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An IT executive from a Canadian marketing business stands accused of stealing a computer backup tape that holds the personal details of 3.2 million customers, which if sold on the lucrative black market could make as much as $10 million.

A band of home office officials are still pushing for the big brother style central database of emails, web browsing, phone data  and location tracking, even though the government said that they won’t consider reviewing the scheme until at least 2010 – and possibly not at all.
A spokeswoman for the Home Office has confirmed that [...]

Reports from security provider MessageLabs suggest that virus writers are highly likely to release increasingly sophisticated strains of malware over the course of next year in an effort to get back in to the game after some high-profile botnet shutdown operations in 2008.

An IT manager from California was sent to prison for 356 days for the crime of hacking in to his ex-employers computer system, and releasing the company’s mail server to the public.

A cyber-gang has stolen the details of over 500,000 financial accounts over the course of the past three years using a highly advance Trojan that remains undetectable to the majority of its victims.

Remarkably, even though reports of cyber-crime and identity theft are through the roof, people still use passwords like “god”, “abc123” or the classically bad, “password”. These people can be loosely defined as idiots.

A government watchdog agency has slapped the wrists of the US Department of Homeland Security for failing to adequately protect the nation’s critical computer networks, in a report that picks out the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s lack of efficiency.

YouTube, the user generated video site, has caved in to pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, so has laid down the law on videos that depict violence and terrorism. A statement on YouTube’s Community Guidelines page announced the changes:

Google’s new “Chrome” browser has only been out a couple of days, but its already facing up to a backlash from users who feel their privacy and data are under scrutiny from the search giant.

The company already got users backs up with the end user licence agreement, and now users are questioning the browsers [...]

Research into why people receive differing amounts of spam in their inboxes has found that if your email address begins with an A, M, S, R or P, you are likely to receive 40 percent more junk mail.

In contrast, email addresses that start with the letters Q, Z and Y, receive less than a [...]