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House Committee Postpones SOPA Debate to January

As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee postponed further debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act until January, when Congress comes back...

FTC Reimburses Fake Antivirus Scam Victims

In the "How Cool is This?" files, the Federal Trade Commission has decided to send reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people who have...

Vendors Release Carrier IQ Scanning Tools

Mobile device owners worried whether the Carrier IQ software is installed on their mobile devices now can use apps designed to scan and detect...

Why Security Concerns Should Not Deter Journey to Cloud

By David HunterRecent high-profile data breaches shine a spotlight on the issues of trust, risk and security in the cloud. Yet, amid all the...

Should I Change My Password? Yes!

With all the personal data that has been leaked via Website attacks and data breaches this year, Internet users may be wondering if their...

Tango Down: WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks has run out of money and shut its doors, according to a note on the whistleblower site.WikiLeaks blamed the situation on an "unlawful...

SEC Warns Employees of Potential Misuse of Brokerage Data

The Securities and Exchange Commission warned staffers their personal brokerage account information may have been compromised, according to Reuters.The contractor hired to operate the...

Hackers Target Bankers’ Personal Data as Part of “Occupy Wall Street”

The same group that went targeted information belonging to Goldman Sachs CEO and a New York police officer has struck again.Members of "CabinCr3w" posted...

RIM, Bank of America Outages Weren’t Part of a Hack

Nowadays, when a Website is unavailable, may people immediately assume it has been hacked. However, sometimes, it is just a software or hardware glitch.The...

German Government Spyware Capable of Snooping, Remote Updates

A software program used to intercept online communications is capable of doing much more, the German Government has admitted.The program, Quellen-TKU, was submitted anonymously...