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03/30/2005

'Perfect storm' for new privacy laws?

A series of security break-ins is kick-starting a political drive to reshape federal laws that dictate how companies protect personal information--and what they have to do if that data leaks out. With Declan McCullagh.

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Banks ordered to tell customers about breaches

Four federal finance agencies have issued rules that force banks to tell customers when their personal data has been exposed.

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03/29/2005

Melissa's long gone, but lessons remain

It's been six years since the Melissa macro virus first got loose, but security experts say network administrators and PC owners still have lessons to learn from it.

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03/23/2005

Mozilla fixes risky Firefox flaw

The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch for a major security flaw in its Firefox browser on Wednesday and advised people to update their software.

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03/22/2005

Linux riskier than Windows?

Companies face greater risks if they run their Web sites on Linux rather than Windows, a Microsoft-funded study has concluded.

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01/26/2005

Interview: Robert Liscouski, Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Robert Liscouski doesn''t hesitate to explain why he''s leaving the Department of Homeland Security: He pledged two years, and time''s up. Liscouski thus becomes the latest high-ranking cybersecurity official to leave the DHS, where protecting the U.S. information infrastructure made up only part of his duties.

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Bank of America loses a million customer records

A "small" number of backup tapes with records detailing the financial information of government employees were lost in shipment to a backup center, Bank of America said on Friday.

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01/25/2005

Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hacker

A celebrity porn deal gone bad could be the key to cracking the T-Mobile hacking case, publicity professional David Hans Schmidt said Friday.

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01/14/2005

Interview: Marek "Benny" Strihavka, ex-virus writer, 29A

For five years, Czech student Marek Strihavka programmed computer viruses as part of the underground group 29A. A twist of fate, however, has led the former virus writer to take a job stopping digital pests like those he used to create. About a year after leaving 29A, which takes its name from the base-16 representation of 666, the 22-year-old resident of Brno in the Czech Republic became the main developer of Zoner Software's antivirus system.

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