The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Florida man with breaking into accounts at Charles Schwab, E-Trade, JPMorgan, and other online brokerages. He's said to have made more than $82,000 from liquidating the accounts to fund a stock scam. ...

More than 90% of 1,700 consumers surveyed in eight countries say they'd use authentication technologies beyond standard user names and passwords for stronger online banking security, according to EMC's RSA security unit, which conducted the survey. ...

Apple has patched the QuickTime vulnerability that was the debut flaw in a researcher's Month of Apple Bugs project. The patch comes 23 days after the researcher, known as "LMH," posted the flaw and proof-of-concept code. ...

Just days before Microsoft is set to unveil the retail version of Windows Vista, a group of competing tech companies revealed that they filed a complaint with the European Commission in December charging that some features of the operating system violate European antitrust laws. ...

It didn't take long for police to track down 14 cell phones stolen from the public works department of the Town of Babylon, N.Y. The phones' GPS capabilities, which were used to track the department's trucks, led police right to the suspects' home, a half-mile from where the phones were taken.