Privacy
Online Privacy: Fighting for Your Eyeballs
January 06, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Most major websites now install cookies on your computer, which track what you do online. Over time, these cookies develop a profile, which becomes your digital fingerprint, to a certain extent. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and most major newspapers, retailers, and advertisers are in on the game...
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A Facebook Security Lockdown Guide
January 03, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Whittaker warns that if this is your first attempt at securing your profile, there is a chance that the damage has already been done. Nonetheless, taking a few minutes of your time to implement guide's recommendations could save you many hours of heartache down the road...
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Traitorware Enabled Devices Track Your Every Move
December 27, 2010 Added by:Headlines
If Apple puts a particularly creepy patent it has recently applied for into use, you can look forward to a day when your iPhone may record your voice, take a picture of your location, record your heartbeat, and send that information back to the mothership...
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Losing Control of Your Digital Life
December 20, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
What does this mean to you? Realize right now, “big brother” is the least of your concerns. I’d be more concerned about your little brother and his iPhone. Just know going forward that we are all living in the phish bowl...
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E-Readers May Be Tracking More Than You Know
December 17, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The devices may also be transmitting information such as the speed at which a user reads material, which pages were accessed, and more importantly where the user was at the time they read the material via geo-location capabilities...
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Viewing Remote Video with Backtrack 4 and Metasploit
December 16, 2010 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Many people have wondered if hackers could take control of a remote webcam. Well, the short answer is yes. If a hacker has compromised your system via malware, exploit or by you clicking on one of those fake online virus scan programs, they could in fact view images through your webcam...
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Supercookies: What Websites Know About You
December 11, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
With numerous privacy watchdogs taking this kind of advertising offensively, and the Obama administration now stepping in, we will surely see standards in this kind of marketing practice appear over the next few years...
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Software Disclosed Children's Info to Marketers
December 06, 2010 Added by:David Navetta
The FTC alleged that the company engaged in a deceptive act or practice in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to inform parents that the information the software collected about their children would be disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes...
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Google and Yahoo Allow Gov Surveillance For a Price
November 19, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian did some snooping of his own through the Freedom of Information Act and found that Google charged the DEA $25 per case for access to user data. Yahoo, in an ongoing to effort to best Google at something, charged the agency $29 per case...
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What Happened to My Biometric?
November 18, 2010 Added by:Guy Huntington
There has been a significant increase in the use of biometrics for authentication. It is becoming more commonly used to purchase groceries, to gain access to premises, passing through passport control and for logging on to computers. There are some dangers with this trend...
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Facebook Hacking, Security, and Privacy Concerns
November 11, 2010 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
It’s not hacking if users’ privacy settings are searchable, right? It depends on who you ask. Current Facebook privacy settings come with a recommendation that urges users to leave their pages searchable to everyone. You might be surprised at the amount of information that’s accessible...
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Library of Congress Collecting All Tweets
November 09, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
What has been captured so far? According to Matt Raymond's article, tweets such as Barack Obama's 2008 election, or the photojournalist arrested in Egypt who tweeted his way to his eventual release, are there - and your tweets too...
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Facebook Privacy Progress and Pitfalls
October 30, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
In a positive move, Facebook filed lawsuits against the scammers hitting it's site and it's users, but The Wall Street Journal reported that your information was being transmitted to marketing firms, and Fox News did an investigation researching how well Facebook blocks child predators...
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Facebook - Breaking Your Privacy Rules
October 22, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
The cause for concern is the Facebook ID number can be used to trace back to a person's name and their friends' names even if you have your security settings at the highest and strictest levels. In other words, you have a false sense of privacy...
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The Law of Privacy on Social Networks
October 20, 2010 Added by:David Navetta
Relevant information stored on social networks is generally discoverable in civil litigation. This simple proposition is largely ignored by most users of social media, and has been largely ignored by lawyers doing discovery in civil litigation...
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California Unemployment Exposing Social Security Numbers
October 12, 2010 Added by:Lawrence Pingree
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) is still in the practice of sending out it's customer statements with some of the information needed to perform a successful identity theft. This includes a persons name, address and social security number...
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