Chris Brook reports: Researchers are encouraging Android users who may have downloaded a popular caller identification application to update, as a previous version of the app inadvertently leaked user information. The app, Truecaller, specializes in phone call management and has been installed at least 100,000,000 times, according to its listing on Google’s Play marketplace. While…
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FTC Approves Final Order in Oracle Java Security Case
After a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order resolving the Commission’s complaint against Oracle alleging that the company deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Platform Standard Edition software. The settlement was first announced in December 2015. In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Oracle was aware…
Grand Ole Opry Parent Company Falls Victim to Phishing Scam
Today’s reminder that we’re not done with all the phishing that snagged employee W-2 data. Nashville’s Ryman Hospitality Properties has fallen victim to a fraudulent phishing scam that resulted in employees’ IRS W-2 information, which includes Social Security numbers, being disclosed externally, Billboard has learned. The company is parent to entertainment brands the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium and legendary…
Chinese Browsers Leave Users Vulnerable, Report Says
Dow Jones Business reports: China’s top three Web browsers collected and transmitted data in insecure ways, making hundreds of millions of users’ personal information vulnerable to unauthorized access, according to a human-rights research group. In a report published Tuesday, the University of Toronto’sCitizen Lab said Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s QQ Browser had been transmitting users’ data…
Hackers reportedly access OpSec employee data
How embarrassing would it be to have a firm named OpSec Security that advertises it’s “trusted by over 400 companies and 50 government agencies” – and then it falls for a phishing scheme? Tim Stuhldreher reports: In the wake of a data breach, an anti-counterfeiting company with local sales and manufacturing operations is advising its employees to be…
FBI issues warning to law firms
Linn Foster Freedman of Robinson & Cole writes: The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification to law firms indicating that a cyber crime insider trading ring is targeting “international law firm information used to facilitate business ventures.” According to the FBI “[T]he scheme involves a hacker compromising the law firm’s computer networks and monitoring…