Posts Tagged ‘privacy concerns’

The Facebook Cookies Saga: U.S. Law Makers Press for FTC Investigation

Sep

2011

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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DHS and NIST proposal suggests American ISPs should assist in stopping botnets

Sep

2011

When I do public speaking, I often rant about how distracted we are by high profile attacks like Stuxnet even though few of us are responsible for protecting nuclear centrifuges. The vast majority of attacks are using our own computing resources to compromise our infrastructure. Our identities are being stolen, and we’re spamming and DDoS’ing […]

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The pastebin trend (cont.)

Aug

2011

In June during some of the LulzSec pastes, I published a brief blog post on our sister blog (Scrapbook). In that post, I discussed a spike in Pastebin web transactions due to the LulzSec information drops and other controversial news within the information security community. To get a more precise view of when the spikes […]

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