Caroline McCarthy reports: Twitter’s equivalent of an elusive masked bandit was caught in France this week, according to an Agence France-Presse story citing police sources, after the FBI began working with authorities there. A 25-year-old who goes by the name “Hacker Croll,” believed to be responsible for two high-profile Twitter hacking incidents in which both…
Category: Breaches
Google Alerts Gmail Users to Suspicious Logins
Riva Richmond reports: Google has introduced a new security feature that alerts Gmail users whose e-mail accounts may have been broken into by a malicious intruder and helps them regain full control. In a blog post Wednesday, Google said that if it sees unusual account activity, such as an uncharacteristic login from a computer with…
Dutch prosecutors stop tapping lawyers’ phones
Jan Meeus and Merel Thie report: What do a miracle doctor, a shrink, a lawyer and an imam have in common? Their professions are all on a list of words compiled by the Dutch public prosecutor for what is its biggest inquiry ever. All over the Netherlands, millions of transcripts of phone taps are currently…
Two U.K. security companies found in breach of privacy rules
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served enforcement notices on SAS Fire & Security Systems Ltd and Direct Response Security Systems Limited after both companies breached the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) by making unsolicited marketing calls. The ICO received numerous complaints via the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) and individuals who had been contacted…