Wagner Resource Corp. recently learned the hard way what Pfizer Inc. and many other companies have similarly discovered in the past: installing peer-to-peer file-sharing software on corporate ...

The Washington Post published an alarming story today about the risk to company computer networks from employees who visit file sharing sites to acquire music, software or videos for personal use.

The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

Dean Hendrix, senior assistant librarian for the Health Sciences Library, leads workshops on the topic of peer-to-peer file sharing for the Teaching and Learning Center. Yes, in file-sharing ...

The federal agency says drivers license numbers, social security numbers and other information useful to identity thieves have been compromised unintentionally by 100 American corporations, some of ...

In the letters, the FTC warned schools, businesses and local governments that widespread data leaks occurred after their employees swapped music via P2P networks, which exposed copious personal ...

Tiversa, a security company based in Cranberry Township, Pa., reported that a security breach last summer exposed military information to an IP address in Tehran, Iran, that included engineering ...

Microsoft recently released software tools for Windows XP that are intended to encourage the creation of P2P applications. The software development kit also offers an update to Windows XP that ...

A new Web log is posting what it purports are pictures, documents and letters from U.S. soldiers and military bases in Iraq and elsewhere--all of which the site's operator claims to have downloaded ...

In the first case of its kind in the United States, federal authorities have arrested a Seattle man on charges of committing identity theft and fraudulent online transactions using personal ...