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emailMassachusetts Attorney General Victim of iTunes Fraud
Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley admitted she is an identity theft victim after someone stole her credit card information to make fraudulent iTunes purchases. According to this article, when she was asked whether such fraud constitutes a reportable data-breach crime, she said her office would be looking into that question and demanding answers from Apple. Read More
Out-Smart GPS Tracking: New Online Security Tips for You
Posted on Thursday, July 21st, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Check out this article and read more about the five new entries that are now part of private-i’s “How To” section. From mobile-phone privacy to managing browser security settings, it’s never been easier to protect your privacy online. Want to learn a trick to out-smart GPS tracking via your smartphone? We’ve got that covered too!
Inside the Mind of an iPad Hacker: Helpful or Hurtful?
Posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Two men, part of a hacker group known as Goatse Security, have been accused of breaking into servers run by AT&T in order to steal the email addresses of more than 120,000 iPad customers. Possible victims of the hacking include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, news anchor Diane Sawyer, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Senator Quizzes Apple, Google, Microsoft Over Consumer Privacy Rights
Posted on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal has asked executives at Apple, Google, Nokia, Blackberry maker Research in Motion, Skyhook, and Microsoft about how they collect data from private wireless networks to create maps of WiFi service. Citing privacy concerns, Blumenthal wrote in the letter that “attempting to document the locations of personal wireless networks in individuals’ homes without their knowledge or consent raises issues of what constitutes a reasonable expectation of privacy for an ordinary citizen.” This article on Bloomberg.com explains more about the Senator’s issues, as well as other wireless news affecting the big search and smartphone providers.
‘Disruption by Design’ – Trends From the Wired Business Conference
Posted on Monday, May 16th, 2011 by Kent Lawson
CEO Kent Lawson attended the annual Wired Business Conference in New York, and the theme was how discontinuous change occurs in an industry. In other words, disruption in an industry always comes from the outside. Those inside the industry are good at incremental improvements, but it is hard for them to see things very far outside their familiar context. It takes an outsider’s view to envision things dramatically different from how they currently are. Read on for more trends and insights from the conference. Read More
Online Privacy Q&A With Robert Vamosi, Author of ‘When Gadgets Betray Us’
Posted on Thursday, May 5th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
We recently chatted about online privacy and other security issues with Robert Vamosi, award-winning tech journalist for Forbes.com and author of When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of our Infatuation with New Technologies. Vamosi says he was inspired to write the book – which he calls “the first hardware hacking book written for a mass audience” – because gadgets now outnumber the PC on the Internet by 5 to 1. Before you open the box and set up your new smartphone or iPad, take a few minutes to read his thoughts about online security, WiFi safety, mobile viruses, the impact of the massive data breaches at Sony and Epsilon, and much more. Read More
Apple Stores Hit By Crime Spree Using Identity Theft, Thousands Of Stolen Credit Cards
Posted on Monday, February 7th, 2011
Twenty-seven people have been charged with forming an identity-theft ring that used thousands of stolen credit card numbers to purchase items at Apple stores throughout the country. Although it is still unclear how the group obtained the credit card numbers, this article on The Huffington Post notes that the U.S. Secret Service is expected to unveil a major cybercrime case in the wake of this news. The article also says prosecutors allege that one leader “had thousands of stolen credit card numbers stored in emails and boasted via Twitter about using credit cards at restaurants [and] continued to oversee the operations of this conspiracy by communicating instructions via telephone while incarcerated from last May to December 2010.”
Computer Privacy: Two Are Charged With Fraud in iPad Security Breach
Posted on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Two men who are associated with a loose group of hackers and programmers, and who have previously exposed the security vulnerabilities on Apple computing devices, have been arrested for conspiracy to access a computer without authorization and one count of fraud. The New York Times reports that some think blame could be “leveled at both sides” since the men claimed “all data was gathered from a public Web server with no password, accessible by anyone on the Internet.”
Private Communication? The iPhone, iPad Meet Skype Video
Posted on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 by Elaine Rigoli
Available on both 3G and WiFi networks, new Skype 3.0 upgrades support making video calls on the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and 4th-generation iPod touch. It also enables users to receive video calls on the iPad and the 3rd-generation iPod touch. But are you sure your privacy is protected on Skype? Read More
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