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TomTom sorry for giving customer driving data to cops

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

‘Anonymous’ info used to set speed traps

Navigation device maker TomTom has apologized for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists.…

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Jobs Speaks Out On iPhone Tracking Controversy

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

Apple CEO Steve Jobs tells The New York Times that location service bugs will be fixed but that Apple was never tracking customers.


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PlayStation Network credit cards protected by encryption

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

User passwords? Not so much

All credit card information stored on Sony’s PlayStation Network was encrypted, the company said one day after warning users their user names, passwords, birth dates and home addresses were stolen in a security breach.…

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Sony Sued Over PlayStation Network Breach

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

The Sony PlayStation Network outage has prompted questions about data security and a congressional inquiry, and now you can add class-action lawsuit to the list.


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Feds To Shutter 137 Data Centers In 2011

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

The U.S. government is taking an axe to its nearly 1,200 data centers and also plans to move nearly 1 million federal e-mail accounts to the cloud.


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Safeguarding critical infrastructure from the next Stuxnet

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

While it has been disturbing to see Internet threats become driven by financial gain, Stuxnet signals the arrival of something more worrisome: a new class of threat designed to seize and control critical infrastructure.

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Google patches 27 Chrome bugs, pays out record bounties

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

Google today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it boosted the “stable” build of the browser to version 11 on Windows, Mac and Linux.

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TomTom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

‘Anonymous’ info used to set speed traps

Navigation device maker TomTom has apologized for supplying driving data collected from customers to police to use in catching speeding motorists.…

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Feds move to uninstall bot that hit banks, airports, cops

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

Drainage of Coreflood continues

The notorious Coreflood botnet has penetrated a veritable who’s who of sensitive organizations, including banks, state and local governments, airports, defense contractors, and a police department, an FBI agent said in sworn testimony.…

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My Top Ten Tools, Part 2

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments

Gibbs lists the final five of his top ten networking tools

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