From the Dutch Data Protection Authority: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP) today publishes its reports resulting from the investigation into the analysis of data traffic (packet inspection) on the mobile network by the mobile operators KPN, Tele2, T-Mobile and Vodafone. These four operators are the largest mobile network providers in the Netherlands. In the…
Category: Breaches
D’OH! Use Tumblr on iPhone or iPad, give your password to the WORLD
John Leyden reports: Tumblr’s iOS app fails to log users in through a secure (SSL) server, it has emerged. As a result users’ plaintext passwords are exposed to anyone able to sniff traffic on any Wi-Fi network an iOS user happens to use to connect to the popular cats’n’grumble free-content platform. The wide-open security howler…
Researchers hack Verizon device, turn it into mobile spy station
Jim Finkle reports: Two security experts said they have figured out how to spy on Verizon Wireless mobile phone customers by hacking into devices the U.S. carrier sells to boost wireless signals indoors. […] “This is not about how the NSA would attack ordinary people. This is about how ordinary people would attack ordinary people,”…
Article: Privacy Auditing: An Exploratory Study
Bruce Schneier’s blog points us to a recent article by Penica Cortez and David Hay. Here’s the Abstract: This paper reports an exploratory study of privacy breaches in the U.S. from 2005-2011 to explore potential benefits of data privacy auditing. Privacy auditing is a mechanism to help organisations to be vigilant in protecting information privacy,…