Senators Propose Bill Of Rights To Protect Personal Information Online
Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) don’t agree on much in the policy arena, except when it comes to protecting online privacy.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Insider Allegedly Leaked Data Belonging to 3,000 US Airways Pilots
An insider data breach at the US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) has exposed the sensitive financial data of some 3,000 US Airways pilots, according to reports.
Hugh Grant’s Turns Snitch
Hugh Grant went all mafia informant when he concealed a microphone on his persons in order to out former News of the World journalists that had been involved in a rather shady phone-hacking scandal.Evidently, News of the World has, for some time, been implicated in a phone-hacking scandal whereby they had illegally hacked data from phone calls, text messages, and voice mails. The publication is alleged to have then taken this information, much of it later proven to be false, and published it. There have been numerous arrests stemming from investigations into the matter.
Jailed hacker and data theft mastermind Albert Gonzalez is reportedly seeking to appeal his guilty plea, arguing that he committed his crimes at the behest of the Secret Service, according to a report by Wired.
Hackers reportedly broke into and installed password-stealing programs on a number of servers belonging to insurance giant The Hartford, according to a ComputerWorld report.The 200-year-old, 28,000 employee strong company sent a letter of warning to some 300 employees, contractors and a small number of customers.
Unknown attackers have launched distributed denial of service attacks on a long list of blogs hosted on the social media site LiveJournal, including the blog of a prominent anti-corruption blogger in Russia.
A new study of small to mid-sized businesses shows that 75% of banking fraud is now taking place online according to a report from InformationWeek.
Condé Nast was baited in a phishing scam that netted a Texas man nearly $8 million in company funds, according to published reports.
Evidently the kids are not alright. At least, that is when it comes to the increasingly lucrative identity theft black market.
IBM’s X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk report showed that as vulnerability disclosures hit their highest level ever in 2010, security threats continued to increase in sophistication and precision.
