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Google removes more malware-ridden apps from Android Market
Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) has removed from the official Android Market some two dozen apps containing malware that threaten smartphone data, a mobile security firm is warning. The security firm Lookout
BP loses oil, now personal data
BP--infamous for last year's Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico--is still having trouble containing its resources. First it caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, and now it lost
Investigation finds smartphone apps violating user privacy
A Wall Street Journal investigation of 101 popular smartphone apps, which includes games and other software applications for the iPhone and Android devices--showed that 56 transmitted the devices'
Many apps violate privacy on the sly
As part of a series of articles on privacy, a couple of journalists from the Wall Street Journal designed a system to intercept data transmitted by applications on both the iOS (iPhone, iPad) and the
Iran grappling with Stuxnet worm
A high-ranking Iranian official earlier this week admitted publicly that the Stuxnet computer worm has been infiltrating the country's industrial computer systems. Hamid Alipour, deputy head of
Facebook sued over privacy changes
A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook, charging that it modified its privacy settings, reducing rather than increasing, privacy protections. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the
Some Sprint Palm users missing webOS backups
Just weeks after T-Mobile USA Sidekick users experienced a cloud computing snafu, Palm users on Sprint Nextel's network who are trying to move their backed-up content from one webOS-based device to
T-Mobile USA resumes sales of Sidekick
T-Mobile USA said that it has resumed selling Sidekick devices, a little more than a month after a Microsoft server glitch caused some Sidekick users to lose their personal data. The carrier
ChoicePoint pays $275,000 fine for data breach
ChoicePoint Inc. agreed to pay $275,000 to federal regulators as a result of a data breach last year that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal information of 13,750 people. The
Big brother is watching
The founder of the World Wide Web has a warning for the online world: We all are at increased risk of governments and corporations spying on us. Tim Berners-Lee, who founded the World Wide Web, said
