Think one quick download of the latest Miley Cyrus release to your state computer won’t hurt anything? At the Illinois Department on Aging, it might have triggered the release of sensitive employee information.

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A hacker who confessed he created one of the world’s first botnets to use peer-to-peer technology won’t spend any time in prison because of the assistance he’s provided to prosecutors.

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But I did hope that Qtrax - a recently launched service offering free, legal song downloads - would come close without costing me dearly in frustration.

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A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced Tuesday.

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The new “sleep talking ” state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode.

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One of the commonly touted advantages to using a Mac is that it’s more secure and less prone to malware than a PC running Windows.

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Online video site Joost is shopping itself around to different cable TV operators, but at least one has declined to buy it, according to people with knowledge of the talks.

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P2P:- The so-called file sharing issue is about a lot more than greedy corporate interests trying to rip off the people who keep them alive.

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Congress is back on the war path about file sharing systems that critics say make it a little too easy for consumers, businesses, and even government agencies to accidentally disclose confidential records.

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The verdict against The Pirate Bay could turn out to be something of a game changer for P2P file sharing.

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Vendors must club together to fix the “perilous” gaps dogging security implementations, according to the president of security company RSA.

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There was a popular word in the 70’s - ” antidisestablishmentarianism. It was used for two things - ” spelling tests and Time Magazine articles about spelling tests.

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“It’s been a busy week,” deadpanned Jo Oliver, several days after a Swedish court sentenced four men behind the notorious BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay to a year in jail each, after they were found guilty of assisting in making copyrighted material available.

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In what has become a regular occurrence , another version of Windows 7 has leaked to file-sharing sites.

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A key oversight panel in the House of Representatives said this week that it is re-opening an investigation into the “indavertent sharing” of sensitive government and consumer data through popular peer-to-peer file swapping programs such as BearShare and Limewire .

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