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Unauthorized Sale of Phone Records on the Rise

Reports of the unauthorized sale of personal telephone records may be sending chills up the spines of callers across the county, but the practice...

Globe Gaffe Delivers Subscriber Credit Card Data

The Boston Globe newspaper said on Feb. 1 that it accidentally released sensitive data on as many as 227,000 subscribers. Information on around 13,000...

EFF Sues AT&T for Role in NSA Eavesdropping

AT&T is being sued in federal court for allegedly violating the Constitutional rights of Americans by enabling the National Security Agency to spy on...

Vista: Anti-spyware, Yes. Anti-virus, No

Microsoft officials have been saying for quite some time that Windows Vista will ship with anti-spyware software built into the operating system. But for...

Microsoft Joins Blackworm D-Day Warning Chorus

Microsofts anti-malware engineering team has joined the chorus of calls for computer users to be on high alert for an e-mail worm that uses...

Verizon Wins Fight with Data Collectors

A federal court in New Jersey granted an injunction to Verizon Wireless in the companys latest case against third parties charged with obtaining and...

Cookie Holes Expose Browsers

Security researcher Michal Zalewski has identified an issue related to the manner in which most Web browsers process so-called cookies that he contends may...

Data Privacy Caught in Crossfire

Whose data is it anyhow? The personal technology industry has been roiling of late with the news that Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to...

E-Mail Worm Could Wreak Havoc

A high-powered group of security volunteers is raising an "urgent alert" for a potentially destructive e-mail worm crawling through in-boxes, warning that the worms...

Identity Theft Ranks High in FTC Complaints

Among the many ways Americans see themselves getting swindled these days, identity theft ranks first.Of nearly 700,000 grievances lodged with the Federal Trade Commission...