January 4, 2008 1:05 PM
Posted by: David Schneier
PrivacyIt seems that Sears, which sells just about everything under the sun, has decided to get into the spyware business too. The retail giant recently has come under fire from a researcher at CA who discovered that
November 29, 2007 1:27 PM
Posted by: Leigha
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November 20, 2007 3:09 PM
Posted by: Leigha
Data Breaches and Identity Theft,
Information Security Threats,
PrivacyThis news should be unsettling to every family in the UK with kids under 16: The BBC is reporting that two computer discs housing their names, addresses, birth dates, National Insurance numbers and, in some cases, bank details has gone missing.
Chancellor Alistair Darling urged calm, saying...
August 9, 2007 9:48 AM
Posted by: David Schneier
Application Security,
PrivacyAs the effectiveness of online ads has continued to grow, so has the problem of click fraud. Criminals discovered some time ago that botnets make especially efficient means for perpetrating large-scale click fraud schemes, and they have been refining their techniques for years. Syndicators and...
July 31, 2007 2:29 PM
Posted by: Eric Parizo
PrivacyKeystroke loggers are nothing new. Often surreptitiously installed on a user's PC, keyloggers record keyboard actions and log them, or subsequently upload the data to a third party. It was more than three years ago when the
July 23, 2007 11:19 AM
Posted by: David Schneier
PrivacyMicrosoft is trying to upgrade its image in the privacy community a bit and on Monday the company, along with Ask.com, called on other search providers to come to the table for a discussion on how best to handle user search data for advertising purposes while still protecting users' privacy. The...
June 15, 2007 10:21 AM
Posted by: Robert Westervelt
PrivacyPrivacy International, a privacy watchdog group released the interim results of a six month study of privacy practices of Internet...
June 14, 2007 1:30 PM
Posted by: David Schneier
Data Breaches and Identity Theft,
PrivacyThere are a few states that demand that organizations that suffer security breaches that compromise customer data report those incidents to the state as well as the affected individuals. One of those forward-thinking states is New Hampshire, and the state' has gone a step further and decided to...
June 12, 2007 4:04 PM
Posted by: David Schneier
PrivacyOne of the few speed bumps in the road to Google's domination of the world has been concerns around its privacy policies. The company has been dinged by critics for a litany of perceived offenses, including selling ads against keywords found in Gmail messages, and most notably, the amount of time...
