Zack Whitaker reports: Dozens of trips taken using private car service Uber have been cached by Google, making them available to anyone with a simple search term. By site-searching “trip.uber.com” in Google, a list of past trips appear in the search results. These trips are shared by the user from the mobile app, allowing others…
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MasterCard Wants To Scan Your Face
J.E. Reich reports: MasterCard might make identity theft a little bit harder — they’re working toward introducing face scanning software that will determine approval of your purchases. The financial services company is planning to launch a test program this fall with a starter group of 500 MasterCard customers this fall. The app is designed with dead accuracy,…
Mandatory vacation?
Well, I planned to do some news updates while I’m on vacation, but it turns out I couldn’t get a wifi connection at my friend’s home – or an ethernet one. Not sure why my American Apple products are having trouble here and BT support threw up their hands after 49 minutes. So… updating will…
In the exploit biz? FULL DISCLOSURE is your best friend, boffin says
Darren Pauli reports: Auscert Security bod Alfonso De Gregorio says buyers and sellers in the cut-throat exploit marketplace should release their zero-days to the public if they are fleeced. The BeeWise founder says full disclosure of security vulnerabilities helps punish both buyers who fail to pay or on-sell zero-days, and sellers who break contracts and re-sell…
Data breach liability: confidentiality vs. privacy
Glynna Christian and Nikki Mondschein of Kaye Scholer LLP provide food for thought for businesses and covered entities when reviewing contracts with IT service providers: IT service providers, particularly cloud service providers, increasingly are resisting unlimited liability for breaches of privacy and data security obligations in their customer agreements. Instead, they offer unlimited liability for breaches of…
France to enlist hackers to tackle jihadists
France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced that he plans to turn to computer hackers, often the scourge of governments worldwide, in order to infiltrate online jihadist networks. Read more on The Local (FR).