While some bars have already expressed reluctance in accepting customers with Google Glasses, strip joints joined the bandwagon as the technology could be too disruptive and intrusive. Having the potential of being used to constantly record and broadcast videos; it raises serious privacy concerns for casinos, strip clubs, theaters and other places. Although Google Glasses have not yet been released, some ha...

A car parking contractor in the UK has inadvertently exposed driver and car information following a security incident with its website. According to The Register, the UK Parking Control (UKPC) has made available to the public pictures of cars parked in the lots they manage, including clearly visible plate numbers, identification cards and – in some circumstances – the car’s location. Whenever a car is parke...

Google released new figures detailing the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) requests coming from the FBI and other agencies that request user information when conducting national security investigations. In  2009, 2011, and 2012 there were between 1,000 and 1,999 NSL’s on user accounts, while in 2011 there were between 2,000 and 2,999 requests. Although Google did not post absolute numbers as they ...

US law enables police to use forensic tools that download call logs, text messages, geo-location, and proprietary technology data from suspect’s smartphones without a warrant, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU revealed a court document that outlines the type and amount of information collected by advanced forensic tools when a suspect’s device is under investigation. From visi...

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order aimed at strengthening cyber security by creating a series of best practices and encouraging institutions that handle critical infrastructure systems to implement a security framework by working together with key government institutions. The framework will serve as a means of sharing intelligence between the government and private sector institutions to de...

Several tech-savvy people got a good laugh out of Facebook's new Graph Search feature after revealing answers such as ‘Married people who like Prostitutes’ or ‘Mothers of Jews who like Bacon.’ “A phishing pool”, “a social engineering nightmare” or “a public embarrassment” – these are just a few of the warnings the media and security specialists have sent in the last days.   Facebook users are vulnerable to ...

With the avalanche of security breaches this year, spear phishing attacks are to be expected in coming months. Hackers eviscerated data servers of highly visible companies and state institutions, (most recently NASA and the FBI) and had user private data put out on display - some on underground forums, but mostly on the Internet for everyone to see and use.  This provides criminals a lot of information- lik...

Several of the most popular Android apps are skimming users’ phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other data and uploading it to third party servers that belong to companies specialized in advertising to Android users, according to a Bitdefender analysis. Paradise Island, Love Calculator, Samsung TV Media Player are among the popular apps that have adopted this practice, taking sensitive user data and upload...

 California Attorney General Kamala Harris is notifying app developers and companies to post privacy notices for users or risk fines of up to $2,500 every time their app is downloaded. Announcing that notification letters will be sent to 100 app developers and companies telling them of the new California privacy law, Harris said online customer privacy should not be taken lightly. "Protecting the privacy of...

Twitter has blocked access to a neo-Nazi account in Germany at the request of the government in the first test of a new censorship policy, according to the BBC. The micro-blogging platform left the tweets of the account visible to the rest of the world. The amendments give Twitter “the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country -- while keeping it available in the rest of the wo...