TJ McIntyre writes: I’m indebted to Rossa McMahon and Daragh O’Brien for pointing out (via Twitter) two interesting provisions in the Finance Bill 2011 (PDF). Section 71 creates a new revenue offence of possessing or using computer tools for the purpose of evading tax: […] Section 73, meanwhile, creates what is in effect a parallel data protection system…
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Facebook settles with Germany over Friend Finder issue
Jeremy Kirk reports: Germany is stopping short of legal action against Facebook after reaching a 14-point agreement on Monday over how the site handles data from non-Facebook users. Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority took issue with Facebook last August over its Friend Finder feature, which imports e-mail addresses from user contact lists on other e-mail services…
The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks
It was on Christmas Day that Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan first noticed strange things going on in Tunisia. Reports started to trickle in that political-protest pages were being hacked. “We were getting anecdotal reports saying, ‘It looks like someone logged into my account and deleted it,’” Sullivan said. For Tunisians, it was another…
Tunisia plants country-wide keystroke logger on Facebook – Gmail and Yahoo! too
John Leyden reports: Malicious code injected into Tunisian versions of Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo! stole login credentials of users critical of the North African nation’s authoritarian government, according to security experts and news reports. The rogue JavaScript, which was individually customized to steal passwords for each site, worked when users tried to login without availing…