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Sony's share price fell more than three percent to a two-year low Monday after the latest online attack against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant targeted its European subsidiary. http://phys.org/news226565317.html Technology Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:48:49 EST news226565317 Lockheed Martin, the world's top defense contractor, was on Sunday investigating the source of a major cyber-attack one week ago against its information network, the company said. http://phys.org/news225897392.html Technology Sun, 29 May 2011 14:16:59 EST news225897392 Hackers launched a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack on Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor holding highly sensitive information, but its secrets remained safe, the company said Saturday. http://phys.org/news225866842.html Technology Sun, 29 May 2011 06:06:24 EST news225866842 (AP) -- A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is challenging Apple Inc. and Google Inc. to require all developers that make apps for their mobile devices to adopt formal privacy policies. http://phys.org/news225565275.html Technology Wed, 25 May 2011 18:01:42 EST news225565275 Sony on Tuesday said its websites in three countries had been hacked with 8,500 Greek user accounts compromised, in a blow to efforts to restore confidence after a huge data breach affecting millions. http://phys.org/news225436808.html Technology Tue, 24 May 2011 06:20:21 EST news225436808 Google is in the process of updating its Android operating system to fix an issue that is believed to have left millions of smartphones and tablets vulnerable to personal data leaks. http://phys.org/news225117432.html Technology Fri, 20 May 2011 13:37:22 EST news225117432 Japanese game developer Square Enix Holdings said email addresses of 25,000 customers as well as resumes of 250 job applicants were leaked after a hacker attack against its European subsidiary. http://phys.org/news224677001.html Technology Sun, 15 May 2011 11:17:14 EST news224677001 (AP) -- Sony said Tuesday it aims to fully restore its PlayStation Network, shut down after a massive security breach affecting over 100 million online accounts, by the end of May. http://phys.org/news224234419.html Technology Tue, 10 May 2011 08:20:40 EST news224234419 (AP) -- Sony Corp. Chief Executive Howard Stringer apologized for "inconvenience and concern" caused by the security breach that compromised personal data from more than 100 million online gaming accounts. http://phys.org/news223874326.html Technology Fri, 06 May 2011 04:19:14 EST news223874326 (AP) -- Sony says it has taken down its online PC gaming service due to a problem it found while investigating the security breach at its PlayStation service last month. http://phys.org/news223576868.html Technology Mon, 02 May 2011 17:41:20 EST news223576868 Sony said it was working with investigators after hackers stole data from users of its PlayStation Network, and told customers it would restore services only when it was confident it was secure. http://phys.org/news223183176.html Technology Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:10:01 EST news223183176 (AP) -- The Dutch data protection watchdog criticized Google on Tuesday for collecting data on private wireless networks, ordering it to contact 3.6 million Dutch WiFi owners and offer them a way to have their data deleted. http://phys.org/news222443037.html Technology Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:44:10 EST news222443037 Internet heavyweights including Google and Facebook are to file a complaint with France's highest judicial body against a decree obliging them to keep web users' personal data for a year. http://phys.org/news221215718.html Technology Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:10:01 EST news221215718 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Free Software Foundation is at it again, promoting their laudable, if potentially unrealistic, goal to have all software released under a free software license. Their latest target for information freebies is Gmail. For those of you not familiar with this service, Gmail is the free web mail that is provided by Google. http://phys.org/news221151824.html Technology Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:04:31 EST news221151824 The Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with Google on Wednesday over Google Buzz, the social networking tool rolled out last year which spawned a slew of privacy complaints. http://phys.org/news220703216.html Technology Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:27:38 EST news220703216 The White House urged Congress on Wednesday to approve a "consumer privacy bill of rights" to govern the collection and use of personal data on the Internet. http://phys.org/news219499289.html Technology Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:01:45 EST news219499289 A virtual 'guard' that gives you greater control over your personal data has been developed by experts at Newcastle University. http://phys.org/news219405015.html Technology Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:51:11 EST news219405015 A system designed to track the location of millions of mobile phone users is to be tested in Beijing, sparking concerns over privacy, state media reported Thursday. http://phys.org/news218373210.html Technology Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:40:02 EST news218373210 Always window-shopping but never stopping to buy? In the future you can do both with new technology allowing you to point through the window at items and buy them with a swish of your hand. http://phys.org/news218176762.html Technology Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:39:55 EST news218176762 US coffee chain Starbucks on Wednesday began allowing customers in its US stores to keep their cash and credit cards in their wallets and pay for their drinks with mobile phones. http://phys.org/news214683236.html Technology Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:15:52 EST news214683236 Italy's antitrust authority on Monday closed a probe into Google for alleged abuse of its market position, saying it accepted pledges made by the search engine to provide greater transparency. http://phys.org/news214487440.html Technology Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:50:58 EST news214487440 Internet giant Google said sorry to New Zealanders Tuesday for collecting personal data from wireless networks for its "Street View" mapping service, in the latest in a series of apologies. http://phys.org/news211524938.html Technology Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:20:01 EST news211524938 (AP) -- Federal regulators are proposing to create a "Do Not Track" tool for the Internet so that consumers could prevent marketers from tracking their Web browsing habits and other online behavior in order to target advertising. http://phys.org/news210428518.html Technology Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:22:06 EST news210428518 Two of China's leading Internet firms have been forced by the government to issue public apologies over a nasty spat marked by accusations of unfair market practices and privacy infringement. http://phys.org/news209619034.html Technology Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:37:32 EST news209619034 (AP) -- The European Union wants companies such as Google Inc. or Facebook Inc. to give people more control over how their online habits are tracked, requirements that could crimp Internet firms' ability to target advertising. http://phys.org/news208172806.html Technology Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:47:00 EST news208172806 German ministers criticised social networking site Facebook on Sunday for failing to respect privacy, following a report of a serious flaw that allowed non-subscribers access to private data. http://phys.org/news206553426.html Technology Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:57:15 EST news206553426 Some 7,500 people demonstrated Saturday in Berlin to express their concerns about personal data privacy as the German government and private companies amass giant databases, organisers said. http://phys.org/news203440167.html Technology Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:09:53 EST news203440167 New Zealand police said Thursday that Google did not commit a criminal offence when it collected data from wireless networks for its "Street View" mapping service. http://phys.org/news202620566.html Technology Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:10:01 EST news202620566 Google said Friday it had resumed photographing France with its Street View bikes and cars but without gathering fragments of personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi systems for which it is being probed. http://phys.org/news201522636.html Technology Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:50:01 EST news201522636 Hardly a month goes by without a new alarm being sounded about privacy online, either because companies are surreptitiously collecting and using data about Web users or because they're releasing information that users thought would be kept private. Web surfers' sense that they have little or no control over these data makes them suspicious even of efforts to make advertising more palatable, such as the shift from one-size-fits-all ads to more personalized and relevant pitches. http://phys.org/news200164721.html Technology Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:50:01 EST news200164721