Like all location products, the new application publishes potentially sensitive information, since a stream of information on location can provide a detailed picture of your life. Some locations might appear cool at one moment, and yet become something you'd rather forget the next.

College students do care about Facebook privacy, it turns out, and their use of the service's privacy settings has skyrocketed between 2009 and 2010, according to two researchers.

While WikiLeaks is relatively new to the public, it is actually a product of a long-established culture. That culture has already had a banner-bearer; a quintessential exemplification of its values: The Pirate Bay. WikiLeaks is akin to The Pirate Bay, but for another purpose.

A wide swath of the net’s top websites including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd were sued in federal court on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to recreate cookies deleted by users...

Will ubiquitous encryption of important network traffic ever happen? A group of researchers are talking up a technology they say could make end-to-end encryption of TCP traffic the default, not the exception.

The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) recently sent out a mass email to all of it's employees. The employees received a notice that their internet access at work would begin to be limited. Yes, government employees would have some sort of restriction on their internet browsing while at work.

Apparently Facebook noticed the slap down that the FTC gave Twitter in June because it “failed to prevent unauthorized administrative control of its system.” Shortly afterwards one of the senior engineers at Facebook responsible for SRE (site…

This 30-year veteran of stalking thinks the next generation of cyberstalkers is too spoiled. Between Facebook and Foursquare, it's no wonder, he says.

If you have checked in with Foursquare in San Francisco in the last three weeks, Jesper Andersen probably knows where and when -- even if you've set your check-ins to be published to friends only.

In the event of a national emergency, the bill would grant the power to control, and even shut down, large swaths of the Internet to the National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC), a new office created within the DHS by the PCNAA.