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 ...

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 ...

Corporate and government documents containing confidential and sometimes classified data are increasingly getting exposed through the use of peer-to-peer networks on computers holding the sensitive ...

half the normal price, from its Web site. Lindows has been targeting consumers with its packaged version of the open-source Linux operating system, which has a reputation of being geared more for ...

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 ...

· Require the education secretary to annually identify the 25 colleges and universities that have in the previous year received the most notices of copyright violations using institutional technology ...

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 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 ...

Worldwide, file-sharing rates account for as much as 70 percent of Internet traffic. BitTorrent co-founder Ashwin Navin said the outlook for peer-to-peer is positive. “There’s a bright future for P2P ...

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.

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 ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology, which allows users to ‘share’ many types of files seamlessly over a decentralised network that is keyword-searchable, has been seen as a major source of ...