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InternetNews January 13, 2010	Facebook and McAfee Join in Security Push Partnership offers free trial and discounted security software offer for Facebook users.
InternetNews January 13, 2010	Hackers Eye BlackBerry Messenger The omnipresent Research In Motion BlackBerry is an enticing target for evildoers - no wonder, then, that McAfee is warning about a new threat making the rounds.
Popular Mechanics January 13, 2010 Glenn Derene	Why China Needs Google More Than Google Needs China Yesterday Google announced that Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents had been hacked as part of a broad spying operation apparently tied to the Chinese government.
InternetNews January 12, 2010	Who Were the Big Names in Spam Bait in 2009? McAfee report highlights the Top 25 men and women used as bait in spam mail in 2009.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Baidu Hacked! The Chinese search-engine giant is down but not out.
InternetNews January 11, 2010	Zuckerberg Defends Facebook's Privacy Approach The social networking phenom has come under fire for recent changes to its privacy settings. Facebook's CEO offers some insight on what it was thinking.
InternetNews January 5, 2010	Hacker Hits Eastern Washington University Colleges continue to be popular targets for hackers, with another 130,000 student records exposed.
PHONE+ January 5, 2010	The FTC Takes on the Cloud The Federal Trade Commission is urging the FCC to take into account the privacy and security concerns it has regarding cloud services when the FCC presents its recommendations for a national broadband policy next month.
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Susan Karlin	Book: The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement Is Facebook making us narcissists? Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell explore this idea in their new book.
InternetNews December 31, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Where is Net Privacy Headed in 2010? What does the federal government have in mind when it comes to issues of Internet privacy?
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