John Leyden reports: Tumblr’s iOS app fails to log users in through a secure (SSL) server, it has emerged. As a result users’ plaintext passwords are exposed to anyone able to sniff traffic on any Wi-Fi network an iOS user happens to use to connect to the popular cats’n’grumble free-content platform. The wide-open security howler…
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Microsoft denies giving NSA direct access to email
Grant Gross reports: Microsoft does not give the U.S. National Security agency direct access to its customers’ email or instant messages, contrary to previous news reports, a company executive said. News reports last week suggested that Microsoft has helped the NSA circumvent the company’s own encryption in order to conduct surveillance on email accounts through Outlook.com, but…
Twitter hands over data on anti-Semitic tweeters
The Local reports: Twitter has handed over data to French authorities to help identify the authors of anti-Semitic tweets following a complaint from a Jewish students’ group, AFP reported on Friday. Twitter said in a statement that it had given information to judicial authorities “enabling the identification of some authors” of anti-Semitic tweets.. A French…
UK: ICO continues crackdown on nuisance calls as energy company fined £45,000
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a Manchester company with a monetary penalty of £45,000 for blighting the public with unwanted marketing calls. The ICO proposed to issue a fine of £90,000 but have had to take into account the company’s financial situation and reduce the penalty to £45,000. Tameside Energy…