PC World - An online privacy group is calling on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Google is making deceptive claims over the security of data stored in cloud-computing services such as Gmail and Google Docs. -- read full article
PC World - Comcast now believes a phishing or malware scam is to blame for exposing hundreds of its customers' user names and passwords. A list containing around 8,000 names was discovered by a PC World reader this week and brought to the company's attention. -- read full article
AP - A former contractor who worked at an American military base in Iraq is accused of hacking into teenage girls' computers in the U.S., coercing many of them into giving him revealing photos, authorities said Tuesday. -- read full article
PC World - Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software. -- read full article
Reuters - An online privacy group called on Tuesday for government regulators to investigate the adequacy of Google Inc's security safeguards after the company inadvertently released consumers' private information this month. -- read full article
PC World - Beijing has ordered China Mobile to crack down on mass text message spam and the sale of mobile phone numbers to advertisers after a media report showed the long-standing problems have survived efforts to stamp them out. -- read full article
PC World - The people behind StopBadware.org have launched a Web site where ordinary people can band together to fight computer viruses and adware. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Sunbelt Software has released a free command-line version of its popular VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware utility. Use it when you encounter a seriously messed-up PC, but be sure you have a second PC handy. -- read full article
PC World - More countries are joining a network designed to quickly react to cybercrime incidents around the world, a senior U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation official said Wednesday. -- read full article
PC World - Two online privacy groups slammed Google for launching a behavioral advertising program, with one advocate calling Google's plan a privacy "disaster." -- read full article
PC World - Prosecutors and judges are having a hard time understanding computer crime, but a training course under way in 14 countries is aiming to improve how legal systems deal with cybercrime. -- read full article
PC World - Countries are ratifying the only global cybercrime treaty slower than expected, but many are closer to implementing it, a senior Council of Europe official said Wednesday. -- read full article
PC World - iTunes gift cards worth $200 are now sold on a Chinese Website for merely $3. But that's not a crazy sales promotion from Apple -- it's actually a group of Chinese hackers who broke Apple's gift certificate algorithm and are now using a key generator to sell bargain gift cards on the Internet. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Symantec said Tuesday that an unsigned patch, known as PIFTS.exe, that was released by the company had been used as an excuse for spammers to launch a disinformation campaign about the company. -- read full article
