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Even with the explanations provided by Facebook about how their cookies helped protect the users, many remained skeptical of the true purpose of these cookies. Unwilling to take the company’s word as is, Representatives Joe Barton of Texas and Ed Markey of Massachusetts sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting for an […]

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Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, says his newly-introduced legislation, the Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011 will protect individuals’ personally identifiable information from data theft and penalize firms that don’t adequately secure their customers’ information. Naturally, there are skeptics. The bill would establish ” appropriate minimum security plans” for businesses with 10,000 or […]

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Websense Security LabsT and the Websense ThreatSeekerR Network have detected malicious emails posing as a consumer complaint notice from the Federal Trade Commission.    Using names of government agencies as a ploy in this kind of malicious attack is anything but new.  We have reported that both the National Security Agency and the Federal Reserve were used in malicious […]

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