LetsCall.Me is a smart new service for giving out your contact information to others without actually revealing it. At sign-up you get a special vanity URL and the option to have it direct callers to whatever number you provide. People who have your URL and want to call you can simply enter in their phone number and it will call that number to connect them to yours.
A Web site sponsored by elected officials includes Social Security numbers and other data for thousands of Iowans including Gov. Chet Culver.
IowaLandRecords.org is drawing sharp criticism from watchdog groups, which say it is putting Iowans at risk for identity theft. Culver's spokesman, Troy Price, said he is concerned and the governor's office is looking into the Web site.
Important files should be scrubbed from laptops before entering a foreign country, computer security experts warn.
And if travellers must bring critical files, be sure they’re encrypted. David Perry, a former computer security adviser for AOL who’s now with Bay Area-based Trend Micro, logs about 300 days a year on the road with his laptop, about half the time overseas.
A BRITISH data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of a million bank customers. The computer was bought on the online auction site for $75 by Andrew Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, in central England, who found the information on the computer's hard drive.
It included bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and signatures of one million customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the Independent newspaper reported.
Google's Street View service apparently thinks your "no trespassing" and "private road" signs are just for decoration.
The service, which gives Web users a driver's perspective of hundreds of cities around the world, has raised the ire of residents who say the images are an invasion of their privacy. Now residents in California's Humboldt County are complaining that the drivers who are hired to collect the images are disregarding private property signs and driving up private roads.
In another embarrassing stumble with computerized data, Britain's government confirmed Thursday that a contractor lost a memory device containing information on every prison inmate in England and Wales.
British officials have been humiliated by a series of such blunders that has raised questions about its ability to safeguard personal information of citizens even as it works on final details for an ambitious national identification program and an expanded DNA data base.
International travellers face having their laptop computers, mobile phones, iPods and USB memory sticks scanned and copied at will by customs officials under a proposed global anti-counterfeiting trade deal.
Japan and the US are pushing for the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to be finalised by the end of the year. Participants have kept details of the agreement secret but information has emerged in consultation papers published by an Australian copyright trade body, the Australian Digital Alliance.
Electronic mail sent to the Japanese Consulate General in Hong Kong between Aug. 1 to 7 may have been improperly redirected to third parties due to a glitch at KDDI Hong Kong Ltd., but no internal information from the consulate general was leaked, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Most people are getting very comfortable with technology. Non-typers have evolved into typers. Non-writers have learned to get by. People once not inclined to make telephone calls now make them without blinking. Using technology, though, may put them at risk either on or off the job site.
Someone was attacking women in Fairfax County and Alexandria, grabbing them from behind and sometimes punching and molesting them before running away. After logging 11 cases in six months, police finally identified a suspect.
David Lee Foltz Jr., who had served 17 years in prison for rape, lived near the crime scenes. To figure out if Foltz was the assailant, police pulled out their secret weapon: They put a Global Positioning System device on Foltz's van, which allowed them to track his movements.
