Just last week Mat Honan, a journalist for Wired, had his digital life destroyed by hackers taking control of his Amazon and Apple accounts. Now Amazon has closed the hole that led to the attack. More...

A teacher's aide was fired due to content on her Facebook and refusing to give her Facebook password to her employer, now she's embroiled in a legal battle with the school district. More...

Students at a high school in Brooklyn, New York, have been told to delete their Facebook accounts due to a breach of the school's policy. More...

A group of regulators in Europe has requested Google put the enforcement of its new privacy policies on hold until it investigates whether the policies truly protect the personal info for users. More...

The Mountain View based search giant is moving to unify its service policy soon, which is great news for simplification of the services they offer. However, it may not be as good as it sounds. More...

If you are looking to create applications for Microsoft's Windows 8 application store, Microsoft has provided a bit of light on how the approval process will work. More...

Apple has officially announced today that it is back tracking on its previous statement of not allowing third party tools. Apple has specifically stated that they are relaxing their rules to allow for third party... More...

Google has announced a number of changes to their privacy policy, making them more simplified and removing some of the complicated "lawyer" terminology. In a post on the official Google blog, Mike Yang, Google's Associate General... More...

Neowin reported earlier today that, an annoyed Carbonite customer who wanted to write reviews in Amazon.com regarding his experiences with Carbonite, found out that the high level employees of carbonite gave positive product reviews disguised... More...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a U.S nonprofit legal organization, has sent a letter to White House Counsel demanding the reason for exempting third party cookies from WhiteHouse.gov's privacy policy. The White House website's privacy... More...

Just when you think eBay is done infuriating longtime users across the world, the auction site keeps cranking out the hits. You almost have to admire the steadfast dedication – that ability to bear 'mid... More...

More than 2,000 people who oversee the workings of the net around the world are gathering in Brazil. Policy makers, activists and officials are gathering in Rio de Janeiro for the second Internet Governance... More...

Heres your chance to make a difference in the way Group Policies are setup in future versions of Windows, the Group Policy team has setup a survey that targets IT admins specifically that use Group... More...

Elements of Google's privacy policy are "vague" and need to be made more precise, the firm's global privacy counsel has told BBC News. Peter Fleischer said the company "could do better" with policy statements... More...

A European Commission advisory group, composed of representatives from all of the European Union countries, sent Google a letter expressing concern over Google's new privacy policy announced in March. The issue surrounds Google's policy of... More...

Auction website eBay has apologised for not giving sellers enough notice about changing the default settings for the 'simple search' on ebay.com. Until recently, items put up for sale by eBay customers on the UK... More...

A senior executive for Microsoft has said the firm could pull out of non-democratic countries such as China. Fred Tipson, senior policy counsel for the computer giant, said concerns over the repressive regime... More...

China has reaffirmed its position onpolicing its citizens' usage of the internet following Wednesdays Congressionalquestioning of technology giants Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Yahoo Inc.,and Google Inc. The House of Representatives International Relations subcommitteebecame interested... More...

The state of Massachusetts will require that by 2007 all documents produced by the state's executive branch must be stored in a new universal format. The policy change, which will require modifications to software running... More...

This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files that shipped with Windows XP SP2. This includes all policy settings supported on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows... More...

Windows XP SP2 provides more than 600 new Group Policy settings to help administrators manage policy settings related to Windows Firewall, Internet Explorer, Internet Communication Management, Automatic Updates, security, Terminal Services, user profiles, and other... More...

This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files shipped with Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 1. This includes all policy settings supported on Windows... More...

A group of companies, including AT&T, MCI, Intel and Texas Instruments, banded together this week in an effort to influence VoIP regulation and policy making. Calling itself the Voice on the Net (VON)... More...

Overview This spreadsheet lists the full set of Group Policy settings described in Administrative Template (.adm) files shipped with Windows Server 2003. This includes all policy settings supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional... More...

Microsoft will release a series of security patches after midnight tonight in line with its new policy of releasing patches on a monthly schedule. Industry sources anticipate the disclosure of multiple... More...

Blaster attacks could prompt default enablement of automated updates. In the wake of recent widespread worm attacks on the Internet, Microsoft is considering taking an unprecedented step: making automatic download and installation... More...

Big thanks goes out to jessejlt for pointing out this update by Slashdot: The post to Politech says the songs would "disappear," not be deleted; from the context, it seems they were merely... More...

So far, corporate has yet to weigh in on its growing cadre of bloggers. But that may be about to change. Despite the fact that more and more Microsoft employees have jumped... More...

Quick Info File Name: gpmc.msi - Download Size: 4554 KB - Date Published: 4/7/2003 - Version: 1.0 Overview GPMC simplifies the management of Group Policy by making it easier... More...

Group Policy Management Console has reached its final beta stages. Today the Release Candidate (build 3788) was posted on betaplace.com Microsoft plans to RTW (Release to web) early april. The Microsoft Group... More...

Who should read this bulletin: System administrators using Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000, the latter especially in a domain controller role. Impact of vulnerability: Modify group policy. Maximum Severity Rating:... More...

The Beta 2 release of the Microsoft Group Policy Management Console ("GPMC") unifies management of Group Policy across the enterprise. It integrates all existing Group Policy-management functionality that is available in the Microsoft Windows 2000... More...

Amazon.com agreed this week to make changes to its privacy policy after coming under scrutiny from consumers and regulators who claimed that the e-commerce giant did not adequately protect customer data. In a... More...

Found this over on NewOrder... Hotmail users can now get a better look at their personal account settings -- but some of the service's estimated 110 million active users may not like what they... More...

Thanks Grappa for the heads up. UPDATE: Web portal Yahoo has revised its privacy policy to more clearly describe how personal data will be treated in certain circumstances, company executives said. ... More...

Thanks for the heads up babis Microsoft has released a tool that can be used by system administrators to stop the SNMP service if it is running, and disable it so that it... More...

US consumer activist Ralph Nader has opened a new front in his war on Microsoft - tax fiddling. In a letter sent to Bill Gates on Friday, Nader and James Love, the director of Nader's... More...

Saw this one doing the rounds, so I thought, why not post! thanks WinOSCentral for the heads up. America Online yesterday denied that it is forcing members with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system to upgrade... More...

This may be old news, but I'll post anyway! A recent addition to America Online's privacy policy clears the way for the company to use online tracking tools, including cookies and Web... More...