Google threatens to leave China (Independent) - 2 views
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"Last month, Google discovered that it had been the subject of a sophisticated attack on its computer systems, carried out by hackers in search of private data from more than 30 internet companies. Among the targets were the accounts of Chinese human rights activists; experts claimed the hack could be traced to the Chinese government or its proxies. In response, Google announced on Tuesday that it would stop censoring results on Google.cn - the Chinese version of its search engine - or, should Beijing oppose the move, cease operating in China altogether. "
Smart Meters Pose a Privacy Threat on the public. - 0 views
'Our notion of privacy will be useless': what happens if technology learns to read our ... - 1 views
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"In a world first, in September 2021, Chilean law makers approved a constitutional amendment to enshrine mental integrity as a right of all citizens. Bills to regulate neurotechnology, digital platforms and the use of AI are also being worked on in Chile's senate. Neuro rights principles of the right to cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental integrity, and psychological continuity will be considered. Europe is also making moves towards neuro rights. France approved a bioethics law this year that protects the right to mental integrity. Spain is working on a digital rights bill with a section on neuro rights, and the Italian Data Protection Authority is considering whether mental privacy falls under the country's privacy rights."
Forecasting Malicious Internet Attacks - 0 views
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cyberspace is dominated by it
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Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it in advance.
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Last year, computer scientists began exploring a potentially more effective approach: predicting the sites most likely to attack and blocking them in advance. The technique, called highly predictive blacklisting, uses data from past attacks to create a network-type graph out of the pattern of links between victims .
Credit and Debit cards stolen worth 130m - 0 views
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Mr Gonzalez, who had once been an informant for the US Secret Service helping to track hackers, is already in custody on separate charges of hacking into the computer systems of a national restaurant chain and eight major retailers, including TJ Maxx, involving the theft of data related to 40 million credit cards.
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How to Forecast Malicious Internet Attacks - 0 views
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Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it in advance.
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The technique, called highly predictive blacklisting, uses data from past attacks to create a network-type graph out of the pattern of links between victims . It then runs a Google PageRank type algorithm for each victim looking for the most relevant attackers.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook changes privacy policy - 0 views
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be more transparent about what data it collects and why.
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privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account
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The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.
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Privacy for palm consumers - 0 views
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The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.
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It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."
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The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.
Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook - 0 views
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in January this year Twitter announced that 33 accounts had been hacked, including those belonging to US President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears.
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Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
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Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
Secure Channel - Network Security - Network Solutions Suffers Large Data Breach - 0 views
Exploiting Browser Information & Privacy - 0 views
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easy it was to exploit security loopholes
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Easy exploitation leads to a lot of negative consequences and areas of impact include all sorts of education online, banking and financial reserves, businesses and mainstream market affairs, governmental and nongovernmental work and damage to personal information and biological/health data. This also harms intellectual property and ideas can be stolen online far easier than usual... reliability & security....
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redirect traffic
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Redirecting internet connection or regular user traffic could lead to a backlog of information on the web and a loss of personal details and this again as huge areas of impact including security, reliability and extended impact on finances and personal details & anonymity....this also affects systems in the social context with networks being hacked and codes and enscriptions being changed..
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access and steal any information exchanged
Large-scale Credit Card Fraud - 0 views
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identity theft
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internet and telephone transactions
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payment systems of retailers, including the 7-Eleven chain.
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