Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Set Click-Fraud Guidelines
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are among the members of an industry group that will set guidelines for identifying invalid or fraudulent clicks, a source of major problems with advertisers who complain Internet companies unfairly charge them, organizers said ...
GAO investigation exposes flaws in border security
Three years after it first tested how effective the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was in screening people entering the United States at land border crossings, the Government Accountability Office retraced its steps and found security there is st...
Agency says laptop with client information stolen
The West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services is warning clients that one of its laptop computers containing their personal information has been stolen. The information includes clients" names, addresses, Social Security numbers and telephone numb...
Belhaven College data stolen
A laptop computer stolen last month from a Belhaven College employee contained names and Social Security numbers of college employees, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft. Belhaven College President Roger Parrott confirmed Tuesday the stolen compute...
Identity theft virus infects 10,000 computers
More than 10,000 Australian computers have been infected by a trojan virus - invisible to most anti-virus software - that is transmitting their owners" private details to identity thieves. The Australian Tax Office confirmed yesterday that 178 taxpayers h...
Poly heist risks identity thefts (3,020 Cal Poly students on a laptop)
Cal Poly has notified 3,020 current and former students that their names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop computer stolen earlier this month from a physics professor"s San Luis Obispo home. Cal Poly used names and Social Security numbers on cl...
Blog feeds may carry security risk
Reading blogs via popular RSS or Atom feeds may expose computer users to hacker attacks, a security expert warns. Attackers could insert malicious JavaScript in content that is transferred to subscribers of data feeds that use the popular RSS (Really Simp...