By eric on June 14, 2010
By Marc Perton on June 14, 2010 2:29 PM
Goatse Security, the white-hat hackers that exposed the iPad’s problems keeping email addresses under wraps, is back with a warning about additional risks to owners of the tablet. And they’re also more than a little peeved that AT&T called them “malicious” in yesterday’s apology to customers. “When we disclosed this, we did it as a service to our nation. We love America and the idea of the Russians or Chinese being able to subvert American infrastructure is a nightmare,” Goatse’s Escher Auernheimer said.
Security Experts Claim iPad Vulnerable To New Attacks – The Consumerist
Posted in Apple, Computers, Security
By eric on June 10, 2010
Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed
Posted in Apple, Computers, Security Tagged ipad
By eric on May 14, 2010
Google: Oops…our Street View cars also saw websites you were visiting
By Tim Conneally | Published May 14, 2010, 5:26 PM
Google today said it will stop collecting Wi-Fi network data from its Street View cars, after an investigation from the German Data Protection Authority (DPA) found the search company was also collecting data about websites people were visiting on public hotspots.
Google: Oops…our Street View cars also saw websites you were visiting | Tech Policy & Law News – Betanews
Posted in Computers, Internet, Privacy, Security Tagged google, street view
By eric on May 4, 2010
Posted in Computers, Privacy, Security Tagged facebook, Privacy
By eric on March 8, 2010
Posted in Computers, Security, Web Browsers
By eric on February 28, 2010
Posted in Computers, Privacy, Security