December 15, 2010
With our without the backing of the Fourth Amendment, we don’t recommend incriminating yourselves via email, but for what it’s worth, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals did rule that Uncle Sam needs a search warrant before he goes snooping in your inbo…
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December 13, 2010
We don’t know if the Hamburgler was involved, but a group of hackers may have driven off with personal information from an undetermined number of McDonald’s customers, the fast food chain alerted potential victims via email.
“Our records indicate you p…
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December 10, 2010
Someone over at NASA forgot to hit the delete key before getting rid of several computers and hard drives — never mind giving things a thorough scrubbing by zeroing-filling the drives, which by itself still isn’t up to government standards — leaving …
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December 6, 2010
Postfinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, has made the decision to close the bank account of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This was one of the main ways Assange took contributions to fund the secret document posting site. According to the AP, P…
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November 24, 2010
UK-based security consultant Thomas Cannon has identified a serious security flaw in Google’s Android operating system. The exploit works on all versions of the platform, and could allow an attacker to view, and copy files from a device’s SD card. Some…
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November 24, 2010
UK-based security consultant Thomas Cannon has identified a serious security flaw in Google’s Android operating system. The exploit works on all versions of the platform, and could allow an attacker to view, and copy files from a device’s SD card. Some…
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November 19, 2010
Noted White Hat hacker and security expert Moxie Marlinspike (not his real name) was recently detained at New York’s JFK airport as he returned from a trip to the Dominican Republic, Wired reports. Marlinspike says he was met at the plane’s gate by age…
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November 19, 2010
Debt collectors go to great lengths pursuing unpaid balances, but they also have to follow a set of rules. A Florida woman is accusing Mark One LLC of breaking those rules by allegedly harassing her through Facebook for a $362 unpaid car loan she still…
Tags: debt, facebook, law, legal, News Worthy, Privacy, Social Networking
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