Posted February 22, 2012
Ushering in tax season, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released its annual “Dirty Dozen” tax scams for 2012. Read the story on Naked Security.
Bogus Twitter and Wikipedia sites fined and booted offline
Posted February 17, 2012
Two typosquatting sites, “Wikapedia.com” and “Twtter.com,” have been forced offline and fined £100,000 ($156,000) each by a UK telephone regulatory agency. In this post, I pass along tips on how you can avoid falling victim to typosquatters. Here’s the Naked Security article.
EPIC sues FTC over Google’s planned privacy changes
Posted February 13, 2012
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to compel the agency to stop Google’s planned privacy changes. Read it.
Whistleblowers charge FDA with spying on personal email
Posted February 1, 2012
Six scientists and doctors filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week for secretly monitoring their personal email accounts. Read it on Naked Security.
MegaUpload data could be deleted by Thursday
Posted January 31, 2012
According to reports, hosting companies may start deleting MegaUpload users’ content from their servers as soon as Thursday – regardless of whether or not the content is legal. Read the story.
The FBI vs the FTC: the battle for user privacy in social media
Posted January 30, 2012
An interesting juxtaposition: the FBI’s quest for a social media data mining application vs. the FTC taking Facebook and Google to task over privacy transgressions. Should the agencies settle it via Jello wrestling? Read the full story on Naked Security.
Symantec: Stop using pcAnywhere, right now
Posted January 25, 2012
Symantec has admitted that blueprints for current versions of its pcAnywhere software were stolen in 2006 and that all users are at risk of attack and should pull the plug. Here’s the article.
File sharing sites snapping shut like scared clams in MegaUpload backwash
Posted January 24, 2012
File sharing sites appear to be panicking in reaction the the FBI’s shutdown of the MegaUpload file sharing site. Read the Naked Security piece for what each of them are doing to come into line with U.S. law.
Romanian NASA hacker gets suspended three-year sentence
Posted January 20, 2012
A Romanian who admitted to hacking into NASA servers has received a three-year suspended prison sentence. Being tried in the US wouldn’t have guaranteed jail time, so here’s hoping the Obama administration wins in its pursuit of a mandatory three-year prison term for hacking critical infrastructure. Read it.
Hackers snatch $6.7m in South African cyber bank robbery
Posted January 20, 2012
A mere three years after a South African bank spent $1.8 million on a new fraud-detection system, hackers managed to swindle $6.7 million out from under that system’s nose. Although customer funds are thought to be safe, would you actually trust your money to an institution vulnerable to getting hacked so brutally? Read it.