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A Congressional hearing on Tuesday investigating inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer networks unexpectedly put a spotlight on LimeWire Chairman Mark Gorton over the government and personal information that can be acquired over P2P networks without users' knowledge. Gorton's company makes the ...
Yahoo became the latest major Internet search provider to alter its user privacy policy Monday. Under the new plan, the company said, it will anonymize search histories after only 13 months, five months earlier than its search competitors at Google, Microsoft and Ask.com. "One of the core tenets of ...
Five million is a lot of anything. That's why the folks at Boston-based software maker IObit caught my eye recently when they announced they had just cracked the cinco millones mark in downloads for their free Windows maintenance program Advanced WindowsCare Personal. The application, its most recen...
Microsoft announced Sunday a new set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. The principles delineate newly enhanced steps the company will implement to protect the privacy of Windows Live users. Chief among the revamped privacy directives is...
First Jeeves got the old heave-ho; now Ask.com is ready to give user data the boot as well. In an apparent effort to one-up its much larger competitors in the field of user privacy, Ask.com unveiled its new AskEraser, a utility that the company said "will offer its searchers unmatched control over t...
Other than perhaps the medical and legal industries, no field relies on jargon more than computer technology. Take, for instance, the use of words borrowed from other lexicons -- terms such as "virus, "Trojan," "intrusion prevention system," "spyware," and "attack vector." You might well hear these...
An offer made earlier this month to pay whistle blowers $1 million for reporting companies using unlicensed software has met little or no public outcry, unlike lawsuits initiated by the music industry against illegal music downloaders. The Business Software Alliance, a global organization representi...
Google's decreased the length of time and amount of information the company holds on users' preferences and searches Monday with the announcement that it will shorten the lifespan of the small parcels of information it stores on users' computers, known as "cookies." The lifespan of Google's cookies ...
There's no doubt that terrorist organizations are making full use of the Web today to recruit, train, mobilize, publicize and raise funds, but finding and ultimately prosecuting them is no simple matter. With fleeting URLs and anonymous communications, online terrorist activities are an ever-shiftin...
Dozens of documents containing classified information that could affect the safety of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been posted on unprotected servers by military agencies and related companies. Documents were found that included details on air base fuel infrastructures, aerial surveys of...
Cisco Systems, EMC and Microsoft have formed an alliance to facilitate the protection and sharing of sensitive government information. The Secure Information Sharing Architecture Alliance, which also includes Liquid Machines, Swan Island Networks and Titus Labs, aims to develop IT architectures that...
Drivers have become accustomed to security cameras that catch a license plate number when someone violates a traffic law at toll booths and even stoplights. However, the lowly traffic camera is sparking a whole new debate in its role as part of the homeland security initiative that the New York Poli...
Imagery on Google Earth has revealed a new Chinese submarine to the public eye for the first time, according to a strategic security blogger with the Federation of American Scientists. "A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine," Hans Krist...
There's no denying that the Internet has changed the world for both good and bad, but few elements of its dark side inspire more fear than its use by terrorists. Observers around the world were horrified when a video of the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl was disseminated on the W...
The notorious Norwegian hacker, Jon Lech Johansen -- better known as "DVD Jon" for releasing code that broke DVD copy protection in the late 1990s -- has drawn first blood with the iPhone. Johansen has posted a workaround on the Internet that allows iPhone owners to use their devices in a limited fa...
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