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Google also bypassed cookie settings in Internet Explorer

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Following the revelation that Google and other online marketing companies have been bypassing the mechanism for blocking third-party cookies in Safari, the Internet Explorer development team asked themselves whether Google might be doing the same thing in IE.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2012

Privacy Tool Lets Users Quickly Rank Websites on Privacy Policies

Website privacy policies, like end-user agreements, have become a morass of confusion that offer little in the way of clarity about what sites are and aren

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 15, 2012

Your address book is mine: Many iPhone apps take your data

Last week, Path iPhone app users were surprised (and quite disgruntled) to learn that the innards of their address books contacts email addresses and phone numbers had been uploaded to and stored on Paths servers. After a public outcry, Path immediately amended its practice to request user permission, and deleted its records.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 14, 2012

The in-depth guide to data destruction

A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 07, 2012

Google stirs up privacy hornet's nest

Google has whipped up a privacy brouhaha with a blog post announcing that the company is rewriting its privacy policy , consolidating user information across its services.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 26, 2012

Hackers use videoconferencing cameras to spy on boardroom meetings

Teleconferencing vendors say they're trying to strike the right balance between security and usability after security researchers found they could dial in to the conference lines of major companies and manipulate video cameras to spy on boardrooms.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 26, 2012

Google to combine users' data across its services

Google will be able to combine data from several Google services when a Google Accounts user is signed in, as part of a rewritten set of privacy policies that the company announced on Tuesday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 25, 2012

Supreme Court GPS ruling called a win for privacy

Calling it a significant victory for privacy rights, civil rights advocates Monday hailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that requires law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant before they can attach a GPS tracking device to a vehicle.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2012

German cops hacked in revenge for dad spying on daughter

An infiltration of a German federal security system last year has been traced back to a botched attempt by an unnamed security official to use a Trojan to monitor his daughter's internet usage, Der Spiegel reports.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2012

Privacy 2012: I know what you did at 3:30 a.m.

2011 saw a number of significant privacy events. From Facebook and Google Plus dueling over privacy policies to concerns over what information your mobile phone actually knows about you. However, technology keeps moving forward, and privacy issues are sure to follow. For a peek into what experts expect in the year and years ahead when it comes to privacy, we turned to Rebecca Herold (aka the Privacy Professor) for answers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2012

Anonymous hunts neo-Nazis with WikiLeaks-style site

Members of Anonymous have re-doubled their offensive against German neo-Nazis. The hacktivists of Operation Blitzkrieg this week launched a WikiLeaks-style website that aims to expose members of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) and other extremist groups, Der Spiegel reports.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2012

Watching the watchers

While most attention today is placed on containing complex malware and outside hacking threats, enterprises could significantly improve their risk posture by taking a look at how well they manage the access they give privileged insiders, such as network and database administrators and other IT professionals. What most organizations find is that they don't have a firm enough grip on the access these users have.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 23, 2011

How SOPA's 'circumvention' ban could put a target on Tor

A little-noticed section of the Stop Online Piracy Act could make it illegal to distribute Tor and other software that can "circumvent" attempts by the U.S. government to block pirate Web sites.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 21, 2011

Google, Microsoft teams work to keep pace with privacy laws

Executives from Microsoft and Google on Thursday gave a glimpse into the size of their privacy organizations, which are required for the companies to try to avoid running foul of complicated U.S. privacy regulations and prepare for changes coming to privacy laws around the globe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 09, 2011

When will we take back our privacy?

Back in 1999, I remember being extremely agitated when Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it!" regarding consumer privacy protections. "How arrogant is this guy?" I remember asking. Little did I know he was speaking the truth, albeit earlier than most of us wanted to hear it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 06, 2011

Compromised certificates: Revocations alone are insufficient

Revoking a digital certificate does not automatically invalidate, for instance, software signatures that have been made with this certificate. What matters is the revocation date, which determines the point in time after which a signature will no longer be validated.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2011

Firefox and Internet Explorer pull trust in DigiCert SSL certificates

Mozilla and Microsoft said Thursday they are revoking trust in all certificates issued by Digicert, a Malaysian intermediate certificate authority, after it was found that it had issued 22 certificates with weak 512 bit keys and missing certificate extensions and revocation information.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 07, 2011

Want to avoid all private-data breaches, ever? Here's how

As information and privacy commissioner of Ontario, Ann Cavoukian's jurisdiction is limited to the Canadian province. But that doesn't mean the effects of her post don't extend into territories across the globe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2011

Should you share breach information?

When companies suffer a security breach today they face that core dilemma: Tell the world and hope the honesty helps others, or keep it under wraps to avoid tarnishing the brand and duck possible lawsuits? One thing is clear from the arguments below: It is time for the government to take the guesswork out of the equation.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2011

Hackers Press the 'Schmooze' Button

As banks and other large companies spend large amounts of money on building firewalls and using complex technology to fortify their systems, it is often their own employees who are letting identity thieves in the door.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2011

Linux Privacy - Page 24

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

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