Google has begun scanning the streets of Paris, gathering data for its Street View service, which adds street-level photography to the satellite views offered by Google Maps. The search company will gather a wealth of data from the project but, thanks to France's strict privacy laws, it may also pick up a few lawsuits on the way if it chooses to publish the photos unedited.
Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far less common.
Western & Southern Financial Group had what it considered defense in depth for its IP network but recognized that there were still ways that sensitive data might leave the network undetected, so it looked for more protection. The company, which manages $47 billion in assets, chose to add Palo Alto Network?s next-generation firewall to its existing traditional firewall, intrusion prevention system, URL filtering and data-loss prevention gear.
A mysterious software bug in 17 lottery machines used by the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board in Washington left several dozen winning instant ticket holders unable to immediately cash their prize tickets last week.
Facebook is following in the footsteps of its rival MySpace by reaching an online safety agreement with the attorneys general of 49 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.
When I reviewed Objective Development Software GmbH's Little Snitch 1.2 for Macworld two years ago, it helpfully filled a gap in the ipfw firewall software Apple provides with Mac OS X. The built-in firewall monitored, and blocked, only incoming network traffic, and Little Snitch was one of the available options for dealing with outbound network traffic. With Little Snitch 2 ($25), Objective Development has delivered a worthy successor, with more-informative alerts to the user, more ways of seeing what traffic is coming from your Mac, and more pre-configured rules for common types of network traffic.
It's not just the U.S. and U.K. who are crying foul over China's behavior in cyberspace - now the government of tiny Belgium has accused hackers from the country of targeting its systems.
