Google’s planning to slurp up ever more data, from wearables, fitness apps and more. It sure would be nice for Google if the Street View fiasco would fade away and stop reminding people of how they snooped on data and then lied about it, but the Supreme Court isn’t disposed to helping it out on this one. 
Tag Archives: Data loss
Canadian spam, New York taxis and Brazilian passwords – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Canada goes “opt in”, NYC makes a hash, and Brazil forgets its punctuation. It’s 60 Second Security for 28 June 2014!
Is that Google Glass wearer stealing your iPad passcode?
What about the one with a smartwatch? Snoopers can catch your code from nearly 10 feet away with Google Glass or Samsung’s smartwatch and from almost 150 away using a HD camcorder, thanks to researchers’ custom-coded, shadow-tracking recognition algorithm.
37% of Canadian Justice Department fail phishing awareness test
An in-house awareness test run late last year at Department of Justice Canada has revealed that a good percentage of its employees are for the most part fairly easy to trick with phishing scams. 
Cupid Media “breached Privacy act” after storing users’ passwords in plain text
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has ruled that Cupid Media Pty Ltd – of OKCupid dating site fame – breached the Privacy Act following a data breach which saw over 40 million customer records exposed.
Carwash POS systems hacked, credit card data drained
Police in the US state of Massachusetts have busted what they say is a gang of thieves who were buying stolen credit cards and using them to buy gift cards that were then sometimes exhausted of their balance, washed clean of data and reloaded with more stolen credit card data.
‘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.
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
Email gaffe unmasks ‘anonymous’ bidders in Bitcoin auction
Somebody at the US Marshals Service goofed, cc’ing a list of 40 people who’d written to inquire about what was supposed to be an anonymous auction of the Bitcoins seized in the Fed’s raid on Silk Road. 
SSCC 152 – PF Chang’s, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of scammers [PODCAST]
Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week’s security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the latest issues…