Mercedes Benz updates car software remotely
All of us have experienced Patch-Tuesdays, when we come into work and find our desktops & laptops rebooted due to mandatory Microsoft patches. Imagine starting your car and finding […]
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Here’s what Facebook sends the cops in response to a subpoena – 62 pages
In the EU-vs-Facebook cases, Facebook has sent european citizens 800 PAGES of documents. In the US, a subpeona merits 62 pages. So, either the Craigslist killer didn’t use […]
Selling You on Facebook
WOW! Even the Wall Street Journal thinks Facebook’s data collection, data profiling and app-sharing is out of control. From the 4/9/12 WSJ column: A Wall Street Journal examination of […]
Times Square Marriott Injects javascript to break privacy and serve ads
Apparently, the Time Square Marriott cannot make profit at $ 368/night. The use technology to infect/inject every web page that you view with altered ads. Would we put […]
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 […]
French and US corporations sell unpatched exploits to highest bidders
France-based VUPEN is one of the highest-profile firms trafficking in zero-day exploits. Earlier this month at the CanSecWest information security conference, VUPEN declined to participate in the Google-sponsored Pwnium hacking […]
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 […]
Is Your New HDTV Watching You?
Samsung UN65ES8000; group photo ©iStockphoto.com/Jennifer Byron Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin […]
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 […]
Brazilian city uses computer chips embedded in school uniforms to keep track of students – 3/22/2012 2:11:33 PM | Newser
Twenty thousand students in 25 of the of Vitoria da Conquista’s 213 public schools started using T-shirts with chips earlier this week, secretary Coriolano Moraes said by telephone. By 2013, […]
