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FaceBook caught selling personal data
Facebook has a lot of information on its users. It can know where they live, how old they are, what sites they visit, what foods they like, where they work, where they go on vacation, where they like to party, and who their friends are. In Facebook-speak, it's all mapped to your "social graph." Translation: they know who's been naughty and who's been nice.
That can be very valuable information for marketers who want to reach people they think are most likely to buy their products.
It has also become a tool for cyberbullying. People get fired for what they post to Facebook. Others have been robbed by thieves via Facebook.
Is Nightly Tape Backup Enough?
At best, a tape backup will provide a copy of important data, but it does little or nothing to ensure that your business can gain access to critical information should a major outage occur. Rebuilding servers from scratch, to then re-install applications and restore data is a major challenge, highly likely to fail. 43% of firms that suffer a major data loss will never re-open for business, and 51% will fold within 2 years. These figures highlight the importance of a solid disaster recovery strategy.
4 in 10 Companies Do Not Enforce Security
Just 40 per cent of government respondents said "IT security strategy is in place and enforced to an acceptable degree" in their organizations, while the figure for both publicly-traded and privately-held companies was 59 per cent.
Albert Gonzalez sentenced to 20 years Mar 26 2010
A federal grand jury indicted Gonzalez and two Russian hackers in the case involving Heartland; more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers from five companies were stolen. More than 250 financial institituions were affected. Retailer JC Penney fought to keep its name secret during court proceedings.
Enterprise Infections
79 % of enterprise PCs in the U.S. are infected with some form of spyware at any given time. (U.S. FBI Cyber Crime Survey)
Apple Applies for Big Brother Patent
The patent, titled "Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device," describes several ways a device could sense who is using an iPhone or iPad, even "noting particular activities that can indicate suspicious behavior". The device could automatically snap pictures of the unauthorized user and record the GPS coordinates of the device, as well as log keystrokes, phone calls, or other activity.
Smaller organizations in North America believe they can fly under the radar of today's cyber crooks.
The latest survey from security vendor McAfee has found that small to medium-size businesses in North America and Europe wrongly conclude their revenue is too low to draw the attention of cybercriminals. McAfee said. Although there may be less money or data to steal, the attacks are also less likely to gain the attention of law enforcement organizations such as the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the U.S., 39 per cent of businesses with up to 1,000 employees reported spending an hour or less a week on IT security. The figure is higher for Canadian businesses: 44 per cent.
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A week in the surveillance society, 2016
Microsoft announced a new initiative around vulnerability reporting.
McDonald's, CBS, Mazda and Microsoft use their Internet ads as a cover for data-mining, to identify the websites people visit, invading people's privacy, misappropriating their personal information and interfering with the operations of their computers, a class action claims in Federal Court
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., making of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent.
“Some apps are also selling additional information to ad networks, including users’ location, age, gender, income, ethnicity, sexual orientation and political views,” according to the suit.
Cryptographers have devised a low-cost way to intercept phone calls and text messages sent over the majority of the world's mobile networks. GSM connects more than 5 billion phones, it's used by AT&T and T-Mobile and by all major carriers in the UK.
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Most large networks use Windows Internet Explorer due to the fact it's easier to lock down remotely and obtain forensic data
US Department of Justice reports drug trafficking is now being replaced by identity theft as the number one crime.
Experts estimate that about 10 million people become victims each year. That means every minute, 19 people become new victims of identity fraud!
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Apple faces questions from Congress about iPhone tracking
Privacy attorney says Apple may be looking at lawsuits, too
Here is a free app from an ex Apple employee to view the data
iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 logged up to 100 location entries daily. The data is stored in an unencrypted SQLite file on the device, while a copy of the file is regularly backed up by Apple's iTunes during synchronization, then saved on the device owner's Windows PC or Mac. Video is here