Security

BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants

Names, social security numbers, addresses other personal data potentially compromised

NASA releases first ever Mercury orbit planet picture

NASA MESSENGER satellite in orbit around Mercury sends back historic images

Behind the curtain of a botnet business

Critical NASA network was open to Internet attack

Network is used to run Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Hubble Telescope missions

FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes from murder mystery

FBI cryptanalysis hasn’t decrypted notes from 1999 murder mystery

Restaurant chain to pay $110,000 to settle breach claims

Mass. AG says 2009 breach exposing credit, debit card data of The Briar Group customers was caused by negligence

Get in the ring: US, Europe vow to bash out Internet personal privacy protection

Google, Facebook privacy activities targeted by EU in past

Hosting firm taps software-based net tool to add granular cloud controls

Accellion proffers secure cloud collaboration workspaces

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