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.
Anne Saita
Facebook Open to Comments on Proposed Privacy Policy Changes
Facebook today announced proposed changes to its privacy policy that may better explain how it uses cookies and how long it retains your data, which is: “as long as necessary.” In addition, it wants the option to use your data for advertising on third-party Web sites.
UNC-Charlotte Data Breaches Expose 350,000 Social Security Numbers and Much More
Confidential data, including bank account and Social Security numbers for some 350,000 University of North Carolina-Charlotte students, staff and faculty, were accidentally exposed — some for almost 15 years — due to a system misconfiguration and incorrect access settings that made electronic data publicly available.
The Department of Homeland Security is the latest agency to appeal to U.S. consumers to check their computers for signs of DNSChanger malware before they are knocked offline in a couple of months.
Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it’s hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer.
According to a news release, Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with quickly broadening the company’s focus on consumer privacy. She also was named the company’s General Counsel.
Travelers abroad should be on alert for malware masquerading as a software update when they attempt to connect to the Internet from their hotel rooms.
A Consumer Reports investigation indicates 13 million U.S. Facebook users are oversharing — and likely don’t know it.
As botnets continue as a major purveyor of malicious activity, finding new and improved ways to measure their influence will be key to preventing future attacks. But gaining an accurate read on active populations continues to prove difficult.
A vulnerability in Skype that could expose members’ IP addresses may have been known to Skype officials as far back as November 2010. A researcher who first discovered the flaw speculates it may have been left exposed perhaps because it was deeply embedded in the code and could cause other problems, according to a Wall Street Journal blog.
A South Korean security provider says it’s uncovered popular Android apps that want more information than is required, putting users at risk.AhnLab, Inc., headquartered in Seoul, analyzed 178 of the best-rated Android applications using its cloud-based app security analysis tool, ranking each app on a scale of 1 to 100 in degree of risk. Any app receiving 60 or above was classified as malicious across five different access categories: personal information, service information, location information, service charging and device information.
