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Wed, 31 Mar 10
China steps up Google service disruptions
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36098813/ns/technology_and_science-security/


A security guard (L) and an employee walk past Google's logo outside Google China headquarters building in Beijing March 24, 2010. technology. REUTERS/David GrayThe Chinese government appears to be be ramping up its conflict with search engine giant Google, according to reports. As of Tuesday, Internet users in China who attempted to conduct Google searches via both computers and mobile devices received error reports.

Wed, 31 Mar 10
Journalists in China say Yahoo accounts hacked
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36100831/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked Tuesday, the latest troubles in China's heavily censored Internet market.

Tue, 30 Mar 10
Senator pushes for electronic privacy laws
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36088027/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is pushing for new federal laws on electronic privacy as a school district back home struggles with a lawsuit over attempts to locate missing laptops by turning on webcams — something that could have enabled it to film students at home.

Tue, 30 Mar 10
Court papers identify JC Penney as hacking victim
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36088614/ns/technology_and_science-security/
JC Penney Co.  was one of the victims of notorious computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, according to unsealed documents made available on Monday by a federal judge in Boston.

Tue, 30 Mar 10
Ukrainian hacker liable in SEC insider trading case
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36090803/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A Ukrainian national who traded on insider information he obtained by hacking into a secure computer network was ordered by a U.S. judge to forfeit $580,000 in profits, interest and civil penalties, U.S. securities regulators said on Monday.

Tue, 30 Mar 10
U.S. questions Australian Internet filter plan
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36083094/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday.

Sat, 27 Mar 10
Data theft targets 3.3 million with student loans
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36060713/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota.

Sat, 27 Mar 10
Navigating China's web of censors
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36041417/ns/technology_and_science-security/


People use computers at a cybercafe in Wuhan, central China in January. There are an estimated 384 million Chinese Internet users, more than three times the figure in 2005.Google's standoff with Beijing reveals the complexity of Internet control in China—where an ever-shifting hodgepodge of restrictions limit what information Netizens can access, which Web tools they can us, and what ideas they can blog. By msnbc.com's Kari Huus.

Sat, 27 Mar 10
‘Smart’ meters have security holes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36055667/ns/technology_and_science-security/


Joshua Wright, a senior security analyst for InGuardians, poses for a portrait with his hacking tools in his office in East Providence, R.I. InGuardians, which was hired by three utility companies, found flaws in new "smart" meters being installed at homes and businesses across the U.S.Computer-security researchers say new "smart" meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways.

Sat, 27 Mar 10
What's the ‘big f-ing deal’ about swearing?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36053011/ns/technology_and_science-science/


Vice President Joe Biden introduces President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, before the president signed the health care reform bill. Biden would soon make a controversial comment to the president.When the Vice President dropped the f-bomb this week, he sparked a flurry of controversy, but researchers point out cussing has been around for centuries.

Fri, 26 Mar 10
French Twitter hacked Obama for the thrills
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36036347/ns/technology_and_science-security/
He's 24, unemployed and has no specialized computer skills. Using sheer wit and persistence, the Frenchman managed to infiltrate Twitter administrators' accounts and post confidential company documents online, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Fri, 26 Mar 10
Hacker gets 20 years in credit card thefts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36039784/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/


Albert GonzalezA computer hacker from Florida is sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping engineer one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in U.S. history.

Fri, 26 Mar 10
UK police ask Internet cafes to monitor users
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36033713/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Internet cafe users in the British capital may want to watch what they download.

Fri, 26 Mar 10
Racist e-mails wreak havoc for Australia police
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36035072/ns/technology_and_science-security/
About 100 Australian police are being investigated for circulating racist and pornographic e-mails via the internal police e-mail system, and one officer involved in the scandal has committed suicide, a top official said Thursday.

Thu, 25 Mar 10
Two U.S. Internet companies leave China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36021136/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites said Wednesday they had stopped registering new domain names in China because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from their customers.

Thu, 25 Mar 10
Frenchman hacks Obama's Twitter account
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36023724/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A French man has been arrested for hacking into the Twitter account of President Barack Obama, French police said on Wednesday.

Thu, 25 Mar 10
Inside a global cybercrime ring
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36017435/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world's most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.

Wed, 24 Mar 10
An explanation of Google's moves in China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36006220/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Now that Google is sending Web surfers in mainland China to a Hong Kong-based site, the company is free to display complete search results on any topic without the self-censorship Beijing had required. But that doesn't mean people in China are getting more information.

