Yahoo in trouble more email addresses 'recycled'
Back in June we reported that Yahoo was set to recycle and release inactive email addresses for public use. Many groups at the time predicted potential privacy issues, so it might not come as a surprise that the new owners of these addresses now receive emails intended for previous users. Professional Information Security Tom Jenkins, who took over an old account, said he now knows the name of the former owner, address, phone number and where their child attends school. Experts privacy urging Yahoo to take action before the personal information falls into the wrong hands.
Kaspersky Lab discovered the spying campaign
Kaspersky Lab discovered a group of hackers for hire called Icefog that have targeted military contractors and government institutions . Victims of the group were mainly in Japan and South Korea, but Kaspersky warned that it seems likely that they will soon hit a US company. The group is classified as an advanced persistent threat (APT a) but with a difference. Hackers go for high-profile victims and rely on a long-term plan that allows them to fly thousands of terabytes of data. Kaspersky has identified hundreds of individual victims, and while some Windows users dozens were affected more than 350 were using Mac OS X. Alarmingly, the "hit and run" refers to the technique many victims do not even know they were affected.
[law California will under 18 to make websites delete personal messages
A new California law will under 18 the authority to site Web remove their personal information. It will cover the content generated by the individual adolescent, such as photos, and should enter into force in 2015. However, anything created and published by others will not be included, and companies will not have to remove information from their servers. Some groups have argued that the law could confuse Internet companies and get them to deny access of minors to their sites in order to avoid a legal scandal. Nevertheless, the Common Sense Media charity aimed at protecting children using the web, welcomed this decision as a positive step.
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