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?
Tag Archives: Privacy
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…
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. 
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.
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…
Does Facebook’s Slingshot commit true imagicide? Or is it another Snapchat?
“Disappear forever” didn’t mean much when Snapchat said it. Neither Snapchat nor Facebook’s newly released Slingshot stops anybody from taking a screenshot or snapping a photo of the receiving device with another camera, for one thing. 
France World Cup team training session snooped on by a “spy drone”
France is shaking its fist at what it thinks may have been a spy drone buzzing its football team as it practiced for Sunday’s opening game. FIFA is investigating. 