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Who's Most Gullible Online And Why?

redtape.msnbc.msn.com | Posted 01.16.2012 | Fifty

Think grandma and grandpa are the most likely to fall for Internet scams? Think again, suggests a study on gullibility released earlier this month. ...

Movie Flops Are Driving Internet-Killing Bills in Congress

Art Brodsky | Posted 01.12.2012 | Technology

Art Brodsky

If the movie biz wants to continue a destructive campaign of some sort, it should start by looking in the mirror, and then at the movie theaters and then at the other activities that also compete for the time, attention and money of moviegoers.

A Biometric Tower of Babel

Shelly Yachimovich | Posted 01.23.2012 | Technology

Shelly Yachimovich

The unrestricted flow of information over the Internet and social networks provides an opportunity to one of mankind's most glorious times. If we don't protect the public, this could easily become a mean of chaos, repression and dominance.

Yahoo Wins Judgment Worth Hundreds Of Millions In Alleged Lottery Scam

AP | Posted 12.08.2011 | Business

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo has won a $610 million court judgment in a scam that tried to dupe people into believing they had won prizes in a lottery the I...

Avoiding the Cyber Crime Holiday

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 01.30.2012 | Business

Hemanshu Nigam

This year 40% of consumers will have their information misused. Given the just as staggering figures for online crimes against businesses, what are companies supposed to do?

Hollywood and the Internet: Time for the Sequel

Susan Landau | Posted 01.28.2012 | Technology

Susan Landau

With cyber security a national priority, Hollywood would like to make it harder to determine whether a website is legitimate. Yes, you read those words correctly; Hollywood is lobbying for a bill that would derail current efforts to secure the network.

Will U.S. Harm Its Economy, Security With Myopic IP Bills?

Edward J. Black | Posted 01.01.2012 | Politics

Edward J. Black

Author's Note: While this is not an actual intercepted diplomatic cable, I can imagine similar sentiments have been communicated. This legislation is...

The Amazing Race: The Irony of Halloween

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 01.02.2012 | Entertainment

Hemanshu Nigam

I decided to watch the most recent episode of The Amazing Race after a night of walking the neighborhood streets with my six-year-old in search of the...

It's Time to Get Smart About Internet Security

Belinda Parmar | Posted 12.10.2011 | Technology

Belinda Parmar

Anyone in possession of my phone has the potential to access to my contacts, social networking accounts, home and work information and credit card details. It's like having your purse and your laptop stolen simultaneously. (As well as your cell phone. Obviously.)

Don't Remind Me Later

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 11.27.2011 | Technology

Hemanshu Nigam

Hackers are literally creating and launching new viruses every day. That means that these invaluable updates are needed frequently.

Data Breach: Anonymous Hacks U.S. Law Enforcement Sites

AP | By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 10.06.2011 | Crime

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a d...

Nightmare Renters From Airbnb

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 10.02.2011 | Technology

Hemanshu Nigam

Until recently, Airbnb was not tossed around in the average news cycle. However, since a story recently broke about malicious use of rented property and Airbnb's apparent woeful management of the crisis, the name is everywhere... and not in a good way.

Bianca Bosker

Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away'

HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 09.26.2011 | Technology

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director, has a fix for cyberbullying: stop people from doing anything online without their names attached. ...

Taking a Moment to Pause With Phone Hacking Scandal

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 09.25.2011 | Technology

Hemanshu Nigam

For companies that can be broken if their security breaks, headlines like "Phone Hacking Scandal" should garner special attention. Herein lies an opportunity for cell carriers to pause and consider what types of security mechanisms are in place.

Police Respond To Hostage Call, Find Only Cat

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 09.24.2011 | Weird News

NEWARK, N.J. — Authorities on Monday sought a man responsible for calling in a fake hostage report that targeted a well-known Internet security ...

China-Based Spies Said To Be Behind IMF Hacking

Bloomberg | Michael Riley and Sandrine Rastello | Posted 09.21.2011 | Technology

Investigators probing the recent ransacking of International Monetary Fund computers have concluded the attack was carried out by cyber spies connecte...

Pentagon Says Foreign Hackers Stole 24,000 Military Files In March

The Huffington Post | Gerry Smith | Posted 09.13.2011 | Technology

Foreign hackers infiltrated the network of a defense contractor in March, stealing 24,000 military files in a single intrusion, Deputy Defense Secreta...

Porn Infiltrates Microsoft Anti-Scam Help Site

MSNBC | Matt Liebowitz | Posted 09.10.2011 | Technology

Microsoft disabled the search function on its Safety and Security Center this past weekend after scammers hijacked it to redirect queries to porn site...

Alert: Camp Counselor Enters Digital Age

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 08.23.2011 | Technology

Hemanshu Nigam

Grooming is a seemingly innocuous process by which an online predator -- in this case, the counselor -- finds an "in" with the child

Lucky in Love Meets Cautious Online

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 08.22.2011 | Technology

Hemanshu Nigam

It's comforting to think that everyone on dating sites is just as earnest as you are: looking for love and hoping to find a soul mate. Sadly, even the online dating world has scammers.

Open Letter to G8: What Happens When the Internet Breaks?

Juliette Powell | Posted 07.31.2011 | Technology

Juliette Powell

How vulnerable is the internet to such a break-down? It's already gone down twice.

How Much Would You Pay for a Fake Girlfriend?

Robert Siciliano | Posted 07.19.2011 | Technology

Robert Siciliano

More than 40 million people subscribe to online dating services, and millions of those subscribers develop intimate, albeit virtual relationships with anonymous strangers. It's not as difficult as you might imagine to get swindled out of your money this way.

White House Unveils National Cyber Security Plan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 07.12.2011 | Technology

WASHINGTON — Companies that run critical U.S. industries such as power plants would get government incentives to make sure their systems are sec...

Saki Knafo

Sony PlayStation Network Hack Just The Beginning Of Giant Data Thefts: Experts

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 07.06.2011 | Technology

NEW YORK -- Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony, apologized to customers Thursday for the "inconvenience and concern" caused by an attack on Sony's compu...

Getting Communications Security Right

Susan Landau | Posted 06.19.2011 | Technology

Susan Landau

The calculation is that on balance, the U.S. is better off with the deployment of strong cryptography than not. Each of these steps makes it easier for civilians to communicate securely.