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The trade association I belong to, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), like many other trade associations, supports a US federal privacy law. This is the right thing to do to protect consumers from harm and solidify trust in the digital economy. It is also good for business because the world needs US leadership in providing a model for effective privacy and continued innovation. And within the United States,…
Stretching back as far as 2012, Facebook has been storing the passwords of hundreds of millions of users unencrypted, in plaintext. And those passwords were searchable by Facebook staff… Source: https://www.grahamcluley.com
Online drug dealers get busted due to poor OPSEC! People are still failing to wipe their USB sticks properly! A potential presidential candidate is outed as a former hacker! Flat Earthers! Pi! Empathy! All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Paul Ducklin. Source: https://www.grahamcluley.com
Experts from Gartner, Lookout and Google talk enterprise mobile security in this webinar replay. Source: https://threatpost.com
Until a report this week, Uber’s Surfcam’s use was thought to be limited to incidents uncovered in Singapore in 2017. For its part, Uber denies that it’s a “spyware.” Source: https://threatpost.com
Researcher buys old computers, flash drives, phones and hard drives and finds only two properly wiped devices out of 85 examined. Source: https://threatpost.com
Gnosticplayers has released about 26 million records from what he said are breaches of six new companies. Source: www.threatpost.com
Developers will have a new option to for Android apps to track location only when in use. Source: www.threatpost.com
With wide deployment expected in the next decade, the driverless automobile landscape looks fraught – from road safety to data protection. Source: www.threatpost.com