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The FBI has shut down part of the commercial e-mail system it uses to receive tips from, and communicate with, the public as a precautionary measure because of a security breach, CBS News has learned.

The Bureau says none of the computers potentially affected were part of its overall information technology system and no sensitive information was exposed.

posted by mt at 11:36

An interesting piece in Wired on how the underground movie/music scene operates.

Anathema is a so-called topsite, one of 30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames available on the Internet originate. Outside of a pirate elite and the Feds who track them, few know that topsites exist. Even fewer can log in.

posted by mt at 17:18

Is anyone starting to wonder if Tmobile has a serious security breach? Link.

Poor Paris Hilton doesn’t have too much luck when it comes to privacy issues. The partying heiress has been the victim of a hacker who somehow got access to her Blackberry and was reading her private e-mails, says a source.

posted by mt at 13:04