How Researchers Stole 20GB of E-Mail from Fortune 500 Companies
Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months. The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits…
Judge calls location-tracking Orwellian, while Congress moves to legalize it
A federal judge’s decision requiring the government to get a court warrant before obtaining mobile-phone location data is one of a string of conflicting opinions on the topic. It comes as lawmakers and the Supreme Court weigh in on the hot-button issue of locational privacy. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled on Tuesday that the…
Facial recognition software takes one glance at you and brings up your Facebook profile
Worried about privacy on the Internet? It may be even worse than you thought – with rapidly improving face recognition technology, your automatically tagged Facebook pictures could help a stranger, or the authorities, quickly identify you on the street. A simple system that compares Facebook pictures and webcam snapshots can make a positive match after…