Jeremy Kirk

A review by the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office found that Google has improved privacy protections in its products but more work is needed

Web-based apps will affect how the riots and looting are investigated. Plus, how will RIM co-operate?

A downloadable tool capitalizes on a long-known issue with FireWire that allows it to be used to read a computer's memory

But the hacker collective said it won't release e-mails allegedly hacked from The Sun tabloid just yet. Anonymous also claimed on its "AnonymousIRC" Twitter handle that it has 1GB of material from NATO but said that most would not be published because it would be "irresponsible"

By manipulating a URL, anyone with a Webmaster tools account could remove a site from the index. Google, however, fixed the flaw within seven hours

Cybersecurity advisor points to bust of ChronoPay as evidence of an improving attitude toward cybercrime

The company's main Web site was unavailable for a while on Tuesday as WikiLeaks gloated. A MasterCard spokeswoman in Belgium would not directly answer if the site's downtime was due to a DDOS attack

The application encrypts voice traffic twice to prevent snooping. Cellcrypt uses public key cryptography, and each phone running its software has its own private key stored only on the device