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Ridiculously redacted interpretation of FISA snooping law released
US privacy organization EFF invites you to click on thumbnails of the summaries it managed to pry out of the government, but let's save your finger muscles the workout with this summaries summary: ------------------------------.
Ubuntu pipes search queries to Amazon, worrying privacy experts
Revolution OS - or adware? An update to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will pass searches through Amazon.com's search engine. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls that move a "major privacy problem."
$20 million is not enough! How much should Facebook pay for settling sponsored stories dispute?
A judge has rejected Facebook’s settlement offer of $10 million for lawyers and $10 million for privacy groups in a privacy lawsuit over the use of users’ names and faces in "Sponsored Stories" ads.
Google to demote websites with pirated content
Google has announced changes to its search algorithms, pushing down websites with several copyright take-down requests from the prime position in search results. Not everyone thinks this is a good idea.
Megaupload users who want their data have to pay (or sue), feds say
It's not looking good for those Megaupload users who want their files returned, unless they want to pay, or sue, to get it back.
CISPA debate rages on in the US, what's all the fuss about?
A new law being debated in the US is causing concern among privacy advocates. The law is designed to encourage information sharing to thwart cybercrime, yet even the White House is expressing concerns over the privacy implications of the bill.
Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program
A Canadian resident has been sentenced to death in Iran for offending the faith, after his computer program was used without his knowledge to upload pornography.
Can you be forced by law to decrypt your computer? US v. Fricosu court case rages on
Ramona Fricosu, accused of committing financial fraud, is currently in a court battle fighting to keep her encrypted data private. The prosecution say that if the government fail to demand data decryption, it will harm public interests. This article looks at the arguments for both sides and asks whether this would be possible under UK law.
Google and EFF propose improvements to HTTPS as GlobalSign releases CA breach report
GlobalSign released their report on security incident the certificate authority suffered earlier this year. They're clean, but that doesn't take the spotlight off of the need for a fix to the SSL certificate trust system that is in place.
EFF asks US Copyright Office to exempt jailbreaking from DMCA
The EFF is asking the US Copyright Office to expand exemptions for jailbreaking/rooting devices to include game consoles and other smart devices. We explore the security risks and benefits of their proposal.
FBI takes on Coreflood botnet - but is this a step too far?
Two weeks ago, the FBI kicked off an anti-cybercrime operation of a sort which had never been authorised before in America, taking remote remediation action against infected PCs.
Things went so well the Feds want to do more.
SSCC 55 - More SSL CA problems, RSA update and Chrome blocking more dangerous content
Tony Ross joins Chester Wisniewski this week to discuss the latest news on SSL Certificate Authorities ignoring signing guidelines. They also talk about the RSA breach, the Epsilon email leakage, Chrome adding malicious download filtering and more.
CanSecWest 2010 day 2 summary
The second day of CanSecWest was a beautiful day in Vancouver. The day was full of information-packed sessions and anticipation for the evening dinner party reception. "SEH overwrite and its exploitability - Shuichiro Suzuki" Shuichiro, who works for Forteenforty, demonstrated Read more…
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