MSNBC Security

Wed, 20 Jan 10
Fake Facebook pages set up for Haiti disaster
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/01/fake-fundraising-efforts-for-the-haiti-disaster-are-spreading-like-wildfire-on-facebook-dozens-of-fan-pages-have-been-set-up.html#posts
RED TAPE: Fake fundraising efforts for the Haiti disaster are spreading like wildfire on Facebook. Dozens of fan pages have been set up, urging users to join and promising a $1 donation for each member.

Wed, 20 Jan 10
Google scraps cell phone launch in China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34935750/ns/technology_and_science-security/


Google has delayed the debut of two mobile phones designed to connect with its Internet services in China, widening the void that might be opened if the company and Beijing can't resolve their rift over online censorship and security.

Wed, 20 Jan 10
Microsoft cuts IP address storage to 6 months
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34937428/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it would shorten the time it stores Internet users' addresses from Web search queries from 18 months to six months following a request from a European Union data privacy panel.

Wed, 20 Jan 10
What Internet? China region cut off 6 months
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34938977/ns/technology_and_science-security/
They arrive at this gritty desert crossroads weary from a 13-hour train ride but determined. The promised land lies just across the railway station plaza: a large, white sign that says "Easy Connection Internet Cafe."

Wed, 20 Jan 10
Texting resumes 6 months after Xinjiang riots
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34935757/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Text messaging services restarted with some restrictions Sunday for cell phone users in far western China, more than six months after deadly ethnic rioting prompted the government to shut them down.

Wed, 20 Jan 10
BlackBerry users get fake fundraising spam 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34923374/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/


Some BlackBerry users are getting well-meaning, but untrue, instant messages suggesting 35 cents will be donated to help Haiti when they forward the message to others.

Wed, 20 Jan 10
Foreign reporters' Gmail hacked in China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34923887/ns/technology_and_science-security/
There are new claims that China may be hacking into more Google e-mail accounts.

Wed, 20 Jan 10
Jewish newspaper attacked by hackers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34923889/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Turkish hackers attacked the Web site of Britain's flagship Jewish newspaper, replacing the main page with a Palestinian flag and anti-Semitic writings, the paper's editor said Monday.

Sun, 17 Jan 10
Germany warns against using Internet Explorer
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34899793/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Microsoft Corp. on Saturday rejected a German government warning against using Internet Explorer until a patch can be developed to fix a security flaw, saying the problem is not a threat to general users.

Sat, 16 Jan 10
Online vs. mobile giving: Which is better?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34881763/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
Give money to help Haiti by cell phone or via online? Some of it may depend on how much you want to give. The mobile giving campaign launched this week seeks smaller amounts — such as $5 and $10 per person. Larger donations are best made through other means.

Sat, 16 Jan 10
Network flaw causes scary Web error
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34885006/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information.

Sat, 16 Jan 10
U.S. to complain to China about Google hacking
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34878846/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The U.S. State Department says it will lodge a formal complaint with Chinese officials next week about the hacking attacks on Google's e-mail service in China.

Sat, 16 Jan 10
Iran warns opposition on cell phone, e-mail use
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34877671/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Iran's police chief on Friday warned opposition supporters not to use cell phones and e-mail messages to organize protest rallies against the government, saying those who do so will be prosecuted and punished.

Fri, 15 Jan 10
EU Web head backs Google threat to quit China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34865254/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The woman to become EU's top Internet official said Thursday that she backed Google Inc's threat to quit China over the government's net censorship.

Fri, 15 Jan 10
Attack on Google exploited browser flaw
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34868749/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Cyber attacks on the China operations of Google and other businesses were engineered by exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, according to security researcher McAfee Inc.

Fri, 15 Jan 10
China official's comments on Internet control
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34860637/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A senior Chinese official told companies to support the government's Internet controls on Thursday, suggesting scant room for compromise with Google after the company threatened to quit China over censorship and hacking.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Beware of bogus online 'help' for Haiti
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34845486/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The urge to help — and to give money — is powerful following a devastating event like Haiti's earthquake, and one of the easiest ways to do it is online. It's also one of the easiest ways to get scammed if you don't know who you're dealing with.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Google adds security to Gmail after hacking
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34850325/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Google is tightening the security of its free e-mail service to combat computer hackers like the ones that recently targeted it in China.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Cyberspying spotlighted in Google China clash
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34842857/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Cyber attacks disclosed by Google and Adobe that may lead Google to quit China highlight a sophisticated type of bespoke cyberspying that could be more widespread than previously thought.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Chinese Internet activists applaud Google
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34843242/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Google's announcement that it may quit China over censorship and hacking drew applause, warnings and bouquets from dissidents and Internet activists on Wednesday, with few seeing much chance of the wary government giving ground.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Yahoo backs Google's response to China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34844968/ns/business/
Yahoo supports rival Google's threatened departure from China because of computer attacks that pried into the e-mail accounts of human rights activists.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Facebook beefs up security with McAfee
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34842887/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Facebook is trying to beef up security with some outside help.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Busted: Facebook fugitive who taunted police
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34837971/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/


An escaped British convict whose online antics drew an international Internet fan base has been caught after nearly four months on the run, police said Wednesday.

Thu, 14 Jan 10
Privacy is dead on Facebook. Get over it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34825225/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/


Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently went on record speaking the same sentiments blathered by the big money data farmers that came before him; none of the cool kids care about privacy. Neither should you.

Wed, 13 Jan 10
Hackers paralyze China's top search engine
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34824147/ns/technology_and_science-security/


Hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army briefly hijacked the home page of China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, on Tuesday weeks after doing the same thing to Twitter.com.

Wed, 13 Jan 10
Google to end China censorship after breach
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34831106/ns/technology_and_science-security/


Google will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.

Sat, 9 Jan 10
FCC faces setback in ’Net neutrality push
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34766389/ns/technology_and_science-security/


The Federal Communications Commission ran into a potential setback Friday in its push to draft rules that would require Internet providers to give equal treatment to all data flowing over their networks.

Fri, 8 Jan 10
Mobile calls safe from hackers, says trade group
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34751127/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A wireless industry group said mobile phone conversations are safe from eavesdropping, even after a German security expert released the code for unscrambling calls made using most of the world's cell phones.

Thu, 7 Jan 10
Red Tape: High-tech terror defenses aren’t cure-alls
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/01/facial-recognition-software-trace-portal-machines-the-total-information-awareness-database-and-now-body-scanners-all-the.html
Gadget defenses have shown themselves to be costly, flawed and difficult to implement. Meanwhile, they take precious resources away from tried and true counterterrorism measures.

Wed, 6 Jan 10
2010 bug hits millions of German bank cards
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34706092/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Millions of German bank cards have been affected by a "millennium bug"-like problem because they contain software that can't process the number 2010, an industry group said Tuesday.

Tue, 5 Jan 10
China: 5,394 arrested in ’Net porn crackdown
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34687879/ns/technology_and_science-security/


Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.

Tue, 5 Jan 10
Space station to track ships from orbit
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34688266/ns/technology_and_science-science/


Two new receivers soon to be tested from the International Space Station could help fill holes in the current system used to keep tabs on ships traveling across the world's oceans.

Tue, 5 Jan 10
Top 10 security nightmares of the decade
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34644028/ns/technology_and_science/


Blame the Internet for the latest decade of security lessons. Without it, you probably wouldn't even recognize the terms phishing, cybercrime, data breach or botnet.