Like many services already do, Facebook’s now going to mix in our browsing histories with the advertising stew. It’s also introducing a tool that lets us see (and edit) the dossiers they keep on us, so we can finally get a glimpse into why they think we like what they seem to think we like. 
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Apple’s iOS 8 will help keep out Wi-Fi marketers and snoops, but not totally
A small change in iOS 8 will make privacy advocates happy, although it’s going to be a tough pill to swallow for mobile marketers.
US court finds warrantless tracking of mobile phones unconstitutional
In what the ACLU calls a “huge victory”, an appeals court on Wednesday ruled that such warrantless search violates the US Constitution. 
Here’s what bugging your own office NSA-style can reveal
A US reporter for National Public Radio found that NSA-style broad surveillance enabled by a pen-testing device and software crunching picked up on his research (in spite of Google’s default search encryption), intercepted uncut interview tape, ferreted out his interview subjects’ phone numbers and email addresses, and more. Still think there’s nobody out there interested in your boring data points?
FCC DoSed into silence as John Oliver roused net neutrality trolls
Within hours of the comedian’s brilliant, 13-minute rant, the FCC’s comment section was crushed by a database DoS attack. The DoS rendered the site incapable of accepting any public comment at all, be it trollery or sanity.
SSCC 151 – Measuring vulns, Apple and Wi-Fi privacy, Android ransomware and more [PODCAST]
It’s our weekly security pocast! Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn…
Twitter jumps to block XSS worm in Tweetdeck
A cross-site scripting flaw was disclosed this morning affecting the popular Twitter application Tweetdeck. It has now been fixed, but not before it wormed its way through thousands of browsers.
P.F. Chang’s investigates possible credit card breach
Restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro says it is investigating claims of a data breach which may have led to debit and credit card details being posted on an underground forum.
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, June 2014 – both Adobe and Microsoft close “remotable” holes
Microsoft fixed 59 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer alone this month. Is that worryingly bad, or pleasingly good? Paul Ducklin investigates what actually came down the chute in the June 2014 Patch Tuesday…
Is TrueCrypt pining for the fjords?
An attempt at keeping the TrueCrypt dream alive has been kicked off, hosted in Switzerland. Will it make a difference? Sophos conducted a poll to see what IT managers think about TrueCrypt after all the news and speculation.