Jeremy Kirk

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Student privacy activists due to meet with Facebook

The meeting on Feb. 6 aims to resolve disagreements over privacy issues between the group and Facebook

Alleged Kelihos botnet creator named by Microsoft

Microsoft says the man lives in St. Petersburg and used for work for a computer security software company

McAfee to patch spam relay problem in cloud product

The flaw in McAfee's SaaS for Total Protection can be used by attackers to send spam from victims' computers

RIM’s market share slide continues

In the U.S., BlackBerry is down to just under 17 per cent of the smart phone market, which is led by devices using the Android OS

OpenDNS releases tool to encrypt DNS requests

Clear text sent for resolution against a domain name database between user and ISP are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, the company says

WikiLeaks creating new whistle-blowing platform

WikiLeaks also released a study covering companies developing surveillance products

SEC probe of Computer Sciences Corp. expands

Alleged "intentional misconduct" has been discovered in Australia, CSC's vice-president says, and unnamed people have been suspended

Firewall upgrade can ID bad outbound traffic

Palo Alto Networks says its operating system can now find the source of dangerous outgoing traffic. It also released a firewall for branch offices

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