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Fri, 29 Feb 08
Prolific spammer's felony conviction upheld
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23411441/
A divided Virginia Supreme Court affirmed the nation's first felony conviction for illegal spamming on Friday, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming law does not violate free-speech rights.

Fri, 29 Feb 08
Customer notification starts in TJX hack
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415071/
Notices are going out to millions of customers who may have had credit card information compromised in a data breach at stores such as T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.

Fri, 29 Feb 08
Teen charged in cyber crime network
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23400782/
A New Zealand teenager allegedly at the center of an international cyber crime network appeared Friday in court where he was charged with computer hacking crimes.

Thu, 28 Feb 08
Harvard scholars head MySpace task force
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23391412/
Leading Internet scholars at Harvard Law School will head a task force exploring the safety of users at MySpace and other popular online hangouts amid growing fears that youngsters have become targets of sexual predators.

Thu, 28 Feb 08
Campus text alert systems slow to catch on
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23392072/
The massacre at Virginia Tech last year sent colleges nationwide scrambling to improve how they get alerts to students during crises on campus. One solution: Text messages sent to cell phones.

Thu, 28 Feb 08
Google releases health service details
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23391425/
Google Inc. will not use advertising to support its new Internet health service, CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday in the search company's first detailed public comments about a venture raising concerns among privacy advocates.

Wed, 27 Feb 08
Use of Google for data triggers fears
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23377850/
It's called "Google hacking" â€” a slick data-mining technique used by the Internet's cops and crooks alike to unearth sensitive material mistakenly posted to public Web sites.

Wed, 27 Feb 08
Wikileaks case due back in court
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23378345/
An effort at damage control has snowballed into a public relations disaster for a Swiss bank seeking to crack down on a renegade Web site for posting classified information about some of its wealthy clients.

Wed, 27 Feb 08
German court shoots down PC surveillance
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23369077/
Government surveillance of personal computers violates the individual right to privacy, Germany's highest court found Wednesday, in a ruling that German investigators say will restrict their ability to pursue terrorists.

Fri, 22 Feb 08
Blast of cold air can open computer to hackers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23299150/
Want to break into a computer's encrypted hard drive? Just blast the machine's memory chip with a burst of cold air.

Fri, 22 Feb 08
Government agencies lacking ID protections
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23293565/
Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in which veterans' personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses, investigators have found.

Thu, 21 Feb 08
Hackers recruit for local language skill
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23273869/
Wanted: computer virus writers. Must be fluent in Mandarin. Or Russian. Or Portuguese. These hacker help wanted ads are appearing on underground Internet channels as malicious code designers increasingly want programmers with foreign-language skills to help launch country-specific attacks, security vendor McAfee Inc. said in a report Thursday.

Wed, 20 Feb 08
Experian sues LifeLock, alleges fraud
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/02/experian-sues-.html
In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Experian contends that LifeLock's advertising is misleading and that the firm is breaking federal law in the way it goes about protecting consumers.

Mon, 18 Feb 08
Study rejects Internet sex predator stereotype
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23226497/
The typical online sexual predator is not someone posing as a teen to lure unsuspecting victims into face-to-face meetings that result in violent rapes, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Fri, 15 Feb 08
Moroccan held for impersonating prince online
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23188325/
A Moroccan computer engineer appeared in court on Friday charged with setting up a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed's brother.

Wed, 13 Feb 08
Red Tape: Beware of unexpected e-Valentines
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/02/post.html
The FBI is warning Internet users about electronic Valentines that are booby-trapped with a computer virus.

Wed, 13 Feb 08
Use of rogue DNS servers on rise
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23152055/
They're called "servers that lie." Mendacious machines controlled by hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to fraudulent Web sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks, according to a paper published this week by researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Google Inc.

Tue, 12 Feb 08
NYC prosecutors back online sex predator ban
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23131388/
New York City prosecutors on Tuesday endorsed the United States' first proposed law to ban registered sex offenders from social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, officials

Tue, 12 Feb 08
Comcast defends Internet-filtering practices
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23136119/
Comcast Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission in formal comments Tuesday that hampering some file-sharing by its subscribers was a justifiable way to keep Web traffic flowing for everyone.

Mon, 11 Feb 08
Background checks split online dating industry
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23117392/

The contentious issue of the moment in the high-stakes online dating industry â€” pitting one of the three biggest companies, True.com, against its major rivals â€” is whether online dating services can enhance their clients' safety by conducting criminal background screenings of would-be daters.

Fri, 8 Feb 08
Microsoft helps nab $900 million piracy ring
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23072746/
In 2001, U.S. Customs officers seized a shipping container in Los Angeles filled with $100 million in fake software, including 31,000 copies of the Windows operating system. From there, Microsoft pushed the investigation through 22 countries.

Thu, 7 Feb 08
Electronic searches prompt protests
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23037049/
The seizure of electronics at U.S. borders has prompted protests from travelers who say they now weigh the risk of traveling with sensitive or personal information on their laptops, cameras or cellphones.