According to a somewhat confusing Wall Street Journal story, Iran has adopted NSA-like techniques and installed equipment on its national telecommunication network last year that allows it to spy on the online activities and correspondence — including the content of e-mail and VoIP phone calls — of its internet users.
Well, here's an innovative way to get some buzz: FBHive, a new blog devoted to the discussion of all things Facebook, has debuted with the revelation that its creators have discovered a hack that can expose some crucial profile data.
Reports that the Conservative government is working on legislation that would grant law enforcement officials the ability to access information from internet service providers has privacy advocates concerned about how such a law might erode the rights of Canadians.
Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan outlined the need to update the wiretapping laws on Wednesday before the House of Commons' Public Safety and National Security Committee, according to transcripts of the session. Public Safety Canada could not be reached for comment.
Hackers are joining your friends on popular social networking sites in a new form of identity theft.
They typically trick you into downloading programs that record keystrokes and sit back and wait for you to key in passwords and email address.
Then they log on as you and wreak havoc on your social networking life and, possibly, your financial life. They also use video links, fake antivirus deals and other ruses to get your goat.
Nightjack's blog is, as its author put it rather beautifully yesterday, "slowly melting away as it drops off the edge of the Google cache". Nightjack has gone, too, exposed by the Times as Detective Constable Richard Horton from the Lancashire Constabulary, a once-anonymous blogger brought down by his quality writing.
European privacy regulators could be about to throw a spanner into the works of attempts by social networking sites such as Facebook to find new ways to increase profits as they try to restrict the way internet groups release personal data.
CIOs think about privacy the way some people think about exercise: with a sigh and a sense of impending pain. Outside of regulated industries like health care--where patient privacy is paramount--privacy affects CIOs as a corollary of security when, say, a laptop holding millions of people's records is lost or hackers siphon off customer data.
More than one-third of information technology professionals abuse administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues' salary details or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
Data security company Cyber-Ark surveyed more than 400 senior IT professionals in the United States and Britain, and found that 35 percent admitted to snooping, while 74 percent said they could access information that was not relevant to their role.
Gone are the days when the innocuous social networking site, Orkut, was used as a common platform for liaisoning between friends, age no bar.
However, many unscrupulous users have now hacked and misused the site mainly to harass their rivals or plain mischief mongering. Recently cyber experts of the city have registered many cases of orkut profile hacking.
All internet and phone traffic should be recorded to help the fight against terrorism, according to one of the UK's former spy chiefs.
Civil rights campaigners have criticised ministers' plans to log details of such contact as "Orwellian".
But Sir David Pepper, who ran the GCHQ listening centre for five years, told the BBC lives would be at risk if the state could not track communication.
