Jetty Tielemans writes: At a recent presentation in Frankfurt, Peter Hustinx, head of the European Data Protection Supervisor Office in Brussels, launched an intriguing idea: sanctioning violations of data protection law in the same manner as violations of competition law. The trade press regularly reports on multi-million euro fines for cartels or abuses of dominant…
Category: Breaches
GBI arrests Ga. cop for running tag info
From Morris News Service: Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a Commerce police officer this week on charges he ran a license plate check for personal reasons. GBI agents arrested Officer Matthew Scott Rogers, 44, on Tuesday on a single charge of criminal of invasion of privacy using a computer. Read more in the Augusta…
SpamIt, Glavmed Pharmacy Networks Exposed
Brian Krebs writes: An organized crime group thought to include individuals responsible for the notorious Storm and Waledac worms generated more than $150 million promoting rogue online pharmacies via spam and hacking, according to data obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com. In June 2010, an anonymous source using the assumed name “Despduck” began an e-mail correspondence with a key anti-spam…
Security shocker: Android apps send private data in clear
Dan Goodin reports: Cellphones running the Android operating system fail to encrypt data sent to and from Facebook and Google Calendar, shortcomings that could jeopardize hundreds of millions of users’ privacy, a computer scientist says.In a simple exercise for his undergraduate security class, Rice University professor Dan Wallach connected a packet sniffer to his network…