Mozilla has said that the next Firefox update, Firefox 3.1, will include private searching, similar to Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. Read more

New York City has announced that the city’s 911 and 311 hotlines will now accept images and videos from people’s cell phones. Read more

Google announced today that it will divide the amount of time before it anonymizes users’ data in half, meaning your search data will now only be associated with your IP address for nine months before being made anonymous. Read more

What would happen if the FBI launched it’s own MySpace? Well, we’re about to find out. Read more

A French court has approved the extradition of UK hacker Gary McKinnon to the U.S. Read more

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima. Read more

The FAA said that most flights around the country were back to normal Wednesday, after a software malfunction delayed hundreds of flights on Tuesday. Read more

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. Read more

Air traffic at some major U. Read more

Pittsburg (PA) - A new software released as a browser plug-in by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering provides an additional layer of security to warn users of potential eavesdropping when connections to secure websites are established. Read more

The self-professed “librarian” of a global Internet child abuse ring has been issued with an an indeterminate sentence based on a minimum of three years and nine months. Following this period Phillip Thompson will be eligible for parole. Read more

Orlando (FL) - Some high tech crooks had the gall to plant a not-so-hidden camera in a Wal-Mart store. Read more

Facebook has found itself in more trouble stemming from its controversial Beacon advertisment system, this time in the form of a class-action suit Read more

A Connecticut man was sentenced to seven years in jail for scamming nearly half a million dollars out of AOL users. Read more

A former prosecutor working on the case of UK hacker, Gary McKinnon has said that the alleged cyber criminal is “grasping at straws” and that his extradition to the US is imminent. Read more