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Stop following me.
by
Adriene Hill
Aug 4, 2011
Wired is reporting that a new lawsuit filed in California alleges that tracking software from web analytics firm KISSmetrics violates privacy laws....
Proposed legislation would punish countries that don't help the US stop cyber attacks
by
Adriene Hill
Aug 3, 2011
Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), have introduced The International Cybercrime and Reporting Act, which would hold...
Biggest cyber-attack ever
by
Adriene Hill
Aug 3, 2011
Security company McAfee has just released a paper revealing a massive set of cyber-attacks, infiltrating 72 organizations. Reuters is calling it...
New data security bill introduced in the Senate
by
Steve Henn
Jul 29, 2011
I'm not sure how anyone in Congress has any time to do anything but try to figure out how to get a debt crisis deal done, but apparently, they do....
LulzSec Leader Arrested (or not)
by
Steve Henn
Jul 28, 2011
British Police say they've arrested a key leader of LulzSec. His code name: Topiary. He's 19 and he was living on the windswept Shetland Islands on...
Tracking Anonymous
by
Steve Henn
Jul 27, 2011
The FBI has been raiding alleged members of the hacking collective Anonymous in recent weeks. This morning, Wired's Threat Level blogs unearthed...
NSA & cell phone tracking
by
Steve Henn
Jul 27, 2011
This guy say you don't need to join a hacker collective before federal agents can follow your trail in cyber space....
For public good, not for profit.
Head of country's cyber agency resigns
by
Steve Henn
Jul 26, 2011
The Department of Defense doesn't want to talk about why Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. US- CERT...
The worst passwords ever
by
John Moe
Jul 19, 2011
On today's show, we talked about how Microsoft is banning certain obvious passwords from new Hotmail accounts....
Sony offers identity theft protection
by
John Moe
Jul 11, 2011
In a related story: your dog offers to guard that pork chop. Sony's PlayStation Network have until July 31st to sign up for AllClear ID, a program...