If you use a wireless app for banking, you’ll want to read this. Spencer E. Ante reports: A number of top financial companies and banks such as Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp. and USAA are rushing out updates to fix security flaws in wireless banking applications that could allow a computer criminal…
Category: Breaches
Facebook Responds to Firesheep WiFi Security Controversy
Kashmir Hill discusses the current controversy over a Firefox add-on, Firesheep, that allows a user who has installed it to hijack social media accounts (or any accounts, for that matter) that are open over an unsecured wi-fi connection (think Starbucks). Since the add-on was released, a lot of people, this blogger included, have asked why…
IE: Media outlets did not breach privacy of sexually abused children, court rules
The High Court has ruled there was no breach, in reports and broadcasts by three media organisations, of the right to privacy of two children who was sexually abused. The children had claimed that reports in the media of the conviction of a man who had attacked both her and another child resulted in their…
UK: Information Commissioner announces outcome of Google Street View investigation
Once again, Google escapes serious consequences over its capture personal information from unsecured wi-fi connections. The press release from the ICO: Google UK will be subject to an audit and must sign an undertaking to ensure data protection breaches do not occur again or they will face enforcement action, Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said today….