Anne Saita

The professional networking site LinkedIn won a class-action lawsuit before it even went to trial after a judge this week dismissed claims from two premium users who maintained the company failed to provide the level of data security outlined in its privacy policy. Read more »

Google today revealed - if in vague terms - it last year received less than 1,000 "national Security letters" from federal authorities seeking financial and communications data on up to almost 2,000 individuals. The disclosure of such government requests marks a first for a major Internet service provider. Read more »

Researchers have found an earlier version of the MiniDuke espionage malware that dates to June 2011 - almost a year ahead of the previously oldest variant designed to spy on NATO, European governments and U.S. research and think tanks. Unlike the cyberspyware discovered last week, this one embedded  a U.S. Navy clock, not one running on Chinese time. Read more »

On Thursday the Chinese government, long considered the aggressor in highly publicized U.S. cyberattacks, publicly spoke about being the victim. Two of its military Web sites were attacked an average of 144,000 per month and two-thirds of those strikes came from the United States, according to a ministry spokesman. Read more »

Researchers on Tuesday said they have proof the Stuxnet worm used to cripple Iran's nuclear program has been in the wild two years longer than first believed. There's also now evidence the military-grade malware's origins date back to 2005, and possibly earlier. Read more »

The entertainment industry is teaming with five major Internet service providers to this week launch a new Copyright Alert System that will first warn online pirates and then start to strangle bandwidth of repeat offenders.

Dubbed "Six Strikes," the new system began roll out Monday, putting consumers on notice that content owners would be monitoring for illegal downloading or uploading of copyrighted movies, music and televsion shows and notifying participating ISPs such actvitity is detected. Read more »

Various news outlets reported late Friday that Microsoft's public cloud storage service suffered a global outage due to a lapsed security certificate.

Beginning around 4 p.m. EST, developers and other Azure customers began being blocked from accessing files. Read more »

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year -- one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy & Research. Read more »

A non-profit association for IT professionals in higher education announced Tuesday its server had been breached.

Educause, which has 1,800 college and 300 corporate members, issued a warning that it had discovered a security breach sometime in February that may have compromised the hashed passwords of .edu domain holders and urged impacted administrative, billing or technical contacts to change their passwords. Read more »

A former Minnesota state employee was charged Thursday with misdemeanors for allegedly accessing thousands of driver's licenses during a four-year period and storing 172 of them in an encrypted file. Ninety percent of victims in the data breach were women.

John A. Hunt, 48, of Woodbury, Minn., faces six misdemeanors, including misconduct by a public employee and unauthorized computer access. He is accused of illegally querying the state Driver and Vehicle Services database more than 19,000 times between 2008 and last October. If convicted, he could receive up to a year in jail and $3,000 in fines. Read more »