Privacy

Encrypted? Check. Strong passphrase? Check. Mailing them together? Oops.

February 3rd, 2012

 - Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.

Anonymous spies on FBI / UK Police hacking investigation conference call

February 3rd, 2012

 - A recording of a confidential conference call between the FBI and UK law enforcement officers at the Metropolitan Police has been released by Anonymous on the internet. (continue reading...)

Over 1000 email addresses exposed by Metropolitan Police blunder

February 2nd, 2012

 - 1136 victims of crime have had their email addresses inadvertently shared with one another, according to reports.

Mac FileVault 2′s full disk encryption can be broken in less than 40 minutes

February 2nd, 2012

 - A company claims it can bypass Apple's FileVault 2 disk encryption "in minutes," as well as volumes encrypted with TrueCrypt.

Facebook’s IPO could result in increased focus on stopping fraud and spam

February 1st, 2012

 - Facebook has finally filed for its IPO, but there are interesting details in the paperwork. It considers malware, spam and privacy concerns as serious risks to its investors. (continue reading...)

Whistleblowers charge FDA with spying on personal email

February 1st, 2012

 - Six scientists and doctors filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week for secretly monitoring their personal email accounts.

How to navigate Google’s privacy options

January 30th, 2012

 - Google is rolling out a new privacy policy on March 1st, 2012. In this article I sum up the changes and provide information on how to control your Google privacy settings. (continue reading...)

The FBI vs the FTC: the battle for user privacy in social media

January 30th, 2012

 - An interesting juxtaposition: the FBI's quest for a social media data mining application vs. the FTC taking Facebook and Google to task over privacy transgressions. Should the agencies settle it via Jello wrestling? (continue reading...)

Poll reveals widespread concern over Facebook Timeline

January 27th, 2012

 - Over 50% of people polled said they are worried about the Facebook Timeline.

But will it be the catalyst for people to leave the site?

US Police use games consoles in crime investigations

January 26th, 2012

 - Police in the US use XBox 360 and PS3s as key parts of investigations. With police now cooperating more closely with companies like Microsoft, is it time to ask for greater transparency about their relationships? (continue reading...)

Opinion: Google’s privacy change – evil or business as usual?

January 26th, 2012

 - Google says it will start tracking us across all its services - Gmail, Search, YouTube, etc. - and that it will share data on our activity across all of them. Does it put into question (continue reading...)

Sophos Security Threat Report 2012 – seeing through the hype

January 25th, 2012

 - We know you're probably sceptical of "state of the world" reports from vendors. For all you can tell, they'll turn out to be thinly-digsuised advertorial, unreconstructed product brochures, or worse.

We like to do (continue reading...)

Is your smartphone telling every website you visit your telephone number?

January 25th, 2012

 - O2 mobile users in the UK are venting on Twitter today, fuming at their discovery that their phone number is being shared with every website that they visit over the network.

But users of other mobile (continue reading...)

Hacking boardroom videoconferencing systems

January 25th, 2012

 - Videoconferencing equipment is often left wide open for hackers to creep in and peep around organizations.

Is the AnonyUpload file-sharing website for real?

January 24th, 2012

 - In a bizarre marketing move, AnonyUpload explains why it's rubbish and that it's not a replacement for MegaUpload.

SSCC 81 – NCSA and Data Privacy Day

January 23rd, 2012

 - Chet sits down with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to discuss Data Privacy Day. Michael explains the origin of Data Privacy Day, some of the activities related to it (continue reading...)

I’ll show you my password, if you’ll show me yours

January 20th, 2012

 - On the heels of the Zappos cyber robbery last Sunday that left 24M customers fretting over stolen passwords and email addresses, articles are being (continue reading...)

Hacker exposes Grindr users’ intimate information and explicit photos

January 20th, 2012

 - A popular smartphone app used by the gay community to hook-up with similarly-minded people in their vicinity suffers from a serious security vulnerability that could expose personal information and explicit photos that they have been (continue reading...)

Passwords, passphrases, and big numbers: first the good news…

January 17th, 2012

 - Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some (continue reading...)

Social media, the ultimate career-squasher

January 16th, 2012

 - A new survey finds that 56% are likely to check out the social media profiles of potential employees.

If you want to avoid limiting your career progression, it might be time to clean-up your social networking (continue reading...)

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