Wouldn’t you think Al Gore would have better online security? A blog set up to promote former U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, has been hacked and is hosting links to Web sites hawking online pharmaceuticals. The links appear to have been created as part of a scheme to boost the Web…

Cyber Monday is the first day that many people return to their computers after the Thanksgiving Day weekend and buy stuff online. With a holiday season that is expected to be the weakest since 2002, and numbers of new online customers leveling off, more Web retailers have been pushing special offers and promotions to draw…

EEP! Mozilla has taken another security blow with the discovery that Google user accounts can be accessed through a dangerous Firefox exploit. The vulnerability, which is still in the wild some 10 days after its discovery on gnucitizen.org, allows hackers to access Google accounts, including Gmail, with cross-site scripting attacks. A client or server-side exploit…

Internet prostitution: The world’s oldest profession is going high-tech and prostitutes are now soliciting their customers over the internet. A DeKalb County prosecutor said that this new method is making it tougher to make arrests. Solicitor Robert James said the problem is spiraling out of control, in part, because the website content is federally protected.…

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