O’Reilly Radar: Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 14:57
"Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. … All iPhones appear to log your location to a file called "consoli…
Telegraph: Secrets put on internet in Whitehall blunders
Monday, 18 April 2011, 10:19
Haven't we heard all this before? Amazing this still happens: "Some officials use a software programme such as Photoshop to paste a black patch over secret text, obscuring it but not removing it. When documents are edited in this way, normal …
CBS Evening News: Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 08:44
"Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine. In the process, it's turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data."
Channel 4 News: Twitter hack hits cabinet and bank
Friday, 26 February 2010, 17:25
"The Twitter accounts of two cabinet ministers, an online bank and the press complaints commission are among those falling victim to a hack promoting sex aids."
Guardian: Guardian Jobs website hacked
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 14:13
"The Guardian has contacted some users of its UK Jobs site to say that a "sophisticated and deliberate hack" means personal data may have been accessed. Not all users are affected, and the hack does not affect the separate US site"
Guardian: Charlie’s Angles: The micropayments argument: do we want to turn the web into Zimbabwe?
Friday, 13 February 2009, 18:23
Charles Arthur: "[H]ere's another micropayments problem. Assume for a moment that you did get a micropayment system up and running. Malware writers would target it in a heartbeat."
Telegraph: BBC customers deluged by spam after hackers break into mailing list
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 08:14
"Names and e-mail addresses on a BBC mailing list were exploited by hackers to send "spam", or unwanted e-mail…"
The Industry Standard: Wikileaks posts Bill O’Reilly Web site data
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 13:59
"Hackers were able to obtain a list of Billoreilly.com premium members, including email addresses, site passwords and the city and state where they live."
The Register: Scotland’s oldest newspaper exposes readers’ smalls in public
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 08:42
"Scottish newspaper The Aberdeen Press and Journal inadvertently made it easy to harvest sensitive information about registered users from its site as a result of a basic information security mistake. … The paper got its developers to fix the problem promptly, only hours after we relayed the concerns of Reg readers on Monday."
Wired.com: Danger Room: Estonia, Google Help ‘Cyberlocked’ Georgia
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 14:31
"Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:47
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"For years, Deutsche Telekom hired outside companies to spy on journalists and members of its own supervisory board, hoping to uncover internal leaks."
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 18:22
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"[A]ccording to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press[,] the Homeland Security Department ran [a war game] to test the nation’s hacker defenses, with help from the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA,
Saturday, 17 November 2007, 08:44
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"[M]alware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball’s MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their ad
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 15:15
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"Office 2.0 attendees say IT workers reluctant to change traditional processes" So very, very true.
