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Google Wallet PINs easily stolen from rooted devices

Feb

2012

Joshua Rubin, a security engineer with zvelo, disclosed his research into the (in)security of Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a new near field communication (NFC) electronic wallet that allows customers to pay for everyday purchases by entering a PIN on their Android smartphone and tapping it on a receiver, similar to Mastercard PayPass.What Rubin discovered […]

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Massachusetts Attorney General to investigate iTunes fraud

Sep

2011

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Tuesday that her office will be investigating Apple Computers to determine if they are in compliance with her state’s data breach notification laws. Coakley spoke at a business luncheon at the Massachusetts’ Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC), where she was reaching out to business leaders to assure them that […]

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WikiLeaks suffers its own data loss incident

Aug

2011

Der Spiegel is reporting that WikiLeaks has had… wait for it… a data leakage accident. You might think, “So what? The data has already been leaked!” Unfortunately, that isn’t quite as clear as it seems. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to protect both their sources and potential informants by redacting their details from the data […]

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