Robert Lemos

In a letter to Congress, nearly three dozen organizations protest the seizures of electronic devices by U.S. customs officials, an act upheld by a federal appeals court in a recent ruling.
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A Trojan horse mines Monster.com for personal details that could make fraudulent e-mail schemes more convincing, while evidence mounts that other job sites are also being attacked.
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A great story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about a woman who happen to see the thief who had stolen her identity six months before. The woman, Karen Lodrick, followed and then, when she was found out, chased the thief through San Francisco.

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The Phoenix New Times has a good investigative piece on one of the co-founders of identity-protection firm Lifelock, Robert Maynard, Jr., who apparently has had a checkered past.

According to the piece, Maynard has filed for bankruptcy; he had to close down his previous company, a credit-repair service, after the federal government banned him from the [...]

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If you read one thing today, make it this anonymous submission to the Washington Post from the president of a small Internet access company. The person, whose identity and claims the Washington Post confirmed, has taken the FBI to court for issuing a National Security Letter to him requesting information on a client.

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A security researcher unveils a project that aims to identify sources on the pro-privacy network, but does the initiative help track down criminals or just hurt legitimate users?
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Banks and retailers in the United States and Canada report an increasing amount of illicit transactions linked to a server breach at the company that owns retail chains in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
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An unknown attacker uses a security flaw to access a restricted database containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on students, faculty and staff of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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The social networking site has paired up with an ID verification firm to build a national database of convicted sex offenders, a technology the service hopes will enable it to keep predators out of its community.
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Most companies monitor their employees in some way, but is corporate Big Brother going too far?
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