Wed, 24 Mar 10
Internet firm in China drops Google services
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36002013/ns/technology_and_science-security/
An Internet company run by one of Asia's richest men said Tuesday it has ended its affiliation with Google Inc. as the American search giant stopped censoring the Internet in violation of Chinese regulations.

Tue, 23 Mar 10
China accuses Google of violating promises
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35981427/ns/technology_and_science-security/


In this file photo, a Chinese flag flies over the company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. China accused Google of violating written promises when it redirected its search engine to Hong Kong. China reacted Tuesday to Google's decision to stop censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland, accusing the company of violating promises.

Tue, 23 Mar 10
Court ruling could encourage judges to ‘Google’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35987176/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A federal appeals court said it can be acceptable for a judge to conduct an Internet search to confirm an intuition about a matter of common knowledge.

Tue, 23 Mar 10
EU: Iran must stop jamming ’Net, broadcasts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35986116/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Iran must stop jamming satellite broadcasting and censoring the Internet, the European Union said Monday, but the bloc has stopped short of threatening any action if Tehran doesn't agree to it.

Mon, 22 Mar 10
Top 5 Web scams
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/03/most-people-think-theyll-never-fall-for-a-scam-in-fact-that-frame-of-mind-is-precisely-what-con-artists-look-for-those-who.html


Most people think they'll never fall for a scam. In fact, that mindset is precisely what con artists look for. And many of the scams you hear about are sensational, which convinces consumers to let their guards down even more. Most people think they'll never fall for a scam. In fact, that mindset is precisely what con artists look for. And many of the scams you hear about are sensational, which convinces consumers to let their guards down even more.

Fri, 19 Mar 10
For cyberwarriors, murky terrain
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35942473/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post/
Pentagon's dismantling of CIA-Saudi Web site illustrates need for clearer policies: When is a cyberattack outside the theater of war allowed? Should Congress be informed?

Fri, 19 Mar 10
UK: NATO must do more on cyber security
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35929448/ns/technology_and_science-security/
NATO must do more to coordinate the international community's response to the threat of cyber attacks, members of Britain's House of Lords said Thursday.

Thu, 18 Mar 10
Man accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35919648/ns/technology_and_science-security/
A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.

Thu, 18 Mar 10
Password-stealing virus targets Facebook users
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35920982/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information.

Wed, 17 Mar 10
File-sharing software reveals user's private info
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35893007/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Thousands of Americans may unwittingly be sharing personal medical and financial information stored on their home computers when they use file-sharing software, according to a new study.

Wed, 17 Mar 10
Google appears to drop censorship in China
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35886780/ns/technology_and_science-security/


An unidentified Chinese man, calling for an end to the violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Once censored, the picture could be seen over the Internet in China Tuesday.Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.

Wed, 17 Mar 10
Your new  Facebook ‘friend’ may be the FBI
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35890739/ns/technology_and_science-security/
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information.

Wed, 17 Mar 10
Schools accused in Google hacking ask 'why us?'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35891491/ns/technology_and_science-security/
With Google expected to decide soon whether to close its Chinese search engine, students at one of the schools cited by some reports for being behind hacking attacks on the Internet giant are decidedly ambivalent.

Wed, 17 Mar 10
Red Tape: Cutting cable and phone bills
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/03/save-300-in-an-hour-heres-how.html#posts
It took Mary Schreiber about an hour, and just a little moxie, to save $300. You can do it too.

Sat, 13 Mar 10
Red Tape: Toyota woes raise car-tech woes
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/03/toyota-woes-raise-ghost-in-the-machine-fears.html#posts


We may never know why runaway Toyotas suddenly seem to be everywhere. The scariest possibility, however, is that faulty computers are driving some victims to their deaths with frightening randomness.We may never know why runaway Toyotas suddenly seem to be everywhere. The scariest possibility, however, is that faulty computers are driving some victims to their deaths with frightening randomness.

Sat, 13 Mar 10
Feds' e-mail botch earns a raspberry
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35844518/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/
As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved.

Sat, 13 Mar 10
Internet fraud losses hit $560 million in 2009
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35841312/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The cost of Internet fraud doubled in 2009 to about $560 million, the FBI said Friday. The most common type of frauds reported were scams from people falsely claiming to be from the FBI.

Sat, 13 Mar 10
Privacy issues nix Netflix movie-picking contest
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35841301/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Netflix has canceled a sequel to a $1 million contest to improve its movie recommendations.

