Legitimate unsolicited e-mails from the Internal Revenue Service are like fairies or Nigerian businessmen who want to give you $1 million: They don’t exist.

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The FTC has notified almost 100 US organizations of serious P2P-related security breaches that have exposed consumers to the risk of identity theft and fraud.

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However, it’s almost as if when he makes a statement, we should believe the exact opposite and right now, according to CNet News , Crupnick says NPD “saw a 25 percent decline in illegal downloading in the United States via P2P sites during 2009″. NPD once claimed iTunes was beating LimeWire.

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Hallelujah! So Digital Dave slew Greedy Goliath and the kingdom is at peace. Let the torrent continue; the free music, movies and live sport.

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The personal health and financial information stored in thousands of North American home computers may be vulnerable to theft through file-sharing software, according to a research study published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .

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A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH : Specialists said that while hackers continue to look for customer data, there has been a rise in industrial espionage and counterfeiting BLOOMBERG AND AFP, WASHINGTON Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010, Page 10 Companies should take a hard look at their systems to ensure that there are no unauthorized P2P file-sharing programs and …

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There was drama at the High Court Wednesday during the trial of MDC treasurer general Roy Bennett when Perekai Mutsetse, a state witness presented as an IT expert, was found to have been a former general hand.

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Two Green Bay-area men now face charges in connection with two separate child pornography cases.

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P2P Cyber Protection and Informed User Act would prohibit peer-to-peer file sharing programs from being installed without the informed consent of the authorized computer user.

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In an unprecedented move, Microsoft secured a federal court order that, in effect, required VeriSign to cut off 277 Internet .com domains that were serving as the connections between Waledac’s command and control servers and around 60,000 to 80,000 bots or infected machines it had recruited to spew its spam.

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P2P:- If, back in the dark ages - say 15 years ago - whistle blower Cryptome had taken on Microsoft, it would probably have been ground into the dust because after Microsoft had stomped it, few people would’ve known.

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Organizations need to clean up their P2P act, the FTC has warned, or it may be obliged to enforce applicable data security laws.

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Several companies being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for inadvertently exposing customer and employee data on peer-to-peer networks, have been asked by the agency to submit extensive information on their data-collection, usage and protection practices.

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Innovative software that protects P2P file sharers from lawsuits by copyright holders and identity theft due to the inadvertent sharing of private data is now the 11th most popular download on CNET’s Download.com TORONTO, CANADA, February 26, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — ZapShares Inc.

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A LIVE aerial snapshot has just been revealed tracking the electronic file sharing of paedophiles.

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