Personal Details Of Facebook Users Published Online

An Internet security consultant has collected and published the personal details of 100 million Facebook users. Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings. The list contains the URL of every searchable Facebook user's profile, their name and unique ID. Bowes said he published the data to highlight privacy issues, but ...

Ex-security guard is charged with making bomb threats to Secaucus NBA office

file photoNBA logo. SECAUCUS The former security guard charged today with making repeated bomb threats to the Secaucus offices of the National Basketball Association had used his personal cell phone, creating a path for the FBI to nab him,...

Social Security time line

Friday, July 30, 2010 New York Times Social Security time line Aug. 14, 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, the nation's first major antipoverty insurance program providing benefits to older Americans. 1939 Ida May Fuller, above, of Ludlow, Vt., becomes the first retiree to receive a monthly Social Security check. Social Security is expanded to provide benefits to ...

Nervous About Social Security? Better Prepare Now

If the government has to change Social Security, people may need to put aside a lot more money to make up for any reduction in benefits.

Personal data 'left open to frauds'

The security of personal information held by the state government is inadequate, leaving it at an increased risk of being stolen and misused by frauds, a report has found.