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Caller ID spoofers raid online banking accounts
March 16, 2012
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY, 16March2012, P1B
Cyberthieves are stepping up phone-calling scams to pilfer from consumers’ online banking accounts.
In the second half of 2011, Pindrop Security detected more than 1 million fraudulent calls, including 189,439 in December, a 52% spike from the 124,258 calls tracked in July, according to a first of its kind reporte released Thursday.
“Mobile is a growth area for online banking fraud,” says Stan …More
Cyber attacks on mobile devices gain meaningful traction
March 7, 2012
Something the security community has been fretting about for a few years, seems to have finally arrived in earnest: cybercriminals are going mobile.
Nearly one in five mobile phone users have experienced some type of security threat with their device. That’s the finding of a Cloudmark survey of 1,000 cellphone users, scheduled to be released Tuesday.
Poisoned text messages, nearly non-existent in the U.S. a few years ago, …More
Will Congress make Obama’s Privacy Bill of Rights law?
February 23, 2012
Getting a divided Congress to pass any hard-edged privacy legislation is the next big hurdle President Obama faces in getting his Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights made the law of the land.
“We urge the Administration to ensure that it carries out this process in a fair and transparent manner, and that consumer voices are heard and acted on,” Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection at Consumer Federation …More
Obama calls for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
February 23, 2012
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY, 23FEB2012, P1B
The White House on Wednesday unveiled a strongly worded “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights’’ as the linchpin for a drive to get Congress to pass new laws protecting consumers privacy as they surf the Internet.
The announcement came as Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and attorneys general from 35 other states sent a letter to Google complaining about a new …More
Microsoft-Google privacy tussle widens spotlight on invasive practices
February 22, 2012
By Byron Acohido
USA TODAY, 22Feb2012, P1B
Mud-slinging between tech rivals is nothing new. But the red hot issue of online privacy has pushed it to another level.
Last week Google scrambled to deflect criticism that it tracked the online activities of users’ of Apple’s Safari web browser against their wishes, by circumventing an anti-tracking mechanism.
On Tuesday the search giant lashed out at Microsoft in response to …More
Google takes heat for tracking Safari users against their wishes
February 17, 2012
Yet more evidence of the gold rush to harvest and store profiling data on Internet users:
Google came under fire today by several members of Congress after a Stanford University grad student disclosed how the search giant has been tracking the online activities of users of Apple’s Safari web browser, despite the default use of a browser mechanism to block such tracking.
Jonathan Mayer, a grad student and …More
Path privacy gaffe highlights gold rush for mobile users’ data
February 16, 2012
Apple on Wednesday moved to quell the rising furor over disclosures that social network Path and several other makers of iOS apps collect and store users address books without asking their permission.
The tech giant said it would require third-party suppliers of applications in its App Store to secure user approval to use address book data, including full …More
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