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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.

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.

Fri, 12 Mar 10
UK pressures Facebook to install â€˜panic buttonâ€™
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 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.