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Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here’s what they are looking at…
9to5mac.com
A hacker group called SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information including a mail server login/password dump as well as logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. The hack seems to be in retaliation for the working conditions that have been all the rage in the news...
Luluvise shows where your data can end up
www.guardian.co.uk
Women-only social network Luluvise lets its members rate the men they've dated – but should they be posting personal sensitive data without the men's permission?Luluvise describes itself as "a social network for women". It's loved by the technology media, racking up plenty of friendly articles since its launch late last...
Big data + cloud computing = $25M from Silicon Valley’s biggest VCs
venturebeat.com
Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a-total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights like Battery, Greylock, and Lightspeed to the table. This is the startup’s third round of institutional funding, and...
IBM bans Siri on its networks over worries that Apple may store sensitive data
thenextweb.com
Worried that Apple may be able to store sensitive queries and potential company secrets, IBM has put the kibosh on the use of Siri on its networks, Wired reports. IBM CIO Jeanette Horan confirmed that Big Blue had imposed the restriction, telling the publication that the company “worries that the spoken...
In Mobile Apps, Free Ain’t Free, But Cambridge University Has A Plan To Fix It
techcrunch.com
The issue of information privacy around free services like some mobile apps and social networks has often been met with a rebuttal from the other side of the argument: if the service is free, you the user are the product, and so you shouldn’t be surprised when your information is...
Cloud Security: DataLocker Lets You Encrypt Your Sensitive Dropbox Files For Free
techcrunch.com
We’re all becoming increasingly reliant on consumer cloud services, as cloud storage providers like Dropbox make it easy to share and store files, folders, images, sync between platforms, and more. They make our lives easier, but because they store an enormous amount of potentially sensitive data, there are some inherent...
Averail Raises $6M To Help Enterprises Share Documents On Mobile Devices
techcrunch.com
Stealthy startup Averail has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Foundation Capital and Storm Ventures. In addition, the company has appointed Paul Holland, General Partner at Foundation Capital, and Tae Hea Nahm, Managing Director at Storm Ventures, to its Board of Directors. While some of the details...
CloudLock aims to bring PCI compliance to Google Drive
gigaom.com
CloudLock CEO Gil Zimmermann CloudLock, the Waltham, Mass.-based startup specializing in cloud security, says it’s bringing PCI compliance to Google Drive storage with a service that scans data as it flows into and out of the data repository. The growing popularity of cloud-based storage services, such as Google Drive. The...
SpiderOak: Dropbox for the security obsessive
arstechnica.com
Helpdesk and IT support staff should find this scenario familiar: a user with a desktop, a laptop, a netbook, a smartphone, and a computer or two at home wants a way to keep their files synchronized across all of them at all times. The rise of cloud services and...
Stripe attracts $18M in funding at $100M valuation
venturebeat.com
Stripe, an online-payment system company going after PayPal, is said to have raised $18 million at $1oo million valuation from Sequoia Capital and other investors, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The deal has not been finalized but a few unnamed sources revealed that Sequoia was responsible for $17 million of the funding. Lawyer Michael...
Mobile app security startup Appthority raises $6.25m from Venrock, USVP
thenextweb.com
With smartphone penetration rising worldwide, resulting in the unstoppable increase in downloads and available distribution channels for available mobile apps, businesses can no longer afford to not think about riding the mobile wave. But there is a certain degree of risk involved with using mobile applications in an enterprise environment,...
DARPA Director Regina Dugan Leaves Defense Department For Google
techcrunch.com
Today brings some rather high-profile recruiting from Google: the director of DARPA, the Department of Defense’s research arm, is leaving after three years of heading the agency to join Google at a “senior executive position.” The news comes from a DARPA spokesman, who reports that Dugan felt she couldn’t refuse...
Attack against Microsoft scheme puts hundreds of crypto apps at risk
arstechnica.com
An overview of the MS-CHAPv2 used by hundreds of VPN- and WPA2-based security products. CloudCracker.com Researchers have devised an attack against a Microsoft-developed authentication scheme that makes it trivial to break the encryption used by hundreds of anonymity and security services, including the iPredator virtual private network offered to...
SpiderOak: Dropbox for the security obsessive
arstechnica.com
Helpdesk and IT support staff should find this scenario familiar: a user with a desktop, a laptop, a netbook, a smartphone, and a computer or two at home wants a way to keep their files synchronized across all of them at all times. The rise of cloud services and...
Biometric voice analysis of Trayvon Martin case concludes it was not George Zimmerman’s screams on 911 call
venturebeat.com
The controversial killing of teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman has become a national flashpoint for discussions of race and violence. Technology has now entered into the narrative, after an expert in biometric voice analysis said the screams on the 911 most likely did not belong to Zimmerman. The...
