Zappos.com has taken pains to assure customers that their credit card information is safe after a data breach, which was reported over the weekend, compromised information of up to 24 million customers, including names, mailing …
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What Did ‘Anonymous’ Steal from Stratfor? Security Firm Gives Precise Figures
Over 9,000 active credit cards, 27,000 phone numbers and 20,000 “easily cracked” passwords — that’s what hacktivist group Anonymous has released to date, after reportedly hacking international intelligence and threat analysis …
Speak Out and You May Be Targeted, Warns Breached Security Firm Stratfor
Be careful what you say, or say nothing at all, advises hacked international intelligence and threat analysis firm Stratfor, after revealing hackers may be targeting members who offer public support for the company in the wake of …
Facebook Changing International Privacy Policies Following E.U. Review
Facebook users outside of the U.S., you can breathe a little easier: The social media giant has been told that it can no longer indefinitely keep data about which ads you’ve been clicking on, and it’ll have to think twice about …
Chinese Hackers Infiltrated U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Claims Report
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that hackers located in China managed to breach the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s information technology infrastructure–no, not recently, but at some point prior to the hack …
Is Your Cell Phone Listening in on You?
Carrier IQ and other smartphone apps allow for unprecedented surveillance. And it’s all legal.
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Zuck, Your Privacy’s Showing
Ah, to be the public face of a wildly successful tech company. Some of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos have been made public thanks to a brief security glitch on the site.
There are some real doozies too: One …
Is Carrier IQ the Devil, or Just Misunderstood?
Last week all hell broke loose over a little piece of surreptitious smartphone software apparently capable of gleaning everything about your mobile maneuvers from the websites you choose to visit using your phone’s browser, to …
Finger-Pointing, Denials and Confusion: Who Put Keystroke-Tracking Software On Your Phone, Anyway?
With U.S. Senators getting involved in the issue about whether or not Americans’ cell activity is being monitored and recorded without their permission, it’s worth asking the most obvious question: How did the offending Carrier …
British Secret Service Creates Website to Recruit Self-Taught Hackers
It had to happen; after years of science-fiction stories where heroes are recruited through video games that are actually tests of their abilities, a secret service has gone all Last Starfighter and set up a fake website designed …
Carrier IQ ‘Wiretap’ Debacle: Much Ado About Something?
Android, Nokia and BlackBerry users, your every key press is being tracked, claims Connecticut systems administrator Trevor Eckhart. Eckhart said as much recently, raising quite the ruckus, but this time he’s back with a 17 …
Set Your Printer on Fire? Hackers Can Do What?
Imagine: Your printer, at rest in your home office as you’re away at work or maybe out shopping. Suddenly it powers up, humming, making that familiar mechanical shuffling sound so many printers emit during startup. But after a …
