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Facebook, Twitter crooks just a click away

If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.

FSB: Steal your own identity

Todd Feinman spent more than a decade breaking into the computer systems of Fortune 100 companies. Not for his own nefarious purposes, though. The former director at PricewaterhouseCoopers was paid to test corporate security systems. He succeeded in breaching them 80% of the time.

Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away

If you're on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim.

Will your privacy be compromised online?

The 2010 Census is nearly under way, but don't expect an e-mail from the U.S. Census Bureau asking you personal questions in its head count of America.

U.S. government sets up online 'app store'

The Obama administration has unveiled a government "app store" designed to push the federal bureaucracy into the era of cloud computing.

Facebook makes privacy changes

Facebook has announced it is to overhaul its privacy settings to make it clearer for users to know who has access to their personal data.

Calling all spies: Has cell phone spy tech got your number?

When BlackBerry users in the United Arab Emirates received a text message from their service provider on July 8 instructing them to install an upgrade on their handsets, they had no idea the application also contained software that, according to BlackBerry's maker, would enable third parties to peek at private information on their phones.

Think you deleted your cookies? Think again

More than half of the Internet's top websites use a little known capability of Adobe's Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers found.

CNNMoney: Can digital health protect your privacy?

Digitizing health records. A good idea say most experts, but it will take a feat of policy, technology and education to ensure your records don't get into the wrong hands.

SI.com: Don Banks: Upshaw had proof Vincent released agents' confidential info

With the NFL Players Association having outside legal counsel investigate whether former union president Troy Vincent improperly released confidential information about agents to a longtime friend and business partner, Mark Mangum, sources tell SI.com that one revelation expected to come to light is that former NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw had collected numerous internal e-mails from Vincent allegedly proving that he disclosed the privileged information.

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