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…
Ca: Reported Privacy Breach Involving Human Rights Commission
VOCM reports: There are reports of another privacy breach, this time involving the Human Rights Commission, a division of the provincial Department of Justice. A man in Central Newfoundland says he received a package by registered mail, but instead of the information he was expecting to receive, he got a package intended for another person….
Hacker Who Helped Infect Million Computers Pleads Guilty
Erik Larson reports: A Latvian hacker pleaded guilty in New York to helping develop a virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide, tricking online banking customers into revealing passwords and other security information. Deniss Calovskis, 30, faces as long as two years in prison under a plea deal reached with U.S. prosecutors after being extradited…
How Encryption Can Help Protect Your Personal Information
Commissioner Terrell McSweeny of the FTC writes: High profile car hacks, large-scale breaches of intimate information, news of compromised household appliances — hardly a day passes without some revelation of the ways in which our increasing interconnectedness is introducing new vulnerabilities into our lives. Technology is advancing at a rapid clip, and so are breaches….
FTC gives Feds the finger over backdoor encryption demands
Kevin McCarthy reports: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fired a second shot at the Feds over its demand for backdoors in encryption systems. Following a blog post last month by the regulator’s CTO in which he outlined why he was glad to have strong firmware encryption after his laptop was stolen, today FTC Commissioner Terrell…
IE: Permanent TSB confirms data breach of 100 customer details
RTÉ News reports: Permanent TSB has confirmed it has reported a data breach to the Data Protection Commissioner. The bank said the breach involved account information relating to less than 100 customers being mistakenly emailed to an unrelated customer. It is also believed that notes of meetings customers had with bank staff were also included….