Privacy violations by popular mobile apps under investigation

Privacy violations by popular mobile apps under investigation


Privacy violations by popular mobile apps under investigation

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 07:49 AM PDT

An ongoing grand-jury investigation has revealed that many mobile applications could be sending various user information to advertising networks without the users' knowledge and permission. The ...

Smartphone users feel more secure than PC users

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Many users feel more secure using smartphones to surf the Internet than PCs, and a majority consider the risk of losing personal data higher on computers than on smartphones, according to Kaspersky La...

Review: Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Author: Matthew A. Russell Pages: 360 Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 1449388345 Introduction The only way you could have missed the fact that the social networking boom has led to huge amounts...

Servers breached at Fortune 100 company

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 06:05 AM PDT

The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group - a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US - has suffered a breach that resulted in password-st...

AVG unveils secure cloud-based storage

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:49 AM PDT

AVG Technologies launched AVG LiveKive, a cloud-based storage, sync and share solution. It offers consumers a way to access their personal information, data, files and digital content online, via mult...

Bogus Facebook app harvests user login credentials

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:02 AM PDT

A bogus application harvesting Facebook users' login credentials has recently appeared on the social network, according to Symantec researchers. Luring in users with videos titled "Tornado Randomly...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Moonlight

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:57 AM PDT

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Moonlight, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security features, and potentially compro...

Most global energy organizations suffered a breach

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:29 AM PDT

More than 75 percent of global energy organizations surveyed admit to having suffered at least one data breach over the last 12 months. Furthermore, 69 percent of organizations feel a data breach i...

The true scale of the insider threat

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:11 AM PDT

UK employees are likely to either maliciously or accidentally disclose confidential information about their employers to unauthorized personnel. A LogRhythm survey of 3000 UK workers revealed tha...

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