A new threat could be giving up your location when you post a picture from inside your house. A team of scientists dicovered that with some smartphones, a user’s latitude and longitude can be attached tothe picture you post in the metadata.
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Data Loss, this time with Network Solutions
Posted: 27th July 2009 by admin in Hacking News, malware, PCI, Security Assesment, Web SecurityTags: data loss, network solutions, stolen data
Data Loss, this time with Network Solution Network Solutions, one of the largest domain registrars recently announced a data breach. Malicious code was found on its e-commerce server which may have captured transactions from thousands of websites and capturing half a million or more credit cards. The company said they found the code during a [...]
Buying Malware rather than getting it for free
Posted: 22nd May 2009 by admin in Corporate Stupidity, malwareThis kind of incident (see article below) seems to be happening every few months. So you purchase a product (netbook) and it comes infected. No longer do you just have to worry about it working, or if the OS will behave nicely or the drivers will work with your printer. If the manufacturer can not control malware, [...]