Security

P-to-P users expose U.S. government secrets

Contractors and government employees are sharing hundreds of secret documents on peer-to-peer networks

Take a byte out of ID crime

Update: Intel accused of breaching European antitrust rules

Intel has 10 weeks to reply to the EC's accusation that it abused its position in the microprocessor market to exclude rival AMD

Recovering from identity theft

Victims should take these steps to minimize the damage from identity scams

Take a byte out of ID crime

Companies must do their part in combating identity theft -- not just wait until mandated by law

Black Hat spurs Apple to patch iPhone

Apple has fewer than seven days to patch the iPhone, since an exploit hack is to be demoed at the Black Hat conference

Retailers gang up against bands of thieves

Merchants pool resources and information in LERPnet, a national retail crime database, to foil thieves and protect goods

Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent deepen mobility partnership

The companies plan to launch a venture based on both wired and wireless network security and featuring fixed-mobile convergence

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DOJ charges former Safenet exec with stock backdating

Former CFO is charged with eight counts of securities fraud and conspiracy to conceal the practice from Safenet's board of directors