Linux Privacy - Page 28

The Cookies You Can't Remove

They say that some things last forever, like diamonds or true love or Twinkies. But should browser cookies used for tracking be added to that list?

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Sep 22, 2010

Google Is Making Your Account Vastly More Secure With Two-Step Authentication

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• Sep 20, 2010

Can privacy be saved? Maybe

Thanks to the explosion of social networking and all those nifty web apps people use to bank and shop online, the bad guys now have an endless supply of attack vectors to steal personal data. In fact, some security industry experts have declared privacy dead.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Sep 15, 2010

Comodo Offers FREE BuyerTrust Protection of $100,000 Coverage With Purchase of SSL Certificate

Comodo, a leading Internet security organization, announced today that it is offering a FREE annual subscription to BuyerTrust, a trustmark that is displayed on websites to build trust and confidence, with the purchase of any Comodo SSL Certificate.

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• Sep 01, 2010

Smudges on your Android touchscreen could give away your password

We all know how annoying fingerprints on touchscreens can be, but now researchers believe they can actually leave your mobile phone susceptible to hacking.

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• Aug 13, 2010

Safari autofill exploit can reveal user data

The autofill option in Apple's Safari browser can expose personal data without the user's consent, a security researcher reported on Wednesday. It remains unclear as to whether the problem affects Safari specifically or all WebKit-based browsers, which include Google Chrome. It's recommended that Safari and Chrome users disable the autofill feature immediately, until further notice.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jul 23, 2010

GSM-cracking software may help hackers spy on mobile phone calls

The Global System for Mobile Communications technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jul 22, 2010

Auto-complete: browsers disclose private data - Update

In the run-up to his presentation at the Black Hat conference, Jeremiah Grossman of White Hat Security told The Register that users who allow their browsers to auto-complete frequently used form fields, such as names or email addresses, may become an easy target for data thieves. For instance, auto-complete data can reportedly be retrieved automatically via JavaScript in Safari 4 and 5.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jul 22, 2010

Researchers find privacy flaws in Chatroulette

Perhaps there is finally something to deter Chatroulette.com users from their more offensive behavior: University researchers say that users of the popular video-chat site may not be as anonymous, or as private, as they think.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jul 14, 2010

Australian Privacy Commissioner Rules Google Wifi Actions Illegal

Oh dear, poor Google seem to be catching all kinds of flak over their Wifi Data Collection. The UK Met are already investigating them and they are being pulled to pieces in Germany too with France also weighing in. The latest to jump on the bandwagon is Australia which is stating they have breached the Australian Privacy Act.

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• Jul 12, 2010

Are your IT folks snooping your protected data?

In a survey of IT professionals published Wedneday, 67% of respondents admitted having accessed information that was not relevant to their role, and 41% admitted abusing administrative passwords to snoop on sensitive or confidential information.

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• Jul 08, 2010

White Hat Uses Foursquare Privacy Hole to Capture 875K Check-Ins

If you have checked in with Foursquare in San Francisco in the last three weeks, Jesper Andersen probably knows where and when

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• Jul 01, 2010

Google remotely wipes apps off Android phones

Google has remotely removed two free apps from several hundred Android phones because the apps misrepresented their purpose and thus violated Android developer policies, according to a company spokesman.

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• Jun 27, 2010

Twitter Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Protect User Data

Social networking site Twitter on Thursday settled Federal Trade Commission charges that "serious lapses" in data security put its users at risk. The FTC in its administrative complaint (pdf) said these security lapses allowed hackers to obtain administrative control of Twitter and send out phony tweets from users including then-President-elect Barack Obama and Fox News.

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• Jun 25, 2010

Social Networking Bill Of Rights Released

In the aftermath of much-publicized breaches by heavyweights Google, Facebook, and AT&T, among others, attendees of the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference spent last week creating a Users' Bill of Rights that is now available for public consumption, feedback, and approval.

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• Jun 23, 2010

Google's Wi-Fi net caught passwords, says France

Google intercepted passwords and email content while it was collecting unsecured Wi-Fi data from households, the French privacy watchdog has found. The search and advertising company admitted in May that its Street View cars had harvested information sent over Wi-Fi networks.

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• Jun 22, 2010

ISP Attempt To Block File-Sharing Ends in Epic Failure

In response to the country

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• Jun 14, 2010

Google Wi-Fi Data Capture Unethical, But Not Illegal

Google is under global scrutiny for its "accidental" gathering of wi-fi data while driving about photographing the world with its Street View camera cars. In the court of public opinion Google's actions cross ethical boundaries, but whether or not the activities were illegal depends on the laws in place for the given jurisdiction. Businesses in the United States should understand that the interception of publicly available data traversing the airwaves is probably not illegal.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jun 14, 2010

Wikileaks denies Tor hacker eavesdropping gave site its start

Updated WikiLeaks has denied that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a key part in the early days of the whistle-blowing site. Wired reports that early WikiLeaks documents were siphoned off from Chinese hackers' activities via a node on the Tor anonymiser network, as an extensive interview with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Paul Assange by the New Yorker explains in greater depth.

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jun 03, 2010

Internet Identity Workshop reveals OpenID clashes

There are too many identity-related trade shows and conferences spread over venues all over the world and not enough time to get to them all. It's a far cry from when we started this newsletter 10 years ago, and the increased interest in identity issues should be applauded, but I can't be everywhere at once!

• LinuxSecurity.com Team
• Jun 01, 2010