Dan Goodin reports: Features in the four major browsers designed to cloak users’ browser history often don’t work as billed, according to a research paper that warns that users may get a false sense of security when using the built-in privacy settings. The private-browsing modes are supposed to allow users to visit a website without…
Category: Breaches
Blumenthal Finds Improper Use Of Bysiewicz Office Database; Probe Concludes With Report, Referral To Chief Prosecutor
Jon Lender reports: State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Thursday that the office of Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz maintained “inappropriate” personal and political information in a taxpayer-funded office database – creating “the reasonable perception that the state database was developed as a useful tool for political campaign purposes.” Blumenthal made those findings in…
Germans sound iPhone attack alarm as Apple claims fix ready
Gregg Keizer reports: Amid a warning by German authorities of possible malicious use of a critical iPhone exploit, Apple said it has a fix ready and will deliver it in the next smartphone update. The exploit first surfaced Sunday, when it was used to “jailbreak” any device running Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. “Jailbreak” is…
HK: Octopus chief resigns over data sales scandal, revenue donated to charity
Amy Wong reports: The chief executive of Hong Kong Octopus Holdings Ltd. has resigned over its scandal of selling almost two million customer’s private data to third party, and the firm will donate HK$44 million ($5.7 million) in revenue to charity. […] The Octopus scandal has escalated with Chan on July 26 admitting that the…