An upstate NY State woman sued the DEA for creating a fake Facebook profile of her, using pictures of her young son and niece as well as suggestive pictures of her to try and lure drug dealers (see link and picture below). Authorities had taken her phone after she was arrested for her role in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written before about Verizon (and AT&T) supercookies (see here and here, among others). Briefly, supercookies are tracking devices that Verizon adds to your web traffic from your phone after the traffic leaves your phone but before it reaches the intended web site. Verizon uses this traffic to figure out what sites you visit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine has an interesting article on home and small office backups (see article). Many “private cloud” backups allow you to backup your files to a device on your local network and access your backups anywhere you have access to the Internet. Sometimes, that was not even intended, but due to misconfiguration or bad default […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ad injectors are usually implemented as browser add-ins that place their own ads on web pages that you visit. These adds could replace existing ads or insert new, additional ads. The can also inject malware into your computer. Google worked with a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and found 200 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The ACLU put together an interesting web page (see here). By surfing the web, they have put together a map with information – as best they have at the moment – of what states are using Stingrays to track citizens and what states are not. I say citizens and not crooks because a Stingray will collect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Max Schrems, whom I have written about before (see post) is continuing his fight against Facebook. He first took his battle to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) since Facebook Europe is based in Ireland, but the DPC declined to take the case, because, it said, it had no legal requirement to do so (meaning […]
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