Information Insecurity
The Joy of Tech® ‘Zuck’s OK With Civil Rights Setbacks’
Via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®! Permalink ...
Oops! Oracle Corporation’s BlueKai Exposes Billions Of Records On Interwebs
via Zack Whittaker, writing at TechCrunch (and, via an appreciated H/T), comes a report of the most egregiously enormous data leak this year: This time, it's Oracle Corporations' (NYSE: ORCL) BlueKai's (BlueKai's ...
Treck TCP/IP Library Flaws Discovered, Patches Issued
via Juha Saarinen, writing at Australia's well-regarded ITNews, reports of security failures in the Treck TCP/IP library, comprimising a wide range of supply-chain related IoT infrastructure. A single ray of happy sunshine ...
Graham Cluley Threatened With Legal Action By Information Security Company
via Graham's respected security blog and Gareth Corfield of El Reg, comes word of outrageous and egregious legal buffonery by Keepnet Labs (Keepnet has responded in this release). Highly respected and prolific ...
Check Point Security Researchers: PRC Military APT Group’s Five Year Plan Targeting Australia, Others
View fullsize Holy Mackerel, it's those pesky PRC APT operators again! via Forbes contributor Zak Doffman. h/t 'The military espionage group’s tactics, described by Check Point as “very dangerous,” involved hijacking diplomatic ...
Mobile Carriers’ Free-Speech Rights Compromised By New Privacy Law? Read It And Weep
via Karl Bode, reporting for VICE, comes news of a lawsuit filed by telecom industry shills complaining that a Maine law requiring mobile telephone customers opt-in to having the carriers flog their ...
Forbrukerrådet: New Study’s Conclusion – The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale
Outstanding reports - via Norwegian Forbrukerrådet detailing the systematic criminal behavior exhibited by Advertising Entites and their Ilk, with the resultant aglommeration of data which permits them to collect and store an ...
IPVM Reports: Wyze CEO Blames Employee For Data Loss, Not Company’s Security Posture…
John Honovich - writing at IPVM, categorically exclaims "Stop Blaming Your Employee, Wyze'. Thus rounds out what we like to call the Year of the Data Exfil, and todays' must read on ...
23andMe Flogs Your DNA
Image via Stanford University All the more reason to avoid coughing up your DNA to for (and non-) profit companies. via H/T '"When you give your DNA data to companies like Ancestry.com ...
Litany of Bad Behavior At Bezos’ RING
Based on outrage as to the marketing tactics of Amazon's RING unit (and the serious flaws discovered weekly with this hardware home security solution), I predict signifant lawfare targeting the company, for ...
