A security industry blog warned on Friday of a potentially “massive” data breach affecting as many as 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts.
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FTC Releases Online Privacy Report: Does It Go Too Far? Not Far Enough?
The Federal Trade Commission just released a kind of online privacy mission statement in the form of a 112-page document that calls on companies to pledge support for consumer privacy-bolstering policies. Employing the vernacular …
You’d Need 76 Work Days to Read All Your Privacy Policies Each Year
The problem with privacy on the Internet isn’t so much that companies don’t provide privacy options or tell you that they might share your data, it’s that protecting your privacy often entails wandering the wilds of Facebook’s …
Alleged LulzSec Hackers Arrested as Leader Turns Snitch
Lulz Security, a hacking group that stole data from law enforcement, defaced the websites of major publications and published troves of user names and passwords from online services, has suffered a critical blow at the hands of …
Michael Jackson’s Back Catalog Downloaded by Hackers?
Hackers reportedly made off with Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog during a raid on Sony Music’s servers last year.
Although Sony won’t say how many tracks or what material was stolen, Fox News reports that hackers …
Android and iPhone Photo Snooping: What You Need to Know
Wikileaks Begins Publishing ‘Millions’ of Stolen Stratfor Emails
Out of the frying pan, into the fire: Global intelligence firm Stratfor may have secured its perimeters after its servers were infiltrated late last year, but a mammoth email dump just hit the grid courtesy Wikileaks.
In …
Coming Soon: Privacy Warnings on Mobile Apps
Thanks to the state of California, smartphone apps will soon have to tell you in advance what they plan to do with your personal data.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris reached an agreement with Apple, Google, …
Steam Hack Worse than Thought…Three Months Later
Is this how you allay customer anxiety — by drizzling information about your service’s security problems?
Valve’s Steam gaming service forums were hacked in early November, but the company didn’t admit as much until Nov. 10, …
‘Anonymous’ Knocks CIA Site Offline
Hacking group Anonymous has apparently claimed credit for knocking the Central Intelligence Agency’s website offline. An update at the YourAnonNews Twitter account reads:
CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/
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Google Wallet Hack Shows NFC Payments Still Aren’t Secure
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. That’s not because it doesn’t work; it actually works perfectly, which is the problem.
In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program …
“Why would anybody want to destroy a perfectly good KRS-One song?”