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  • Opposition to ACTA swells in Europe

    A British member of the European Parliament has been given the job of evaluating the controversial ACTA agreement as more European countries shy away from the intellectual-property treaty.

  • Symantec verifies stolen source code posted by Anonymous is "legitimate"

    Symantec is in an <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/anonymity-bites-anonymous-attempt-extort-symantec">ongoing fight</a> against hackers in the group Anonymous that last January attempted to extort a payment of around $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not publicly posting stolen Symantec source code they had stolen for various older Symantec security products dating to 2006.

  • Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code

    Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.

  • FTC warns background screening mobile apps may be unlawful

    The Federal Trade Commission this week said it sent letters to six unidentified <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-mobile-webstats-255804.html">mobile</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> makers warning them that their <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-supreme-court-says-nasa-background-securit">background screening apps</a> may be violating federal statutes.

  • Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report

    Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks.

  • Data breach? Blame your third party's remote access systems

    An in-depth study of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/011712-zappos-data-breach-254971.html">data-breach</a> problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> or VPN for systems maintenance.

  • Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere

    Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.

  • Web giants remove content on India's order

    Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy.

  • Small business lags on computer security

    Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study shows.

  • Copyright lawsuit targets owners of non-secure wireless networks

    A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.

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