogging service for a time
USAA, a private bank and insurer in the US, is updating its Apple iPhone app so account holders can simply photograph both sides of a cheques and then deposit it straight to an account.
Increasing reliance on IT systems combined with concern about their effectiveness could force governments to more tightly regulate the sector say analysts
Military authorities have outlined how service personnel should use social networks while the US appears to have taken a stricter approach
The fallout from the DDOS attack that hit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other Web 2.0 sites continued even after the attack had officially ended
Is it finally time for the company to admit that its operating system is as susceptible to security issues as Windows? Apple would be doing a good service to Mac users if it started advising its customers to pay closer attention to sec ...