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A new version of Google's personal computer operating system, Chrome OS, was released for developers Tuesday. It adds design elements of more conventional offerings like Windows and OS X ...

In what could be the largest mass infection of Mac computers to date, the Flashback Trojan was estimated to have reached some 700,000 Macs by the end of last week ...

Two zombie networks infamous for stealing banking information and spewing spam were hit with a right-left combination last week by botnet fighters ...

Microsoft continued to expand its television offerings for members of its Xbox Live Gold service Monday by adding HBO Go, Major League Baseball video and Comcast's on-demand video service ...

Iran apparently has developed an antivirus program to neutralize the notorious Stuxnet virus that put a kink in the country's nuclear development program in June 2010 ...

Security experts have been debating for years the merits of whitelists versus blacklists in securing an enterprise, and last week the debate continued to rage with the release of some test results from the Tolly Group ...

Nearly 80 percent of organizations have experienced a data breach in the last two years due to employee negligence or maliciousness ...

Google tore down the silos around its app, music, movie and ebook stores Tuesday and melded them into a single outlet called "Google Play." ...

Before your company finds itself embroiled in a lawsuit over a data breach that spills personal information about your customers all over the Internet, you might want to take a look at some recent research by Carnegie Mellon and Temple Universities ...

A camera that allows photographers to control the focus in a picture after it's shot is set to start shipping on Friday ...

Google on Tuesday rebuffed a request by a European Union privacy body to delay implementation of changes in the search giant's privacy policies set to take effect on March 1 ...

Internet privacy appeared on the big stage last week when the Obama administration unveiled its plans on the subject, which included a bill of rights for consumer privacy ...

Google's privacy practices came under fire again last week for undermining the privacy practices of someone else. Namely, Apple ...

A deal worth billions to Yahoo has reportedly hit a snag ...

Mobile shopping received a setback last week when security researchers discovered flaws in Google Wallet that could potentially expose its PIN to enterprising hackers ...

Google has brought its Chrome Web browser to the Android Market ...

Google last week announced it's beefed up security at the Android Market with a malware sniffing system called "Bouncer." ...

Social networks are popular with lots of folks, including terrorists. That's why the FBI is looking for a contractor that will design an "early warning system" for it based on monitoring chatter on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google+ ...

Encrypting data on your computer may protect you from hackers and thieves, but it won't protect you from crime investigators ...

As far as SOPA's critics are concerned, "if something works, break it" seemed to be the motto of the U.S. Congress last week as it rushed to pass a controversial bill that security experts maintained could throw a bomb into the gearbox of the Internet ...