Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Risks’

What Should Matrimonial Attorneys Know About Cyberforensics?

According to surveys of U.S. and U.K. matrimonial attorneys, more and more of them are asking (or requiring) their clients to disclose Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media credentials […]

FTC fines RockYou $250,000 for storing user data in plain text

social game developer RockYou suffered a serious SQL injection flaw on its flagship website. Worse, the company was storing user details in plain text. As a result, tens of millions […]

Employer Fires Aide Over Refusal to Give Up Facebook Password

It’s not just kids anymore – adults with quirky humor, facebooking on their own time, with their own equipment are also being harassed.   From Time.com: A teacher’s aide in […]

iPad's 'Dictation' sends info to Apple servers

“Dictation” is one of the features of the new iPad, and it can be used to dictate notes, emails, text messages. But new iPad owners may want to use it […]

Cybercops traced Toulouse massacre suspect through IP address

The IP address of a computer used to view a motorbike sales ad posted by an early victim of the Toulouse gunman played a vital role in narrowing down Mohamed […]

What can we learn from the Dharun Ravi case?

What can we learn from the Dharun Ravi case? 1) All the evidence was digital / social media 2) Dharun’s computers & phones self-incriminated him They relied primarily on statements […]

Want a football scholarship? Friend your coach

Who’s more invasive than State Governments & employers? Colleges.   Yes, the bastions of higher learning and organized sports are also erasing any concept of privacy.  To protect the multi-billion […]

Govt. agencies demand applicants' Facebook passwords

Want a job? Login to your facebook account please… From MSNBC: In Maryland, job seekers applying to the state’s Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into […]

Want a job? hand over your facebook credentials

In the US, UK and several other countries, employers are requiring that employees hand over their Facebook / Linkedin / etc accounts during the hiring process.   Some are requiring […]

Apple will close iWork.com and delete user documents on July 31, 2012

One of the biggest risks in Cloud Computing is when your cloud vendor dies, or kills the product. In numerous cases, we see small businesses using 4-. 5- or even […]