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• Hacked Climate Change E-mails Highlight Security Concerns In the heat of the climate change debate sparked by hacked e-mail messages, there has been little discussion of how the e-mails were leaked. In a connected world, security and privacy are both more important, and harder to come by.
• Sidekick Users Get Their Data Back, But Lawsuits Loom Microsoft says users will be getting their contact info and other personal data back again -- but Sidekick lawsuits are now under way in California and Washington.
• Microsoft Says It Can Restore T-Mobile Sidekick Data Microsoft/Danger is now saying that it can restore users' data from the Sidekick/Hiptop debacle — that's despite it saying over the weekend that it was nearly impossible.
• Your Data Is More Delicate Than You Think Data disasters at Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook all in the same week mean one thing: Your data — and the Net itself — are a lot more fragile than you may realize.
• Sidekick Data Loss: T-Mobile's Unending Nightmare Things just keep getting worse for T-Mobile and Microsoft's Danger cloud computing service.
• Microsoft Red-Faced After Massive Sidekick Data Loss T-Mobile and Microsoft subsidiary Danger say some customers lost personal information tied to their Sidekick smartphones.
• 7 Ways Tech Pros Fail on Security Too many security professionals don't practice what they preach when it comes to basic data security precautions.
• Meet Google's 'Data Liberation Front' Google has announced a "Data Liberation Front" designed to make it easier for you to reclaim your data from the company's Web-based services.
• 7 Backup Strategies for Your Data, Multimedia, and System Files Nobody likes backing up, but one day, it’ll save your bacon. Here are the most efficient methods of protecting your stuff, no matter what your situation.
• Learning From the Heartland Credit Card Breach How does the massive credit card breach compare with past cases, and what can you do to protect yourself?
• The Law Can't Keep Up with Technology Analysis: Yesterday's rulings against RealDVD and Microsoft Word reinforce a painful truth of our times.
• Online Backups Save Up-Front Hardware Costs Mozy charges monthly for licenses and storage space versus paying thousands up-front.
• Cooling Data Centers: Not Green, Not Needed Servers, storage, and networking gear are often certified to stand high temperatures, so a 68-degree habitat is unnecessary today, expert says.
• Google Outage Lesson: Don't Get Stuck in a Cloud All (eventually) ended well with Google's service interruption, but it's a reminder to take charge of your data.
• Will Your Data Disappear When Your Online Storage Site Shuts Down? Dying storage dot-coms can make precious images or business data vanish overnight. Here's how to protect yourself.
• Most Claims Dismissed in Hannaford Data Breach Suit All but one of the legal claims filed against Hannaford Bros., the Maine-based retailer that suffered a security breach exposing some four million credit cards, have been dismissed.
• Sync Two PCs Matt Gohring has a laptop and a desktop, and he needs to keep his documents synchronized between them.
• Heartland Comes Out Swinging After Data Breach In the months following the disclosure of what may be the largest data breach in US history, Heartland's CEO has been pointing the finger at the payment industry.
• UC Berkeley Hit With Major Data Theft Tens of thousands of current and former students have been impacted by a massive security breach.
• Use the Internet, Lose your Privacy From a lack of legal protection to unknown security controls, an excellent essay covers just how far we have to go for real online privacy.
• Go Phish! How to Guard Your Privacy on Facebook Concerned about keeping control of your personal information? Use this guide to bolster your security settings at Facebook now.
• Panda Security Protects PCs with a Free, Cloud-Based Antivirus Tool Antivirus protection moves off individual PCs and into a network cluster for cheaper, better protection.
• One Third of Employees Would Steal Sensitive Data One third of employees admit, if given a chace, they would steal sensitive company data.
• Security Pro to Companies: Assume You're Owned The smart business will assume it has been invaded and seek out the intruders, says a hacker expert.
• Facebook Opens the Polls for Privacy Policy Vote Facebook opens its virtual polls for privacy policy vote in social network's first test of digital democracy.