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