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Wards didn't tell customers about breach
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25415152/
An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge — a hack of its customers' credit card numbers — but didn't inform the consumers, revealing how data breaches might be heavily undercounted even with new notification laws.
Thu, 26 Jun 08
Surveillance video grows despite lack of evidence
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25355673/
Despite little evidence that public surveillance cameras deter crime, police in many cities are trying to add thousands more cameras to their networks.
Fri, 20 Jun 08
One in three IT staff snoops on colleagues
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25263009/
One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details, personal e-mails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
Fri, 20 Jun 08
SF court to bosses: Stop reading worker e-mail!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25261865/
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has made it more difficult for employers to legally access e-mails and text messages sent by their workers on company accounts.
Fri, 20 Jun 08
Why global hackers are hard to catch
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25264230/
They're in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?
Thu, 12 Jun 08
Lawmakers say Chinese hacked computers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25096126/
Two longtime House members say computers in their Capitol Hill offices have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China.
Wed, 11 Jun 08
Internet companies to block child porn sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25077224/
Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation's five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.
Wed, 11 Jun 08
France to blacklist Web sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25080044/
The French state and Internet service providers have struck a deal to block sites carrying child pornography or content linked to terrorism or racial hatred, Interior Minister Michel Alliot-Marie announced Tuesday.
Thu, 5 Jun 08
Study secretly tracks cell phone users
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24969880/
Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the U.S. through their cell phone use in a study that raises privacy and ethical questions.
Thu, 5 Jun 08
Teens send nude photos via cell phones
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24970829/
Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones.
Thu, 5 Jun 08
Warning: Dangerous Web surfing ahead
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24966835/
When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal. Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc.