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(AP) — Dozens of people have been charged with forming a prolific identity theft ring that used thousands of stolen credit card numbers to shop at Apple stores around the country, according to a court document and a law enforcement official. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, [...]

Google yesterday shifted Chrome 6 into beta, a move that puts the browser one step closer to a stable release. Chrome 6 — specifically version 6.0.472.33 — includes speed and stability improvements, Google said, as well as a tweaked user interface and enhanced synchronization of bookmarks, passwords and other data among machines running the browser. [...]

IBM announced it has added capabilities for Web application protection and data-loss prevention (DLP) to the basic technology platform for its intrusion-system prevention (IPS) product line. The IBM IPS 4.1 platform is a free software upgrade for the vast majority of IBM’s network IPS appliances, approximately 16 in all, that range from 800M to 12GBps [...]

(AP) — A new program being spearheaded by Microsoft Corp. is designed to provide a trusted way for researchers to report stolen credit card numbers and other data they’ve found in the dark corners of the Internet. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in U.S. history. Sergey Valeryevich Storchark was one of 11 men charged in August 2008 with hacking into nine U.S. retailers and selling tens of millions of credit card numbers. He was arrested in India earlier this week, according [...]

Another credit card belonging to a Blippy user could be found in Google search Saturday, and the company said it had asked Google to re-index its entire site. Silicon Alley Insider noticed that a site search of Blippy.com with the query “outstanding” turned up the debit card number of a Blippy user, a day after [...]

A series of gaffes at Blippy, Google, and a Midwest bank exposed the credit card numbers of four individuals within Google search results for more than two months. Friday was easily the worst day in the history of Blippy, a young start-up that enables people to create social networks around sharing information on goods and [...]