Browser Fingerprints: A Big Privacy Threat

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• Browser Fingerprints: A Big Privacy Threat
• Protect Your Data from the Next 'Card Hacker'
• You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
• Military warns of increasingly active cyberthreat from China
• Service monitors workers' social network use
• Hacker Gonzalez gets 20 years for Heartland breach
• After DNS problem, Chinese root server is shut down

Browser Fingerprints: A Big Privacy Threat Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT Forget cookies -- even the ultrasneaky, Flash-based "super cookies." A new type of tracking may identify you far more accurately than any cookie -- and you may never know it was there.

Protect Your Data from the Next 'Card Hacker' Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT A federal judge sentenced the hacker behind the largest compromise of credit and debit card data in U.S. history to a 20-year sentence this week. While the exploits used to swipe data from over 130 million accounts went beyond cracking passwords, there are some basic precautions businesses should take to protect data from similar breaches and minimize the impact if a breach does occur.

You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT Google and China in one heck of a fight; commercial spacecraft takes Virgin flight

Military warns of increasingly active cyberthreat from China Posted: 27 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT On the same day that Google Inc. and the GoDaddy Group Inc. complained about China to a congressional committee, U.S. Navy Admiral Robert Willard appeared before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee with an even stronger warning about cyber-threats posed by China.

Service monitors workers' social network use Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT Teneros Inc. unveiled a service that would let companies monitor the Facebook, Twitter and other social networking posts of their employees.

Hacker Gonzalez gets 20 years for Heartland breach Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT Hacker Albert Gonzalez, who participated in a cybercrime ring that stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 20 years in prison.

After DNS problem, Chinese root server is shut down Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:00 AM PDT A China-based root DNS server associated with networking problems in Chile and the U.S. has been disconnected from the Internet.

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