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.: Congress begins major push to update privacy law - 17th May 2011
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"The U.S. Congress took the first major step today toward updating a 1986 law, crafted in the pre-Internet era of telephone modems and the black-and-white Macintosh Plus, to protect the privacy of Americans who use mobile phones, Web e-mail, and services like Google Docs, Flickr, and Picasa..."
[news.com] |
.: Business 2.0: Privatising privacy - 12th May 2011
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"Something rather interesting is happening to privacy, in the breakneck world of the internet. It's being privatised. Legislatures around the world are flummoxed by the sheer breadth of the internet-related privacy issues piling up with exponential speed on their doorsteps...."
[ABC] |
.: Hackers Claim to Have PlayStation Users’ Card Data - 2nd May 2011
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"Security researchers said Thursday that they had seen discussions on underground Internet forums indicating that the hackers who infiltrated the Sony PlayStation Network last week may have made off with the credit card numbers of Sony customers..."
[NY Times] |
.: Web Surfing Activity Vulnerable to 'History Sniffing' Report Says - 1st May 2011
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"On the heels of a government report pushing a "do not track" option for Web browsers, a recent study from the University of California-San Diego finds that browser vulnerabilities can allow access to your Web-surfing history. Researchers cautioned, however, that the practice is not as harmful as malicious software attacks like malware..."
[PC Mag] |
.: Sony Says Network Hackers Gained Access to Users’ Personal Data - 27th Apr 2011
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"Sony Corp. said hackers may have gained access to personal information on the 75 million users of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity online service, including billing addresses and passwords. The intruders obtained user-provided names, e-mails, birth dates and log-in information, Patrick Seybold, a Sony spokesman, said on the company blog page..."
[PC World] |
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