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Skype says it was unaware of China message-logging

In a blog posting to the eBay subsidiary's corporate blog, Skype President Josh Silverman said his company had no idea that the Tom-Skype software, distributed to Skype users in China, was logging chat messages and storing them on a publicly accessible server.

| News | Government | Security | 10/02/08 at 8:20 pm |


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Skype messages being monitored in China, group says

Tom-Skype, a joint venture in China between eBay's Skype unit and Tom Online, has been known to operate a text filter on text chats, but a new report says that the data is stored insecurely and the text messages and records containing personal data can be easily accessed.

| News | Security | 10/02/08 at 10:17 am |


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Trojan can grab extra personal banking data

A Trojan horse program now available to a growing number of fraudsters can add data entry fields to legitimate online banking sites and entice consumers to give up sensitive information such as bank card numbers and PINs (personal identification numbers).

| News | Security | 09/28/08 at 8:36 pm |


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Large ISPs endorse customer opt-in for Web tracking

Three of the four largest ISPs (Internet service providers) in the U.S. said Thursday that they will adopt policies that require them to get meaningful permission from customers before tracking online activities.

| News | Internet | 09/25/08 at 4:56 pm |


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