The company providing security for one of the World Cup venues in Brazil accidentally posted a photo containing the secret WiFi password. Does it really matter? Was it even a secret to begin with?
Monthly Archives: June 2014
New York City makes a hash of taxi driver data disclosure
What do you do in your spare time if you’re a self-confessed “urbanist, data junkie and civic hacker,” like New York resident Chris Whong? Use Freedom of Information Laws to find out more about NYC’s taxi movements, of course…
BoringSSL wants kill the excitement that led to Heartbleed
Some things just aren’t meant to be exciting. In fact some things are supposed to be so far from novelty, surprise and frivolity that any whiff of excitement at all is a bad sign indeed. Introducing Boring SSL…
Spam in Canada goes “strictly opt-in” in one week – with only THREE YEARS to comply
It’s been a long, long, long time coming, but spam in Canada really does go “strictly opt-in” on this year’s Canada Day, 01 July 2014. After that, you will have a meagre THREE YEARS to adapt your business practices and acquire express consent from your mailees…
Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.
US House votes “overwhelmingly” to cut funding of NSA surveillance
A strong majority of the US House have voted to cut funding for surveillance on citizens or for planting backdoors that let the government slip past encryption that’s supposed to shield communications. 
‘Yo’ app hacked by college students, hires one of the hackers
A Georgia Tech student claims he and two roommates were able to get any user’s phone number, that they texted the founder (who, he said, called him back), to spam any user, and to send any text they want. Now it looks like one of them will be working for the company.
Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we wrote in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
Privacy and iOS 8, USMS blunder and Cryptowall ransomware – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
One minute of fun with a serious side… 60 Second Security – 21 June 2014
Facebook privacy case to be referred to European Court of Justice
The High Court in Ireland has referred the data-sharing case of Austrian law student, Max Schrems, to the European Court of Justice.