Eric Roper reports: Another lawsuit emerged this week alleging that government employees misused driver’s license data, marking the latest of several legal battles over the issue now winding through federal court. […] In its third such lawsuit, law firm Farrish Johnson filed suit against the state this week on behalf of a man whose record…
Category: Breaches
If You’re Collecting Our Data, You Ought to Protect It
Natasha Singer reports: Last summer, employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration received an in-house newsletter illustrated with mock front pages of USA Today and The Washington Post and seemingly hyperbolic headlines like: “NASA Laptop Stolen, Potential Compromise of 10,000 Employees’ Private Information!” The catastrophizing turned out to be prescient. Read more on The New York…
iOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls
Don Reisinger reports: Some sleight of hand will allow iOS 6.1 hackers to access your phone application, listen to your voice mails, and place calls. A YouTube video showing users how to “bypass iPhone 5 passcode” on Apple’s latest iOS releases, including iOS 6.1, has been published. The person who uploaded the video shows how anyone can access the…
Google Play privacy breach (updated with Google’s response)
Dan Nolan writes: About a month ago I put my money where my mouth was and built a version of the Paul Keating insult generator for Android (after the iOS version hit number 1 in the Australian App Store [tell your friends]). We sold a few hundred copies on Android in the last month, so…