Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a bill closing a loophole in the penal law to ensure that people who have had their image broadcasted without their consent will have a course of action under the law. This expansion ensures that police officers will be able to bring charges in cases where a person’s privacy had…
Category: Breaches
Why were CERT researchers attacking Tor?
Ed Felten writes: Yesterday the Tor Project issued an advisory describing a large-scale identification attack on Tor hidden services. The attack started on January 30 and ended when Tor ejected the attackers on July 4. It appears that this attack was the subject of a Black Hat talk that was canceled abruptly. These attacks raise serious questions about research…
Tor security advisory: “relay early” traffic confirmation attack
From the Tor blog: On July 4 2014 we found a group of relays that we assume were trying to deanonymize users. They appear to have been targeting people who operate or access Tor hidden services. The attack involved modifying Tor protocol headers to do traffic confirmation attacks. The attacking relays joined the network on…
Petco Moves to Dismiss Privacy Suit in Mass.
Lisa Hoffman reports: A seemingly simple mailing mixup, in which a required letter was posted to the wrong company, may well doom a proposed class action against Petco Animal Supplies Store, Inc. Massachusetts plaintiffs Jeffrey Scolnick and Leah Crohn filed a class complaint June 17, accusing Petco of violating Massachusetts General Law Chapter 93A, commonly…