Wendy Davis reports: Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it leaked the names of search users via referrer headers, according to court papers filed on Friday in San Jose, Calif. The settlement agreement calls for Google to donate $8.5 million to four schools and nonprofit organizations — Harvard Law’s Berkman Center…
Category: Breaches
Dutch mobile operators modify data-analysis after investigation by Dutch DPA finds violations
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…
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,”…