Fri, 12 Mar 10
Red Tape: Poodle, Glenn Beck at center of Facebook fight
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/03/poodle-in-tin-hat-at-center-of-facebook-rights-fight.html


You don't hear the words "poodle," "tinfoil hat," and First Amendment in the same sentence often, but they are indeed linked in a classic Facebook melodrama.You don't hear the words "poodle," "tinfoil hat," and First Amendment in the same sentence often, but they are indeed linked in a classic Facebook melodrama.

Fri, 12 Mar 10
UK pressures Facebook to install ‘panic button’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35816198/ns/technology_and_science-security/
British officials say they're pressuring Facebook to make a "panic button" available on its Web pages following the death of a teenager at the hands of a man she met on the popular social networking site.

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Officials: Ex-TSA worker tried to sabotage computers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35803009/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers and by attempting to introduce a virus into the computer system, according to news sources.

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Google chief sees outcome 'soon' in China row
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35804055/ns/technology_and_science-security/


Google said in January that it had detected a cyber attack originating from China, and threatened to pull out of the country. Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Newsweek: Inside the rush to recruit elite hackers
http://www.newsweek.com/id/234678
By one estimate the United States currently has about 1,000 elite cyber-security experts. It needs 20,000. Companies and government agencies are ramping up their efforts to find and educate a new generation of cyber whiz kids, by sponsoring national competitions akin to "American Idol ."

Thu, 11 Mar 10
Newsweek: The biggest cyber-breaches of all time
http://photo.newsweek.com/2010/some-of-the-biggest-cyber-breaches-of-all-time/intro.html
From the mildly malicious to the truly malevolent, here's a look back at major breaches of cyber-security that have already put our money and welfare at risk.

Wed, 10 Mar 10
Malware turns your cell phone against you
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35778945/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/


A rootkit is different — and more difficult to detect — than other malicious software like viruses.Malicious software for cell phones could pose a greater risk for consumer's personal and financial well-being than computer viruses, say scientists from Rutgers University.

Wed, 10 Mar 10
Red Tape: Lifelock settles with FTC over 'deceptive' ads
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/03/lifelock-settles-deceptive-advertising-case-with-ftc-ags.html
LifeLock spent millions spreading its CEO’s Social Security Number all across America. Now the firm will spend $12 million settling claims that it engaged in deceptive advertising and failed to protect customers' personal information.

Tue, 9 Mar 10
Online abuse puts heat on Google, Facebook
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35768719/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals.

Sat, 6 Mar 10
School tech workers on leave amid webcam probe
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35729360/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Two information-technology workers at a suburban Philadelphia school district that secretly activated webcams on students' school-issued laptops are on paid leave amid an FBI wiretap investigation.

Fri, 5 Mar 10
NATO chief calls attention to cyber threats
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35709046/ns/technology_and_science-security/
NATO is facing new threats in cyberspace that cannot be met by lining up soldiers and tanks, the alliance's secretary-general said Thursday in an apparent reference to terror groups and criminal networks.

Thu, 4 Mar 10
Spain: mastermind of 'botnet' scam a mystery
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35690751/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Spanish authorities who dismantled a network of up to 12.7 million virus-infected, data-stealing computers said Wednesday the mastermind of the scam remains a mystery, even though three alleged ringleaders have been arrested.

Thu, 4 Mar 10
Chatroulette: Still not safe for kids
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35687530/ns/technology_and_science-security/
The teen creator of Chatroulette, a video chat site that recently has taken the Internet by storm, has implemented a new safety feature designed to shield youngsters from other users' inappropriate behaviors. But experts worry the precautions are not enough.

Wed, 3 Mar 10
Spain busts hackers for infecting 13 million PCs
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35677010/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Spanish police have shut down a ring of computer hackers who infected more than 13 million PCs with a virus that stole credit card numbers and other valuable data in what may be the biggest cyber raid to date.

Wed, 3 Mar 10
German court overturns phone, e-mail data law
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35672314/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Germany's highest court on Tuesday overturned a law that let anti-terror authorities retain data on telephone calls and e-mails, saying it posed a "grave intrusion" to personal privacy rights and must be revised.

Tue, 2 Mar 10
4 charged with hacking into concert ticket sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35652646/ns/technology_and_science-security/
Four California men were charged on Monday with using sophisticated computer programs to fraudulently obtain more than a million tickets to concerts and sporting events and reselling them for a profit estimated at $29 million.

 

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