Based on a world-wide study analyzing traffic from Social Media sites all businesses must be proactive on LinkedIn since 64% of all traffic comes from LinkedIn. The same study revealed that 66% of the corporate website traffic came from the iPhone (29%) and the iPad (37%), with the Google Droid
October 2013
Without Notice, a Self-Scribed Hacker’s Computer is Seized
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To avoid a likely disclosure of software a Judge issued an order to allow the seize of a hacker’s computer based on evidence that in the defendants’ “own words” that they ” are hackers” as reported by Computerworld. Recently US District Judge Lynn Winmill in Idaho issued an unusual order…
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Did the NSA Record 70+ Million French Phone Calls in a Month?
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There are allegations that the National Security Agency (NSA) “spied on French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent and gathered data on millions of phone calls” according to French foreign minister Laurent Fabius as reported by Computerworld. On October 21, 2013 French newspaper Le Monde reported that the NSA used DNR (Dial Number…
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Google Wins Cookie Battle
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A judge dismissed a suit in which there were allegations that Google “violated computer users’ rights by slipping electronic “cookies” into their Web browsers to facilitate placement of advertising” and thereby Google ‘tricked Apple and Microsoft browsers into accepting cookies’ according to a report by Bloomberg.
On October 9…
Not Just Google and Yahoo! Harvesting Webmail Contacts Lists Also the NSA
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As two class actions are pending for violation of the Federal Wire Tap Act against Google and Yahoo! for harvesting contact lists, now it appears that NSA has also been harvesting “hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them…
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Privacy Law Allows Minors to Scrub Indiscretions, But the Content is Not Deleted
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California enacted a law which allows minors to request websites to remove content from websites, but the law does not address data stored on the websites servers, only what it available for view on the Internet. Given the nature of the Internet, it is unlikely any law will ever be…
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13 Hackers Indicted in Cyber-Attacks
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A criminal indictment was filed against “part of the online group ANONYMOUS in a campaign dubbed “OPERATION PAYBACK” …to engage in a coordinated series of cyber-attacks” with one charge of Conspiracy to Intentionally Cause Damage to a Protected Computer (18 U.S.C. § 371).
The New York Times reported that the…
Free Webmail May be Coming to an End as Yahoo! is Sued for Scanning eMails
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In the wake of the Google class action for scanning gmail and violating the Federal Wiretap Act, a new class action suit was filed against Yahoo! for “…unlawful, wrongful, and intentional reading and/or learning of the contents.” The class action was filed by John Kevranian and Tammy Zapata on…
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Google to be Fined for Failing to Comply with EU Privacy Laws
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Google told the EU that the EU Privacy Laws did not apply to Google’s services and the EU now plans to impose a sanction for “breaches of the French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978, as amended (French Data Protection Act) which, in practice, prevents individuals from knowing how…
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