Lawsuit Filed Over Flash Memory Cookie Resurrection (July 27 & 28, 2010)

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A lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 alleges that a number of popular websites violated federal law by using Adobe Flash storage to recreate cookies that users had deleted.......

New Zealand Pizza Chain Suffers Data Breach (July 25 & 28, 2010)

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The personal information of as many as 230,000 New Zealanders, including a handful of celebrities, has been compromised following the theft of information from the database of a popular pizza chain.......

Researcher Gathers Publicly Accessible Facebook Data (July 28 & 29, 2010)

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The man who wrote a web crawler that collected data of more than 100 million Facebook users says he did it as part of his work on a security tool.......

Safari Patches AutoFill Flaw (and 14 Others) One Day Before Scheduled Talk (July 28 & 29, 2010)

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Apple issued updates for Safari 4 and 5 just one day before a scheduled presentation on one of the flaws at the Black Hat conference.......

Russian Cyber Criminal Group Ran Counterfeit Check Operation (July 28, 2010)

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A presentation at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas described the activity of a group of Russian cyber criminals involved in a counterfeit check scheme.......

Alleged Botnet Author Arrested in Slovenia (July 28, 2010)

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Slovenian police have arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the Mariposa botnet.......

Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report (July 28 & 29, 2010)

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According to Verizon's Data Breach Investigation Report from the Verizon Business RISK Team, 70 percent of breaches were committed by outsiders.......

UK ICO Says Google Did Not Collect "Meaningful Personal Details" (July 29, 2010)

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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has examined some of the data Google collected while gathering information from unsecured Wi-Fi networks for its Street View feature and concluded that Google did not collect "meaningful personal details.......

Second Pennsylvania High School Student Files Suit Over Webcam (July 27, 2010)

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A second Lower Merion (Pennsylvania) High School student has filed a lawsuit against the school district, its board of directors, the superintendent and two school employees alleging a civil rights violation for the misuse of a laptop computer theft tracking program.......

White House Seeks to Add Internet Activity to List of Information That Can be Demanded With National Security Letters (July 29, 2010)

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The White House is seeking to add language to a list of items the FBI can demand without a judge's approval.......