A coalition of 17 advocacy groups filed complaints on Wednesday with the U.S.Federal Trade Commission against five prominent companies,including McDonald's,claiming that certain of their online marketing practices violate child privacy ...
Tags: privacy laws, McDonald, online privacy, children
Complaints over the past several weeks from Dropbox users whose email addresses have been targeted with spam have finally been answered by the company,which has admitted the possibility that an employee's company email was hacked,and a list ...
Tags: Dropbox, web service, LinkedIn, SafeNet
Dropbox said Tuesday one of its employee's accounts was compromised,leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. A stolen password was used to access the employee's account,which contained"a ...
Tags: Dropbox, spam attack, two-factor authentication, security problem
Dropbox's ongoing investigation into a possible security breach has not produced any evidence that its systems have been infiltrated,according to an update Friday to the company's user forum. "As of today,we've found no intrusions into ...
Tags: Dropbox, spam, The cloud storage company, security breach
Trouble Ticket --> At issue: A competitor is sending messages to the customer email addresses in the company's Salesforce.com database -- including some dummy addresses set up for testing purposes. Action plan: Use logs and email archives ...
Tags: Security, computer industry, Salesforce, DLP
Nvidia said it is investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums, another significant data breach following recent compromises at Yahoo and LinkedIn. A group calling itself Team Apollo posted on Pastebin around 800 ...
Tags: Nvidia, Cybercrime, Hacking, USA
[Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If theres something youd like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.] Among the many questions weve received ...
Tags: Apple, iTunes, iTunes Store, iPads, Apple account
Computerworld-Yahoo today confirmed that 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords were stolen Wednesday from one of its services,although it downplayed the threat. "We confirm that an older file from Yahoo!Contributor ...
Tags: Yahoo Confirms, unencrypted passwords, Yahoo Contributor Network