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FTC echoes public siren call for De-Personalized Web

, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [1]

This week it's been made plain over and over again that the FTC is setting in motion the cogs which will eventually show the "Do Not Track" machine that the public has been waiting for since it became common knowledge that everyone is, indeed, being tracked basically all the time while online. The Federal Trade Commission's paper also echoes the White House call from a month ago to bring a new law into order which would serve as a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. This bill of rights will be the first giant blow against a vast undertaking created by several of the larger ad-slinging sites on the web which would have the common citizen's online actions tracked every second of every day in order to provide them with what's called, again, a "personalized experience." Read The Full Story

FTC Do Not Track paper suffers “opt-in” concern

, Mar 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

The FTC has released a paper this week which outlines how they'll be approaching a more private internet by the end of the year, the actions in this paper being approved by three out of four FTC Commissioners, Thomas Rosch being the most vocal of them all. As the lone FTC Commissioner who voted against the methods they'll be using throughout the year to ramp up to a "Do Not Track" button for web users by the end of 2012, Rosch made sure to be very clear on why he released a paper aside from the main announcement, saying "[it goes] well beyond what Congress has permitted the commission to do." Read The Full Story

Lookout Mobile analyzes cost of lost phones

, Mar 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Did you know that in the US in 2011, on average, a mobile phone was lost every 3.5 seconds? More than 9 million people went through that gut-wrenching experience of realizing they left their phone in a cab, at a bar (including one iPhone 4 prototype), on the plane, or at an ex-girlfriend's house...the list goes on and on. Mobile security company Lookout Mobile crunched the numbers and projected that in 2012, the value of lost phones will total an astonishing $30 billion. Read The Full Story

RIM says no to BlackBerry PlayBook jailbreaking

, Mar 21st 2012 Discuss [8]

RIM addressed its stance and future policy on BlackBerry PlayBook jailbreaking in a post to the company's blog today, officially confirming that jailbreaking the PlayBook would void its warranty. RIM's opposition to customers using jailbreak tools, such as DingleBerry, isn't surprising, but it also outlined a policy of continually and aggressively patching any root access exploits. Read The Full Story

Anonymous takes down Vatican website

, Mar 7th 2012 Discuss [1]

Notorious hacker group Anonymous has taken down the Vatican's website today in an attack against the scandals and conservative doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The Italian branch of the hacker group claimed responsibility for the breach and even posted a statement listing the Church's misdeeds throughout history. Read The Full Story

NASA admits to being hacked 13 times last year

, Mar 2nd 2012 Discuss [1]

Even high-tech NASA isn't impervious to hackers. The space agency reported to Congress this week that it had been hacked a total of 13 times last year, including one China-based attack that gained complete access and control of mission critical systems as well as employee accounts. The revelation comes as Congress debates two competing cyber-security bills to boost the government's defenses against cyber attacks. Read The Full Story

Android apps flaw also allows photo snooping

, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [2]

Earlier this week, it was uncovered that iOS apps had a glitch that gave app developers access to users' photos once they allow an app to access their location information. Now a new investigation launched by the NY Times has discovered that a similar snooping can happen on Android, where third-party developers also have access to users' photos without explicitly asking for permission. Read The Full Story

iOS loophole lets developers access all your photos

, Feb 28th 2012 Discuss [19]

Apple may soon have to fight the flames of another privacy-related controversy, this time involving a loophole in their iOS apps that allows developers access to users’ photos. There’s already been controversy over iOS apps accessing users’ address books without permission, but now it appears the situation is actually much worse. The apps can also secretly access users’ photos and upload them to a remote server once users allow apps permission to their location information.

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Anonymous takes credit for crashing CIA website

, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [1]

Notorious hacker group Anonymous is claiming credit for taking down the CIA's website today, which went offline for about an hour. A public website for the state of Alabama was also knocked down by hackers today, says a state official. Read The Full Story

NASA, Pentagon hacker arrested in Romania

, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [8]

Police in Romania have arrested hacker TinKode, who is notorious for hacking into US military and government websites. The 20-year-old IT student, Razvan Manole Cernaianu, was accused of breaking into NASA and Pentagon servers, stealing confidential information, and then posting it on his personal blog. Read The Full Story

Symantec says pcAnywhere safe again with new security patch

, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Symantec has released a security patch for its pcAnywhere application, declaring it now safe to use again. The patch follows Symantec's warning last week for all users to disable the product after the company discovered that the source code had been stolen back in 2006, meaning users were at greater risk of being hacked. Read The Full Story

Symantec: Android Market having its largest malware infection ever

, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [22]

Virus detection and security group Symantec has today reported that a bug by the name of Android.Counterclank has infected between 1 million and 5 million Android users as of this afternoon. This bit of software sits on a handful of easily downloadable applications available on the Android Market as of late today and each has been downloaded several hundred times at least, with some ranging in the thousands. This Android.Counterclank has the highest distribution of any malware identified inside 2012 and may well be the largest infection on Android in its short history. Read The Full Story
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