Holy *bleep*! Federal, state, and local law enforcement requested about 1.3 million cellphone records from wireless carriers in 2011 . . . and that doesn’t count T-Mobile since the company failed to give numbers. “I never expected it to be this massive,” said Rep. Edward Markey about the mobile surveillance numbers after he and Rep. Read more
NEW YORK — Walgreen Co. says a list of customers’ e-mail addresses has been breached and spam may have been sent out directing customers to enter personal data into outside Web sites. The company notified customers on Friday that their e-mail had been …
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Comcast to Monitor Customer Computers for Malware — Comcast is expanding a test of a service that will monitor customer’s computers for infiltration by botnets, a particularly threatening form of malware. It appears to be the first U.S. provider to directly monitor for malware in its customer’s computers.
Verizon FiOS Customer Self-Help Tool Popular With Users; New Features Make … Reuters The upgrades allow customers to, among other things, more easily set up new computers or manage computer security . The In-Home Agent now is helping FiOS …