Error-laden phone location data suspended from use in Danish courts

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:10:11 +0000

10,700 cases will be reviewed over 2 months, and 32 detainees have already been released after finding bugs in software and raw telecom data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/yIUHlMMyAfY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:48:41 +0000

The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UVANipcvTu0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google & Apple pushed to reveal gun scope app users’ names to feds

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:50:48 +0000

It’s a first: The government has never demanded personal data of a single app’s users from Apple &#38; Google.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SKydWWr9YsM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook expands use of face recognition

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:38:46 +0000

Facebook’s replaced “tag suggestions” with “face recognition” – a setting Facebook says may help to save us from identity thieves.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/E2d_NAvFEnQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:44:37 +0000

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GTqVr4bD8sE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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YouTube reportedly to be fined up to $200m over COPPA investigation

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:07:20 +0000

It’s a gnat bite, critics say: The FTC’s reported fine would be worth about two to three months of YouTube ad revenue.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/shNXqHcY-RY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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FBI asks Google for help finding criminals

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:39:18 +0000

FBI agents issued Google with a warrant in November 2018, seeking its help with a bank robbery the month before.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/jfyUzpPb6Ww” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Capital One cryptojacking suspect indicted

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:39:21 +0000

The former software engineer allegedly created scanners to look for misconfigured servers rented from a cloud computing company.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/au_7MSrus80″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook: ‘Technical error’ let strangers into Messenger Kids chats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:58:00 +0000

It won’t happen again, Facebook told senators who wondered how well it’s handling kids’ privacy in the chat app abhorred by kids advocates.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A2XiqyuYDg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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