Security
Young people will have to change names to escape ‘cyber past’ warns Google’s Eric Schmidt
The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.
Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook.
Thousands of online banking customers have accounts emptied by ‘most dangerous trojan virus ever created’
Cyber criminals have raided the accounts of thousands of British internet bank customers in one of the most sophisticated attacks of its kind.
The fraudsters used a malicious computer programme that hides on home computers to steal confidential passwords and account details from at least 3,000 people.
Apple’s Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed
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 wireless-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson to Diane Sawyer of ABC News to film mogul Harvey Weinstein to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It even appears that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s information was compromised.
Big Brother UK: Outrage at secret probe into 47,000 innocent flyers
No word if any terrorists have been caught by the system..
Police secretly investigated the travel habits, family, friends and backgrounds of 47,000 innocent people last year after they bought plane tickets to fly into and out of Britain…
Yes Apple Macs Do Have Malware * bug found in Apple Safari
Beware of popups!
The latest version of Apple’s Safari browser contains a critical bug that allows attackers to install malware on end user machines, security researchers have warned.
Google Street View logs WiFi networks, Mac addresses
Showing your unique wifi hardware number
Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it doesn’t blur your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’ unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along.
New Spyware “Warning! Piracy Detected!” Novel Approach To Extortion
Attempts to force the user to pay $400 for the copyright holder’s fine
A currently ongoing ransomware campaign is using a novel approach to extort money from end users whose PCs have been locked down. – About and Copyright Violation Alert Malware Removal Instructions.
Go Dancing and Drinking – Get Scanned and Fingerprinted
There are major security risks if organisations hold on to large amounts of personal information for lengthy periods of time, including possible identity fraud.
Somewhere in Perth’s central business district is a building containing the names, ages, addresses, photographs and unique fingerprint codes of thousands of revellers who danced and drank at Sydney’s Home nightclub last year.
Home, in Darling Harbour, began trialling a biometric ID scanning entry system nine months ago….
Click on attachment and they have your Facebook, Banking Password
If you get 10 percent success, that's 40 million...
New password-stealing virus targets Facebook
Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information..
Suit: Philadelphia school spied on students via laptops & Webcam
PHILADELPHIA – A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.