Telstra privacy blunder reveals account details of some 1m customers
Personal and account details of over one million customers of Australian telecom giant Telstra were accessible to any Internet user – and may have been taken advantage …
Personal information of 3.5 million poker players leaked
Personal data of some 3.5 million users of the Ultimate Bet poker website have been made available for download on an online forum for a short time. The data included the …
Facebook bug allows users to access private photos
A bug tied to Facebook’s “Report/Block” process can be misused to access uploaded photos of people who have chosen not to share them publicly, says a poster …
Only U.S. customers targeted with Carrier IQ?
Carriers are yet to be affected greatly by the revelations made by researcher Trevor Eckhart. Even though most mobile phone manufacturers have denied installing the Carrier IQ …
IT pros can’t resist peeking at privileged information
IT security staff will be some of the most informed people at the office Christmas party this year. A full 26 per cent of them admit to using their privileged log in rights to …
EU data directive reform could be a business burden
The imminent reform of the European Data Protection Directive could be ineffective in the short term and place further financial and security burdens upon European businesses …
Tool to detect Carrier IQ
Bitdefender announced the availability of a new tool that identifies the presence of the controversial mobile network diagnostic tool from Carrier IQ. Dubbed Carrier IQ …
AT&T and Sprint acknowledge use of Carrier IQ
The Carrier IQ issue continues to unravel as phone manufacturers and some carriers fall over each other in the rush to distance themselves from any involvement with it and the …
Mobile carriers to blame for use of secret logging software?
The recent revelation that most Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones are installed with the Carrier IQ software that logs practically all actions made by the mobile phone …
Data breaches up 32 percent
The frequency of data breaches in healthcare organizations has increased by 32 percent, with hospitals and healthcare providers averaging four data breaches, according to the …
Researcher proves hidden software logs everything on mobile phones
By now, you have already heard about the claims made by 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart that the Carrier IQ software – designed by an eponymous Mountain View company – …
1000+ UN emails, usernames and passwords leaked
A group of hackers that go by the name of “Teamp0ison” has apparently hacked one (or more) of UN’s servers and dumped over 1000 email addresses, usernames …
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