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Instagram Privacy Changes Start Clock Ticking for Users Who Want to Opt-Out
Instagram users have some soul searching to do between now and Jan. 16 when new terms of service kick in that give the photo-sharing social network the right to sell personal photos without the user’s permission or compensating them. The most startling change reads: “To help us deliver interestin...
Titan Security Data-Sharing Project Presents Big Opportunity For Change
One of the more pernicious and as-yet incurable diseases in security is the resistance to sharing data. Organizations large and small collect all sorts of information on attacks, vulnerabilities and threats and, for the most part, it simply sits in databases and is never of any use to anyone...
Experts Say Better Security Rests on Cooperation, More Data
LAS VEGAS–Reflecting on the successes and failures in the industry in the last 15 years, a panel of security experts at Black Hat said that while defenses have gotten better, attackers have as well and there is a long way to go before defenders have the upper hand. If that ever happens, they said...
EFF: New Cybersecurity Bill Better, Still Unnecessary
The controversial Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act has been scrapped and replaced by a new bill that online rights advocates still consider unnecessary, but which they also acknowledge is a vast improvement on the slew of other bills that have cropped up in recent months. Thankfully, the...
Another Cybersecurity Bill Runs Into Trouble on Capitol Hill
A U.S. Senator’s bill to broaden cybersecurity intelligence gathering is in trouble after other legislators question whether proposed protections comes at the expense of citizens’ privacy. The bill introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT to strengthen cybersecurity through better public-private...
Internet #Censorship : CISPA - Newest Cyber Security Bill
Internet Censorship : CISPA - Newest Cyber Security Bill If you download and distribute copyrighted material on the Internet, or share any information that governments or corporations find inconvenient, you could soon be labeled a threat to national security in the United States. That's the aim o...
EU Gets Tough: Gives Google Two Weeks To Explain Data Practices
A French data privacy watchdog is raising alarms about Google’s data collection practices and has given the Internet search giant a little over two weeks to explain the way it handles the information of its users. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique CNIL sent a letter .PDF late last week t...
Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed
Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Microsoft is to offer a real-time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Currently, Microsoft is testing a real-time feed to distribute informatio...
Facebook track your cookies even after logout !
Facebook track your cookies even after logout ! According to Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic: 'Logging out of Facebook is not enough.' He added, Even after you are logged out, Facebook is able to track your browser's page every time you visit a website. He wrote in his blog 'With my browse...
OnStar to Track Speed, Location of Cars, Even After Users Opt Out
Cars with OnStar’s built-in technology will begin having their where-abouts monitored in December, even if their owners opt-out of the service, according to a new privacy statement issued by the vehicle navigation and emergency notification service this week. The document, available here in .PDF...
100 Million Member LinkedIn Drives Into Privacy Ditch, Hits Reverse
LinkedIn is responding to user complaints about its new social advertising model, which asked its 100 million users to ‘opt-out’ if they didn’t want advertisers to pair their message with content – including photographs – from users’ profiles. In a blog post on Thursday, Ryan Roslansky, the...
Amiro CMS<=5.4.4 PHP injection
ONSEC-09-026 Amiro CMS PHP inj CVE number requested Objective: Amiro CMS = 5.4.4 Type: PHP injection Threat: Medium Discovery date: 29.12.2009 Date of notification Developer: 29.12.2009 Released correction: 03/05/2010 Author: Vladimir Vorontsov OnSec Russian Security Group onsec dot ru Descriptio...
IBM Shows Off Way to Hide Confidential Data Online
From Network World Michael Cooney Researchers at IBM have developed software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping to identify and cover up confidential data. According to IBM the driving idea behind the MAGEN Masking Gateway for Enterprises system is to prevent data leakage...
Report warns of 'web bugs' and privacy violations
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information has released a report showing that the most popular Web sites in the United States all share data with their corporate affiliates and allow third parties to collect information directly by using tracking beacons known a...
Old phishing sites still sending spam, attracting victims
The cooperative effort of ISPs, security vendors, volunteer groups and other interested parties has helped develop a quick and efficient method for taking down phishing sites, usually within hours or days of their appearance. However, many phishing sites that have been up for a week or more still...
De-perimeterization and open standards
From Cnet, by Jon Oltsik The openness and universal connectivity that helped break down the barriers between coporate networks has also turned out to be a security liability. Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, writes that there’s now a need for open standards in security Cnet...
