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InternetNews October 28, 2010	Verizon Settles With FCC for $25M The $25 million settlement resolves charges that Verizon profited from millions of dollars in accidental data charges to customers over the past three years.
PC World January 27, 2003 Williams et al.	Spread of Slammer Worm Slows Investigators are searching for the source of the worm that caused major disruptions to Internet service over the weekend.
InternetNews April 3, 2007 Roy Mark	FTC Approves Final Guidance Settlement Guidance Software's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission became official today, almost five months after the Pasadena, Calif.-based computer forensics specialist admitted it did not adequately protect customer data.
InternetNews September 4, 2009	Google Books Scrutiny Mounts as Deadline Nears Google agrees to create privacy policy for its Book Search project amid FTC concerns.
InternetNews June 24, 2010	Twitter Signs Off on FTC's Wrist Slap Twitter has agreed to revamp its security policies and will be subjected to a third-party review of its improved safeguards for the next decade.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Sharon Gaudin	2003 'Worst Year Ever' for Viruses, Worms In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts.
PC World September 4, 2001 Kim Zetter	Did FBI Ignore Code Red Warning? Fast-spreading malicious worm may have had a less successful predecessor...
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Windows 2000 Exploit Code Released Exploit code for a known security flaw in Microsoft Windows 2000 has been posted online, putting millions of users at risk of a PC hijack. Apply those MS04-019 and MS04-022 security patches as needed.
Information Today January 14, 2013 George H. Pike	Google Reaches Settlements With FTC Over Search, Patent Practices On Jan. 3, 2013, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Google reached a series of agreements that closed the FTC's investigation into several of Google's business practices, in return for Google's agreement to modify those practices.
Bio-IT World September 11, 2003 Philip D. Quarles	Safeguarding the Security of Clinical Data Given the frequency of Web site attacks, can data be safely stored on a server connected to the Internet? Yes, provided that the application is properly designed and the network and server properly secured.
PC World November 2004 Dan Verton	Biography of a Worm Can anything stop the next global virus outbreak? We follow the trail of one recent worm to see how the security system works--and whether it can be fixed.
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Riordan, Wespi & Zamboni	How to Hook Worms Because a computer network cannot ward off every last Internet worm, it must sound an alarm the minute one slithers inside.
InternetNews May 3, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Sasser Worm Reined But Variants Sprout Experts continue to stress the importance of applying Microsoft's MS04-011 patch.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Wormy Mobile Phone Future Those expensive cell phones, with all the features, now come with a worry -- security.
PC World August 9, 2001 Joris Evers	Microsoft Sees Red: Worm Infects Its Own Servers Neglecting its own servers, Microsoft gets hit by the worm it urged customers to avoid...
PC World November 2004 Harry McCracken	Is This Any Way to Fix Security Holes? How today's software patching process actually helps hackers do their job.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	New Zero-Day Exploit Emerges for Microsoft SQL Microsoft issues warning for attack vector that could paralyze database servers.
CFO March 1, 2003 Scott Leibs	A Sense of Insecurity Hacking incidents and other computer-systems breaches are on the rise. But will they reach C-level?
CIO November 1, 2003 Scott Berinato	FrankenPatch The more you patch, the more you need to patch, and the more kludgy and terrifyingly unpredictable your systems and applications become. Is there any way to escape this horror?
InternetNews March 30, 2011	Google Apologies for Buzz, Settles with FCC Google reaches settlement with the FCC over Buzz and its privacy practices.
InternetNews May 26, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Korgo Worm Targets LSASS Flaw The detection of a new network worm is a clear indication that users have still not applied Microsoft's MS04-011 update.
CIO March 15, 2001	Policing Privacy Find the answers to all your Internet privacy law questions: Web hosts and COPPA... Privacy issues while trying to track down hackers... Monitoring employee Internet use in Canada... Privacy laws by country...
PC World May 2003 Daniel Tynan	Dawn of the Superworm Experts warn that the Slammer worm is a harbinger of worse strains to come.
PC World June 2004 Stuart J. Johnston	Worms Come Faster: Are You at Risk? Play it safe and install the latest Outlook and MSN Messenger updates to protect against the new worms.
PC World January 28, 2003 Paul Roberts	Was the FBI's Response to Slammer Too Slow? The recent creation of the Department of Homeland Security likely hampered the government's handling of the worm, insiders say.
U.S. Banker July 2003 Michael Grebb	If Bonnie and Clyde Only Knew... Bankers are working to shore up security efforts, particularly on-line breaches. But hacking a bank's network is too fun to forgo, making prevention that much harder.
InternetNews July 31, 2006 Clint Boulton	SQL Injection Threatens to Needle Web Users A scripting flaw that lets perpetrators pull any content from a database is a scary tool for IT admins.
Entrepreneur November 2003 Melissa Campanelli	Stand and Deliver What happens when Web merchants make delivery promises they can't keep?
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Security Lapses Aplenty Despite Growing Threats A study by Verizon Business's RISK team reveals some disconcerting shortcomings in companies' security.
InternetNews August 15, 2005 Jim Wagner	Zotob Targets Windows Update Laggards A critical vulnerability in Microsoft's plug-and-play code can wreak havoc on unpatched PCs.
InternetNews August 10, 2006 Andy Patrizio	To Patch Or Not To Patch? Microsoft issues a fix to a severe hole. The government insists we use it, but is there a risk?
InternetNews June 5, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	FTC Shutters 'Rogue' ISP, Settles Spyware Case The Federal Trade Commission has put the kibosh on an ISP it says was a front for overseas criminals, and settled its complaint against Sears' use of tracking software.
InternetNews November 9, 2009	Worm Attack Rickrolls Aussie iPhones A virus that replaces wallpaper strikes on jailbroken iPhones Down Under.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Merchants Unwittingly Disclose Consumer Data CartManager International, a provider of shopping cart software, collected the personal data of nearly one million people and turned around and rented the data without their consent to marketers. The company reached a settlement with the FTC.
InternetNews December 21, 2004 Tim Gray	Holiday Worm Putting Grinch in Season Santy.A might sound like some kind of holiday cheer but as thousands of Web site operators are quickly finding out, the nasty little worm is only spreading fear.
InternetNews February 5, 2010	SQL Injections Led to 60% of UK Data Breaches Malicious hackers are relying on growing numbers of increasingly complex SQL attacks to get at companies' data.
Bank Systems & Technology August 24, 2010 Penny Crosman	Verizon Cloud PCI Compliant, Ready for Payment Apps Banks and other companies can potentially run payment applications in Verizon's data centers.
InternetNews August 16, 2005 David Needle	Windows Worm Spreads Separate groups of hackers are releasing a barrage of worms related to the Zotob.B virus in a battle to seize control of innocent users' computers. CNN, ABC and the NY Times, are among those hit.
Insurance & Technology May 14, 2005 Michael Cohn	7 Myths About Network Security While hacker tools are growing more sophisticated and automated, many organizations have a false sense of security about their own data and networks. Take a look at these security myths to see if your data is as secure as you think it is.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Andy Patrizio	New Worm Counts On Lazy Admins In a twist from their usual methods, virus writers have written an exploit to a patch that Microsoft issued this week, hoping to take advantage of IT shops that are slow on the draw.
PC Magazine May 1, 2010 Albanesius & Rhey	Anatomy of a Hack In late March, a chapter was closed with little fanfare on the biggest case of online identity theft in U.S. history.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Douglas MacMillan	The FTC Takes on the Spam Dispensers The FTC's David Vladeck is fighting Twitter, Facebook, and other Web titans to hunt spammers, spyware, and identity thieves.