Thomas Claburn reports: Computer users are willing to accept device profiling if it leads to improved security and less sharing of personal information, according to a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, an independent privacy research organization.The study, Online Consumers’ Reaction to Device Fingerprinting, was sponsored by ThreatMetrix, a security company that sells device profiling…
Category: Breaches
One in eight Brits hit by identity theft
Shaun Nichols reports: A recent study has estimated that one in eight adults in the UK have been the victim of online fraud or identity theft. The survey, conducted by research firm YouGov and backed by online security vendor VeriSign, polled roughly 2,100 adults in the UK. Some 12 per cent said that they had…
Secret Service Receives Junk Fax; Phones Florida to Learn More About This Exciting Investment Opportunity
Thomas Francis reports: A Boca Raton man has entered a guilty plea in a Kansas court to charges that he was part of a conspiracy to defraud investors across North America. The case against John Persaud started the moment that one of his firm’s junk faxes arrived in the Wichita, Kansas, office of the U.S….
Privacy issues plague Facebook users – yet again
Steve Ragan reports: Over the weekend, there was an interesting bit of news out of the social networking world, which once again places the privacy protection and controls offered by Facebook in the spotlight. A post on Reddit described a Google search that displayed notes written by Facebook users, and with those notes, a good…