A person doesn't shop for a mattress too often, and the process takes time. Typically, a customer looks over mattresses on display at a store, asks a salesman a few questions and says she will go home to think it over. The salesman hands the shopper his card and urges her to come back soon.
The most popular password among nearly 400,000 exposed by the Gawker hack was "12345," according to an analysis done by a security firm.
Passwords used by people employed by US federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according to a report by PBS NewsHour on Monday.
Nearly one in 10 American adults who use the Internet are <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9190922/Twitter_aiming_high_1_billion_users">Twitter users</a> .
Microsoft today said that the next major milestone of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will let users determine who tracks their movement and behavior online, its response to increasing calls for additional consumer control over the practice.
WASHINGTON - Amazon is a prominent company in the U.S. Its cloud servers host the U.S. government's Recovery.gov stimulus spending Web site, and it is competing for even more federal business. It also spent about $1.5 million this year on lobbying in Washington, according to OpenSecrets.org.
Cloud computing can enhance the privacy of Australian enterprises, the Australian Privacy Commissioner has claimed.
After Facebook's struggle with one privacy issue after another this year, some in the industry are raising privacy questions about Facebook's new messaging system.
Things are getting a bit heated between two of the largest Internet companies as they spar over users' data.
Smart card vendor Gemalto introduced a new credit card Wednesday that's capable of generating one-time-passwords (OTP) for electronic banking and payment transactions.
Many regard LinkedIn as the "safe" social network -- there are no games that jeopardise your privacy, you aren't posting incriminating photos of last weekend's Halloween party and you're not TKTKTKTK. But that's no reason to ignore the privacy and account settings that LinkedIn has in place.
The security researcher who created the Firesheep snooping tool defended his work today, saying it's no one's business what software people run on their computers.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of attention lately, not so much for the company's ubiquitous search engine or any of the company's other products. It's more for what Schmidt has been saying about privacy.
Google CEO <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188800/In_Schmidt_s_vision_Google_will_search_before_you_even_ask">Eric Schmidt</a> has again kicked up something of an online firestorm with a statement about privacy.
Two members of the U.S. Congress Tuesday hit Facebook with a series of questions about the latest privacy issues surrounding the site's most popular applications.