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Confidential customer details exposed on Qantas site

Qantas' online booking site today breached the privacy at least two of its customers, with their personal details revealed to another party when they attempted to access flight check-in information online.

| News | Business | Security | 11/21/08 at 11:18 am |


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Deleting your digital past -- for good

As time goes by, more of us are being tailed by some little thing out there on the Web, an awful bit that emerges when someone Googles our names, a black mark that we'd like to erase before a colleague or a prospective employer sees it. Is it possible for an ordinary person to get some damaging tidbit entirely erased from the Web?

| Feature | Internet | Security | 11/17/08 at 10:59 am |


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Data privacy, security laws have far-reaching impact

Massachusetts has enacted data privacy and data security regulations that will make it eke out California for the most wide ranging state privacy and security laws -- laws that are likely to impact the policies, practices, procedures, contracts and training used by companies nationwide.

| Opinion | Security | 11/10/08 at 2:25 pm |


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Mozilla adds privacy mode to Firefox test build

Mozilla has added a privacy mode to the still-under-construction Firefox 3.1, a major milestone in the development of the upgrade.

| News | Internet | Security | 11/05/08 at 1:29 pm |


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