Silky Malhotra reports: Cybersecurity sleuths have issues a warning about a new infectious Trojan virus which steals vital information from your Android based smartphone and can even illegally send SMSes to those on the mobile contact list. The malware dubbed ‘AndroidSmssend’ can acquire as many as four aliases to steal passwords. “Android/SmsSend is a premium…
Category: Breaches
Connolly Proposes Amending Privacy Act to Include Liability for Mental and Emotional Distress
Over on Cato at Liberty, Jim Harper writes: A couple of years ago I wrote here about the Supreme Court case denying that a person could collect damages from the government under the Privacy Act based on mental and emotional distress. It’s a narrow point, but an important one, because the harm privacy invasions produce is often only mental…
Taiwan Says Phone Makers Are Violating Privacy Rule
Eva Dou reports: Taiwan’s telecommunications regulator this week said 12 of the world’s major smartphone makers–including Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. –violated the island’s personal-information-protection act, raising concerns over how large technology companies collect user information. The act says that any company that collects personal data must be clear to consumers about its intentions, and that it shouldn’t…
New software detects personal identifiers in email
Oriana Pawlyk reports: An updated software tool coming Friday will warn you if you include personally identifiable information in your Microsoft Outlook emails. The Air Force is launching the tool — the Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET version 1.6.1 — on its main computer network in hopes of reducing accidental breaches. Read more on…