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Prosecutor: Cloud computing is security's frontier

FORT BAKER, Calif.--As data moves to the cloud, attackers and thieves will follow, a federal prosecutor said on Friday.

The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs are numbered as companies increasingly distribute software and store data online via hosted computing services, Matthew Parrella, an assistant U.S. attorney based in San Jose, Calif., said at Symantec's Norton Cyber Crime Day.

"That model of importation of software is becoming obsolete because we're seeing on the horizon cloud computing where so many of these operations are pushed from a user'… Read more

Web suicide watchers tough to prosecute

A teenager lay dying in bed after swallowing a lethal does of narcotics while his suicide attempt is broadcasted to the Web. A group of concerned viewers attempted to intervene by alerting the authorities. Others however prodded the teen to take his own life with messages such as "do it."

Authorities in Pembroke Pines, Fla., are now trying to determine whether any of the people who encouraged the teen to kill himself violated Florida law, according to several reports. The incident began last week when the 19-year-old man Webcasted himself on Justin.TV and posted a message at … Read more

Google caught by surprise in Italian video case

Google's recent legal woes in Italy caught the Internet search giant by surprise, according a company statement Monday.

The search giant apparently was unaware that prosecutors in Milan had made a decision to move forward with defamation and breach of privacy charges against four current and former Google officials, until published reportsbegan to surface late last week.

Italian prosecutors are reportedly planning to formally charge the individuals, after a two-year investigation into third parties posting video onto its site that showed a teen with Down syndrome taunted by a group of other teens.

Google, in a statement, said: … Read more