Stewart Mitchell reports: Facebook security has once again come under the spotlight after the account of the social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg was hacked. Links to the official Zuckerberg page on the social network are currently coming back with a message saying “the page you requested was not found,” but earlier it was displaying a…
Category: Breaches
Tunisia plants country-wide keystroke logger on Facebook – Gmail and Yahoo! too
John Leyden reports: Malicious code injected into Tunisian versions of Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo! stole login credentials of users critical of the North African nation’s authoritarian government, according to security experts and news reports. The rogue JavaScript, which was individually customized to steal passwords for each site, worked when users tried to login without availing…
UK: Privacy watchdog urges stronger data protection in EU law review
Organisations which lose personal data should be forced to disclose the data security breach, the European Union’s privacy watchdog has said. Planned changes to EU privacy law do not go far enough, said the official. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx has published an opinion urging the European Commission to extend the obligation…
Nesbitt awards woman $40K for privacy breach
Robert Todd reports: A British Columbia doctor has been forced to pay his ex-wife $40,000 for breach of privacy and defamation after accessing private information about her on an old home computer and publishing it online and in e-mails. The case, Nesbitt v. Neufeld, saw businesswoman Wendy Neufeld go after damages from her ex-husband, Patrick…