By Shannon Perry Reflecting the increasing attention paid to information security by many Americans, Pew Research recently conducted a large study, “Net Threats”, to identify important trends among technology experts’ opinions and predictions regarding the future of digital security. The study...
By Shannon Perry Another data breach is making headlines, as eBay.com has revealed that the passwords for its accounts were recently compromised. The peculiar thing about this breach, however, is the way eBay communicated – and did not communicate – the breach to its users. If you visited eBay.c...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. ‘We the People’ 2.0 to include APIs – “White House Deputy Director of Online Platform Peter Welsch wrote on the White House blog that Petitions 1.0, the code “We the People” runs on is complete, opening the door f...
By AlexOlesker Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Trade Commission has charged several rent-to-own companies and a software maker over rental computers that illegally used spyware that took “pictures of children, individuals not fully clot...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload associates offered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fly to the United States without an extradition hearing in New Zealand in return for a fair trial garuntee and funds for lawyers and l...
The hacking group known as Anonymous has claimed a new series of hacks against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and consumer rights websites. The loosely organized collection of cyber rebels said it attacked the FTC’s consumer protection business center and the National Consumer Protection We...
via TMCnet In an effort to curb unfair practices associated with free web based services, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE), a federal regulatory body, recently petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a public process establishing a “trade regulation” for web-ba...
via Government Computer News Several members of Congress are calling for an investigation of a recently fixed, years-old security flaw in social networking site Facebook that could have exposed users’ account information. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) recently asked the Federal Trade Commission to ...