John Thompson, CEO of the security software company, Symantec Corp., is denouncing nondisclosed usage of Internet cookies: During a visit to the EU in Brussels, John Thompson, chief executive of the security software company, said that cookies “are just as much an invasion of privacy as someone peering in my bedroom window”.”I don’t have an [...]
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Symantec CEO Asserts that Cookies Invade Internet Users’ Privacy
September 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Computer Privacy and Security, Privacy and New Technology
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IRS Warns of New Phishing Scam
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Computer Privacy and Security
Get the news directly from the IRS website on this latest phishing scam….”The e-mail purporting to be from IRS Criminal Investigation falsely states that the person is under a criminal probe for submitting a false tax return to the California Franchise Tax Board. The e-mail seeks to entice people to click on a link or [...]
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AOL Phisher Faces Prison
August 26th, 2007 · No Comments · Computer Privacy and Security
Computerworld reports that an AOL phisher, Michael Dolan, has pleaded guilty to federal charges and will be sentenced to prison. According to the report…”from 2002 through 2006, Dolan and others used software to harvest AOL account names from the service’s chat rooms, then sent messages posing as electronic greeting cards that were actually transporting Trojan [...]
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