Biometric voice analysis of Trayvon Martin case concludes it was not George Zimmerman’s screams on 911 call
Pastebin to police hackers' posts
www.bbc.co.uk
The owner of Pastebin says he plans to hire more staff to ensure any "sensitive" data exposed by hackers can be removed....
90% of popular SSL sites vulnerable to exploits, researchers find
arstechnica.com
Less than 10 percent of the most popular websites offering Secure Socket Layer protection are hardened against known attacks that could allow hackers to decrypt or tamper with encrypted traffic, researchers said Thursday. The grim figure was generated by SSL Pulse, a website that monitors the effectiveness of the...
Outrage as credit agency plans to mine Facebook data
gigaom.com
Everyone knows Facebook is full of interesting data that’s being exploited in all sorts of ways –- whether by startups building businesses on the social graph, or employers who are vetting job candidates using the site. But here’s a way in which you might not want your data mined: to...
Nortel Networks hackers had "access to everything" for years
arstechnica.com
Nortel Networks suffered a security breach that for almost a decade gave attackers with Chinese IP addresses access to executive network accounts, technical papers, employee emails and other sensitive documents at the once-thriving telecommunications firm, The Wall Street Journal reported (subscription required). The publication, citing a former 19-year Nortel...
Zynga's YoVille gets hacked
news.cnet.com
Hackers infiltrate the social game affecting gameplay and stealing users' virtual goods, but private and sensitive data isn't compromised. [Read more]...
To Lock Down Mobile Apps, Cenzic Launches New App Testing Tools
techcrunch.com
Software and SaaS security company Cenzic is today launching a new security product for mobile application developers which will allow for the testing of mobile apps on any platform – iOS, Android, J2ME, and more. The product will be the first that can test products without requiring developers to submit...
FTC: Privacy Requirements May Be Relaxed for Small, Maybe Big Companies
www.readwriteweb.com
It's beginning to look a lot more like a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Suggestions" as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission today made recommendations about limiting the scope of any "Bill of Rights" emerging from the President's suggestions last February 23rd. Already, the framework is being presented as voluntary criteria for...
SSNs on P2P? The Feds found businesses that leaked private information
arstechnica.com
saschaaa Back in 2010, the FTC conducted a probe revealing that a lot of sensitive customer data could be found on P2P networks, uploaded by companies that had pledged to safeguard that data. That led the FTC to investigate more specific impropriety, and today the Federal Trade Commission charged...
Major Android vulnerability gives apps access to sensitive data without permission
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The security of the Android mobile platform has always been a topic of debate. Due to Google’s open ecosystem and less invasive app policing policies, researchers argue that the Google Play marketplace is home to numerous malicious apps. Reports have surfaced over the past few years that claimed even...
Norton Identity Safe locks your passwords in the cloud, spares your failing memory
www.engadget.com
Norton's Identity Safe is a free online service that aims to end the curse of forgotten passwords. If you've got a few social networking accounts, then keeping track of all your keys can be tough. This service remembers all of your log-in details and inputs them automatically when you...
iOS in-app purchasing fix can't be bypassed, hacker admits 'the game is over'
www.theverge.com
Apple's workaround for the iOS in-app purchasing exploit has made it impossible to be re-hacked, according to Alexey Borodin, the Russian hacker that developed the original attack. Through a relatively simple process that involved sending sensitive data to Borodin's servers, users were able to obtain in-app purchases without paying....
Notey, A Super Simple Way To Share Sensitive Notes
techcrunch.com
Go here and use the password techcrunch. Notey is that simple. Just put your super secret message in the text input box, create a password, then share the URL and password. Done. Adam Sewell of MyGeek Computer Services created the little app to more easily share sensitive data. With Notey...
Why Your Company Won't Let You Use Your iPad At Work
www.businessinsider.com
A new phenom is hitting the enterprise known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and it will have a huge impact on our jobs in the next five years. BYOD sounds simple: let employees choose their own devices and software and let them use their personal devices like smartphones...
99% of NASA's portable devices are unencrypted
arstechnica.com
NASA could stand to tighten up the security of its data, according to a report filed with the US House of Representatives Wednesday. Virtually none of the agency's portable devices are encrypted, and 48 of them were lost or stolen between April 2009 and April 2011. One of those...
Head of iOS security to speak at Black Hat for the first time
arstechnica.com
Apple Platform Security Manager Dallas De Atley is scheduled to present a talk at the annual Black Hat security conference on July 26. The talk, which will focus on "key security technologies in iOS," is the first official appearance by Apple since the conference's inception 15 years ago, and may...
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