Joan Goodchild reports: Researchers have found a flaw in Skype, the popular Voice-over-Internet-Protocol service which allows users to make video phone calls and internet chat with their computers. The vulnerability can expose your location, identity and the content you’re downloading. Microsoft, which owns Skype, says they are working on the problem. The issue was uncovered…
Category: Breaches
FL: Woman finds her Social Security number written on parking ticket
I’ve covered this type of situation before, but it’s always useful to remind people that risk is all around us. From KUSA in Florida: Most people don’t like coming back to their car to find a parking ticket, but what one local woman found written on a ticket she received came as even more of…
U.K.: ICO ‘too scared’ to clobber press for data breaches
Brid-Aine Parnell reports: A senior investigator for the Information Commissioner’s Office has told the Leveson inquiry he was warned off pursuing the press for data breaches by his bosses. Alexander Owen, also a former police officer, had been looking into possible breaches of the Data Protection Act by a south London private investigation agency when…
SAG Says Woman Who Sued IMDb for Revealing Age Has ‘Legitimate’ Fear of Being Blacklisted
Based on comments I’ve read around the web, this blog may be one of the few that thinks an actress who sued IMDB for revealing her true birthdate raised some legitimate concerns (other coverage on this blog here and here). But Eriq Gardner reports that the actress just got some probably welcome support from an executive and…