Information Protection and Security

Mozilla has responded to enhanced privacy settings in rival browsers from Microsoft, Apple and Google with new privacy features of its own.
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Facebook has launched a beta test of new privacy control features in Publisher that give users more control over who sees what they post to their page.
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Pharmacy giant to pay penalties for mishandling customer data, violating HIPAA regulations.
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 A fake Twitter site at tvviter.com (note the two 'v' instead of 'w' and 'ter' instead of 'tter') is trying to steal your Twitter logon credentials. Twitter accounts are being used to lure users to the site. 
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User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said.

Concerned that Google knows too much about you? The company provides many ways to protect your privacy online -- you just need to find them. Here are six good ones.
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The attack comes to you in your Facebook inbox as a terse message with a link in it. Click on the link and you are prompted to log in to a fake Facebook login page. Log in and the attackers have your credentials, which they then use to pass the attack on to everyone in your Friends list.
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The popularity of social networking sites--such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and others--has exploded in recent years, with usage in the United States increasing 93% since 2006, according to Netpop Research.  The sites are popular not only with teenagers, but with adults as well: the number of adult Internet users having a social networking profile has more than quadrupled in the past four years, according the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Top 10 Ways to Stay Safe on Facebook.