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Thu, 30 Oct 08
Video: Twitter a potential terror tool?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27409215#27409215


Oct. 27:  Ms. Information: Rachel Maddow reports on some stories that didn’t make the front page, including how a draft Army Intelligence report suggests that the online micro-blogging tool Twitter could become a tool for terrorists.  (MSNBC)Oct. 27:  Ms. Information: Rachel Maddow reports on some stories that didn’t make the front page, including how a draft Army Intelligence report suggests that the online micro-blogging tool Twitter could become a tool for terrorists. (MSNBC)

Wed, 29 Oct 08
Web sites embrace human rights guidelines
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27418918/
Leading Internet companies, long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China, are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so.

Fri, 24 Oct 08
Picture messaging as personal protection tool
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27338645/
"Don't try to hurt me — I've deposited a letter with my lawyer. If he doesn't hear from me within 24 hours, he will mail it to the police. It details all your murky dealings."

Thu, 23 Oct 08
Chinese angry over Microsoft anti-piracy tool
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27321572/
Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy genuine software.

Fri, 17 Oct 08
ISPs pressed to become child porn cops
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27198621/
Internet service providers are moving closer to becoming cops on the lookout for child pornography, able to monitor every e-mail and Web search for illegal images. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman and Bob Sullivan report.

Fri, 17 Oct 08
FBI sees rise in computer crime
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27216425/
Computer spying and theft of personal information have risen notably in the past year, costing tens of millions of dollars and threatening U.S. security, the FBI's cyber division head said on Wednesday.

Fri, 17 Oct 08
10 spammers you love to hate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27187990/
It seems the spam e-mail industry has more kings than a pinochle deck. But who is really the king of kings?

Wed, 15 Oct 08
FTC busts 'world's largest spam operation'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27181745/
Federal authorities in Chicago say they've shut down one of the largest spam e-mail operations in the world. The Federal Trade Commission says the group generated e-mails promoting sales of prescription drugs and "male enhancement" pills.

Wed, 15 Oct 08
Cell phones could become 'zombies'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27186309/
Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into "botnets" to pump out spam or attack other computers.

Fri, 10 Oct 08
FTC warns of increase in Internet scams
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27103548/
E-mail scams that "phish" for personal information may increase amid the current financial crisis, the Federal Trade Commission warned consumers Thursday.

Fri, 10 Oct 08
Tiny flash drives improve their security
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27104609/
The Yoggie GateKeeper Pico ($149),top, the IronKey ($149), center, and Take Anywhere's Pocket Safe ($59.95) bottom are flash drives that offer added security for the user.A new breed of flash drives are chock full of military-strength encryption and passwords and keypad combinations that must be entered before the data can be accessed.

Thu, 9 Oct 08
Man indicted in hacking of Palin's e-mail
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27083761/
A federal grand jury has indicted a man in connection with the hacking of the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Thu, 9 Oct 08
Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27090461/
Even sophisticated surfers could get taken in by a sneaky new attack in which criminals create fake YouTube pages — dead-on replicas of the real site — to push their malicious software and make it look like it's safe stuff coming from a trusted source.

Thu, 9 Oct 08
EU proposes more rights for Internet shoppers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27085452/
The European Commission wants to give Internet shoppers more rights and better protection, in an effort to boost Internet shopping across the continent and provide consumers with more competitive prices.

Wed, 8 Oct 08
Gmail 'Mail Goggles' stymie drunk e-mailing
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27071685/


The Mail Goggles feature requires you to solve a few easy math problems in short order before hitting "send." If your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you're sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that screed you just drafted.Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.

Tue, 7 Oct 08
Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27052474/
Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia.

Fri, 3 Oct 08
GPS 'spoofing' could threaten national security
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26992456/


A ship's bridge illuminated at night. A technique for sabotaging GPS systems, called spoofing, could cause havoc in the wrong hands, warn researchers. In spoofing, a spoofer creates a false GPS signal that passes as a real GPS signal, sending an incorrect time and location to a certain receiver. Computers have been hacked for decades. But now, scientists at Cornell University and Virginia Tech are now warning about the dangers of "spoofing," or hacking into the Global Positioning System (GPS) that controls everything from car navigation to national power grids.

Fri, 3 Oct 08
Chinese snoop on Skype, but are they alone?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26999495/
A Canadian researcher has discovered that a Chinese version of eBay Inc.'s Skype communications software snoops on text chats that contain certain keywords, including "democracy."

Fri, 3 Oct 08
Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26990313/
The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the last few years, according to data sleuths at Verizon Communications Inc.

Thu, 2 Oct 08
Poker pro suspected in online cheating scheme
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26963451/
Investigators looking into an apparent cheating scam at a leading online poker site have turned over one of their hole cards, identifying a well-known Las Vegas poker player and golf hustler as the “main person responsible for … multiple cheating incidents.”

Thu, 2 Oct 08
Victim uses remote logon to nab laptop thief
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26973295/
Jose Caceres said he used a remote access program to log on every day and watch his computer being used, and then tipped off police, leading to the arrest of a 34-year-old male suspect.

Wed, 1 Oct 08
Full encryption stops Amazon Web video leak
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26956223/
Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems Inc's encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said on Monday.

Wed, 1 Oct 08
Media, tech companies unite to fight piracy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26959480/
A group founded by several major media and technology companies plans to promote the Web as a place for consumers to get songs, television shows and movies without resorting to piracy.

 

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