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 ...

Opening arguments begin today at the Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster, a case that pits two powerful groups against each other: MGM and a coalition of major music companies on the one side, and ...

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.

This month's column was triggered by a number of separate news articles that have come across my desk in the last two months. Taken together, they show, I believe, trends emerging in the battle that ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...