Headline News Archive

2010

June

12

• Tech goes mobile and so do the hackers. Mobile devices are slick, powerful and convenient, but the news this week that AT&T suffered a data breach on thousands of iPads highlighted another quality:…

• Tabnabbing: Like phishing within browser. Mozilla's Aza Raskin is warning about a new type of phishing attack called tabnabbing. Unlike traditional phishing attacks which trick people into clicking on links…

08

• Financial abuses of deadbeat parents. For parents who've wrecked their own credit rating, cashing in on junior's clean financial history is increasingly tempting. Children make easy targets for identity thieves…

07

• 'Scareware' ads proliferate across Internet. Court records show to the penny how much software company Innovative Marketing banked by getting computer users to pay for fake anti-virus programs: $163,167,539.95. Before…

06

• Who's checking your credit report?. Dear Liz: As part of our mortgage refinance, my wife and I were provided copies of our credit reports and scores by the credit union…

03

• Frequent flier has rough landing on TSA watch list. Sean Kelly is no terrorist, but for years he was treated like one at airports. For unknown reasons, the Geneva resident landed several years ago…

01

• Yahoo to turn to social networking. Yahoo plans to announce Tuesday that it is jumping into social networking by using its massive population of e-mail subscribers as a base for sharing…

May

31

• When online gripes are met with a lawsuit. After a towing company hauled Justin Kurtz’s car from his apartment complex parking lot, despite his permit to park there, Mr. Kurtz, 21, a college…

• Web start-ups making deals for customer data. As concern increases in Washington about the amount of private data online, and as big sites like Facebook draw criticism that they collect consumers’ information…

30

• IRS wants a cut of online sales on eBay, Craigslist. Many people think of online auction sites, such as eBay and Craigslist, as virtual garage sales - a convenient way to clean out cluttered closets…

27

• Google balks at turning over data to regulators. Google has balked at requests from regulators to surrender Internet data and e-mails it collected from unsecured home wireless networks, saying it needed time to…

• Facebook revamps privacy settings. Facebook's founder presented new one-click options Wednesday to help subscribers protect their privacy, responding to a torrent of complaints that it had become far too…

25

• Facebook fixing privacy tools. Facebook facing a backlash among a growing faction of its users, plans to soon simplify its privacy tools. The disclosure, which came in an opinion…

24

• Companies required to defend against identity theft. With identity fraud on the increase, the federal government is stepping up efforts to make sure businesses are on the alert — especially financial institutions…

• Study points to health law's penalties. About one-third of employers subject to major requirements of the new health care law may face tax penalties because they offer health insurance that could…

• Rivals seize on privacy troubles of Facebook. t sounds like a kamikaze mission: an upstart with a meager number of users and no capital squaring off against Facebook, a social networking juggernaut…

23

• Documents you need to save or purge while getting organized. Save it or toss it? It's a question we face whenever confronted with canceled checks, utility bills, ATM and credit card receipts, 401(k) statements —…

22

• In online networks, privacy has no price tag. On the newest social networking Web sites, you are what you buy: ilona spent $6.41 at Chipotle. AshleyMarie got 1 song from iTunes for $1.29…

21

• Google, Sony want to change how we watch with Web TV. Google has conquered Web search. Now it wants to bring the Web to high-definition television. With Google TV coming in the fall, the Silicon Valley…

20

• Groups spar over black boxes in cars. A proposal to equip all new cars with "black boxes" to record crash data has emerged as a key point of dispute between the industry…

19

• College bound, DNA swab in hand. Instead of the usual required summer-reading book, this year’s incoming freshmen at the University of California, Berkeley, will get something quite different: a cotton swab…

17

• Facebook meets the "Unlike" button. The site that functions as one big popularity contest looks a little unpopular today. After a series of changes that eroded its users' privacy, Facebook…

• Shoppers check out of stores via cell phone. At the Rochester, Ind., Dairy Queen, more than 350 customers can wave special stickers fixed to the backs of their cell phones at a scanner…

13

• Price of Facebook privacy? Start clicking. Pop quiz: Which is longer, the United States Constitution or Facebook’s Privacy Policy? If you guessed the latter, you’re right. Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830…

12

• Genetic testing kits to be sold at drugstores. Genetic testing is making its way to the corner drugstore, and federal regulators aren't too happy about it. Walgreens will begin selling personal genetic testing…