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Judge bashes warrantless cellphone tracking
Tower data protected by Fourth Amendment
A federal magistrate has ruled that information pulled from cellphone towers provides such an intimate portrait of a customer's life that government investigators must get a warrant before obtaining it.…
Fake TweetDeck update lures prompt password resets
Are UK hackers behind Trojan horse attack?
Compromised Twitter accounts have been used to post links to an exploit portal that poses as a download site for an update to TweetDeck, the popular micro-blogging client software package.…
Crooks said swiped church funds were for sex crime victims
It was simply resting in their account
Scammers who made off with $600,000 after breaking into the bank account of a Catholic diocese claim the funds have been earmarked for the victims of paedophile priests.…
Scotch tape maker buys biometric tech firm
Wrap up
Updated Industrial conglomerate 3M has agree to buy biometric security firm Cogent Systems in a deal valued at $943m.…