The Information Commissioner's Office has compared TalkTalk's new anti-malware technology to controversial targettered advertising firm Phorm.

Let's say your organization doesn't have a formal enterprise risk management program. If you're at a big company, ERM might seem daunting because of silos, inertia and so on.

About a year ago, I wrote an article for this site that began by praising the craft required to produce a spam header intriguing enough to coax an innocent recipient into opening the unsolicited message (see "Straight to the Spam Folder: Astonishing E-Mail Messages You'll Never Open"). Then I spent the rest of the story mocking various spam headers that editors at PCWorld had recently received.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) practice of searching laptops and other electronic devices at U.S. borders.

Microsoft is looking into a long-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that could be used to access users' data and Web-based accounts.

Operators of Direct Connect filesharing hubs are being targeted

Swedish police have searched houses belonging to people suspected of illegal filesharing in Stockholm, Haparanda and Östersund in the last two weeks.

Operators of Direct Connect file-sharing hubs are being targeted

Swedish police have searched houses belonging to people suspected of illegal file-sharing in Stockholm, Haparanda and Östersund in the last two weeks.

ISPs no longer required to spy on customer download activity

Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over the weekend.

Keep your Internet activity safe from relatives and roommates

A lot of that depends on if you're using your own computer or the roommate's. Using their PC inevitably involves compromises. For instance, they'd have every right to object if you try to install software. Even then, you can still protect your secrets by using your browser's privacy mode, where the browser keeps no record of the sites you visit or the pages you see.

The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has stuck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive information was found lying in the street.

If you're both adults, can someone you're living with spy on your Internet habits? nikkiraz asked the Networking forum.

iPad owners must wait until November for multitasking, other new features

Apple yesterday laid out its plans for the next two upgrades of iOS, the mobile operating system that powers its iPhone and iPad, slating the first for release in a few days.

iPad owners must wait until November for multitasking, other new features

Apple yesterday laid out its plans for the next two upgrades of iOS, the mobile operating system that powers its iPhone and iPad, slating the first for release in a few days.

Duplicate discovery indicates that 'vendors must patch faster'

A critical bug in QuickTime was reported to Apple two months before a second researcher independently revealed the vulnerability this week, the director of a bug bounty program said today.

Drive not encrypted

The curse of the unencrypted memory stick has stuck Manchester Police, which has suffered embarrassment as a drive containing apparently sensitive information was found lying in the street.

Facebook: Photo-processing flaw allowed spammer to post thousands of 'Free iPhone' messages

A clever spammer found a glitch in Facebook's photo upload system and used it to post thousands of unwanted Wall messages this week.

Consumer Watchdog, a group that has been a sharp critic of Google's privacy practices in the past, is at it once again.

Apple's music-focused social network, Ping is only a few days old, and already the iTunes-based feature is "drowning in scams and spams," security researchers say. The scams are nothing too advanced at the moment, and there are no reports of clickjacking worms or other forms of aggressive malware, experts say. But if you're looking for links to bogus surveys promising free iPhones, iPads and other assorted iDevices then Ping in iTunes 10 is the social network for you.

Germany will soon launch a service to help consumers remove malicious software from their computers in an attempt to stem the spread of spam-sending botnets.

A widely used program for Web spidering can be hijacked for malicious purposes