Illinois today became the second state in the nation to ban employers from asking employees and job applicants for login information to access their social networking accounts.
The law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, also bans such requests during background checks.
In an unprecedented move, the Federal Communications Commission ended a 10-month investigation of Verizon Wireless with a $1.25 million settlement for restricting Android customer access to “tethering” software used to relay Internet signals to other devices.
Sophos is warning of a fake Groupon email carrying a Trojan instead of a group discount from a friend.
The email mimics the real online coupon company’s branding, but a clue that the message is not legitimate is a misspelling in the subject header: “Groupon dicount gifts.”
The popular social sharing site Pinterest is addressing an uptick in suspected hacks by temporarily locking down suspicious accounts and forcing those users to create more unique passwords.
A new malware report indicates Android malware samples grew three-fold last quarter and that one in every 140 devices connected to mobile networks was infected at some point.Closer to home, about 14 percent of household networks were hit by malware this spring, with a 50 percent increase in high-level bots, Trojans and backdoors, according to the Q2 2012 Malware Report from Kindsight Security Labs.
If you find some random person says they’ve tagged a Facebook photo with you, think twice before you investigate further. SophosLabs has discovered malware infecting machines by getting users to open a malicious link in a fake Facebook e-mail notification.Everything looks legit about the alert with one big exception: the domain name for the sender’s URL is Faceboook.com, not Facebook.com.
Skype users who are chatting online when their client crashes may later find the last instant message they sent to someone actually ended up with someone else. The privacy bug surfaced after users began reporting strange activity in a community forum.
Yahoo announced today it’s fixed the security hole that allowed a hacker group this week to post some 450,000 email addresses and passwords belonging to freelance writers.
Some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers say they last year collectively received some 1.3 million requests from law enforcement for customers’ phone records – a number that continues to rise. The information shared with police includes geolocation information, content of text messages, wiretaps and aggregated cell tower activity for a specific block of time.
Symantec is warning of new malware masquerading as two apps on Google Play that claimed up to 100,000 victims before the Trojan was removed.Both “Super Mario Bros.” and “GTA 3 Moscow City” racked up 50,000 to 100,000 downloads after being posted June 24 on Google Play.
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