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The Obama administration is backing $675,000 in damages a Massachusetts student must pay the Recording Industry Association of America for file sharing 30 songs. The Justice Department, where President Barack Obama has tapped five former RIAA lawyers to serve, said copyright infringement “creates a public harm that Congress determined must be deterred.” The administration’s court filing Tuesday is the latest in the case of Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University graduate student who was the nation’s second defendant to go to trial against the RIAA on file sharing charges. Most of the 30,000 civil cases the music industry has brought have settled out of court. After the July verdict in a Boston federal court, Tenenbaum’s... 

A Fight Identity Theft visitor forwarded this email to us today and it was so creative I just had to post it here. The email supposedly comes from Robert Mueller - the current head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. Not only was it sent by the FBI, the scammers try to get you to believe it's been vetted by the Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division. Unbelievable. Why Do They Send These Emails? What they're really after is the fee they want you to pay in order to collect your $850,000 - that's why they call this an "advanced-fee fraud." The fee is sent by money order which makes it very difficult to trace and impossible to recover. Here's the money paragraph: This letter will serve... 

Medicare fraud is on the rise and senior citizens are getting the tools to do their part to combat the thieves. read more  

So you received a data breach notification in the mail… no big deal, right? Not according to Javelin Strategy & Research’s latest report. read more  

Federal prosecutors dropped a Felony Hacking charge Thursday against a Defense Department intelligence analyst who was accused of poking around in a system being used for a ‘national terrorism investigation’. He instead plead guilty to a misdemeanor, thus making prison time highly unlikely. Montgomery held a top secret clearance while working on a covert program at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — the spy agency in charge of satellite and aerial image collection. On April 9, while stationed at an NGA facility on Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia, the 10-year agency veteran saw a message that “provided significant detail about a classified operation” that was unrelated to his job, according... 

Ben Bernanke is a victim of identity theft. This is proof positive that it can happen to anyone. read more 

Let us help you learn how to tame these mysterious and pernicious cookies. read more 

The president's new BlackBerry is a special modified variation with top-notch encryption features, but is it really safe? Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick says that despite its special security features, no BlackBerry is impossible to compromise. read more