O’Reilly Radar: Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves

Posted on 20 April, 2011 by Martin Stabe

"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 "consolidated.db." This contains latitude-longitude coordinates along with a timestamp. ... All iPhones appear to log your location to a file called "consolidated.db." This contains latitude-longitude coordinates along with a timestamp."

Telegraph: Secrets put on internet in Whitehall blunders

Posted on 18 April, 2011 by Martin Stabe

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 home or office software can disclose the obscured text."

CBS Evening News: Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets

Posted on 11 May, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 26 February, 2010 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 25 October, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"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?

Posted on 13 February, 2009 by Martin Stabe

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

Posted on 23 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 20 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 3 September, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"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

Posted on 12 August, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains."

Spiegel Online: German Corporate Spying Scandal Widens

Posted on 9 June, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"For years, Deutsche Telekom hired outside companies to spy on journalists and members of its own supervisory board, hoping to uncover internal leaks."

AP: Trains, bloggers are threats in drill

Posted on 31 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"[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,

Wired: Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

Posted on 17 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"[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

Computer World: IT is a key barrier to corporate Web 2.0 adoption, users say

Posted on 19 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Office 2.0 attendees say IT workers reluctant to change traditional processes" So very, very true.

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