Unlike, from the Captain Obvious department, when the FBI warned hacktivists are breaking the law.... IBM did go "out on a limb to predict the next five big things" but to quote Richi Jennings those IBM predictions are "full of FAIL."
QR codes, those little black-and-white puzzle-like square matrixes that increasingly populate ads and promotional posters, are meant to provide smartphone users with product details. But trusting consumers who scan these squares and comply with permission requests could get more than they bargained for in the way of security and privacy problems.
Vinton Cerf, one of the Internet's pioneers, and 82 other Internet inventors and engineers have signed an open letter to Congress protesting both a controversial piracy bill known as SOPA and related Internet legislation that they say would "create an environment of tremendous fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and seriously harm the credibility of the United States in its role as a steward of key Internet infrastructure."
A flaw in Facebook’s system for reporting objectionable photos on the website was exploited to view confidential images from its members’ accounts. The exploit has already been used to snatch photos from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s private photo collection which has been posted to Web.
Surveillance companies can use your iPhone to take photos of you and your surroundings without your knowledge, said a representative from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at a panel chaired by Julian Assange™ today.
Companies also sell products that will let them change the messages you write, track your location and nick your email contacts, claimed speakers on the panel that included representatives from Privacy International and the aforementioned bureau.
In an interview with AllThingsD today Carrier IQ, the company accused of creating spyware software for mobile carriers, cleared the air and explained in detail what their software does and does not do.
Carrier IQ explained the reasons behind the appearance of keystroke logging in their software. Their software is configured to monitor, not log the keystrokes looking for particular sequences that the carrier can instruct a user to enter to send diagnostic information back to the carrier.
A German online reputation and privacy management company, secure.me, set its sights on a global market today, announcing it will be launching in ten different languages. The company markets towards parents who want to monitor the online shenanigans of their children, as well as those who fear the social networking site they use could become an Achilles’ heel for their professional repute.
After angering users with one privacy misstep after another, Facebook yesterday settled charges by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it had deceived users and shared information it had told them would be private.
Now users and industry analysts are waiting to see if Facebook will correct its course on privacy matters or continue on with nothing more than a slight mark from its slap on the wrist.
It seems that the Cleveland mall operator who last week declared it was tracking mall shoppers in California and Virginia via their cell phones has had a change of, perhaps, heart.
CNN reports that Forest City Commercial Management might have been encouraged to change its mind, heart, and attitude by a phone call from the office of Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).
The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said Monday.
"We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks," police investigator Timo Piiroinen told AFP.
