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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
Last year, Google proposed a $3.1 billion acquisition of Doubleclick , which prompted consideration of the acquisition by the Federal Trade Commission and a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committees subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. Both the FTC and the Senate were addressing not only anti-trust risks for...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 08:38:35 by HASH0x8b6ca50 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
One of the nice things about having started the SBN was that I have gotten to meet (mostly virtually) many security bloggers from around the world. Some of the most prolific contributors to the content of the SBN has been the members of the Belgian Security Bloggers Network . I received word today from one of the authors of one of the blogs,...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, legal status, blog owners, status, blog, bloggers rights, european parliament
 
 
 
 
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EU bloggers under assault by the European Parliament - they need your help

2008-06-12 09:38:11 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
One of the nice things about having started the SBN was that I have gotten to meet (mostly virtually) many security bloggers from around the world. Some of the most prolific contributors to the content of the SBN has been the members of the Belgian Security Bloggers Network . I received word today from one of the authors of one of the blogs,...
 
Tags: bloggers, weblog authors, authors, bloggers rights, freedom, legal status, blog owners, basic freedom, status
 
 
 
 
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IP Addresses Are Considered Personally Identifiable Information in the EU

2008-01-22 15:39:31 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
Theres a very interesting report out on the fact that IP addresses are now potentially considered personally identifiable information in the EU . Whoah! Im sure people can think of their own reasons this might be a big deal, but here is just a small smattering of stuff that I came up with Advertising: banner ads are almost always pulled from a...
 
Tags: information, addresses, identifiable information, people, content, googles business model, party, log analysis software, actual protection
 
 
 
 
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EU compliance laws heading for trouble

2008-02-13 00:00:00 by HASH0x8ba5858 in Network World on Security
 
The introduction of the forthcoming EU compliance directive, 'EuroSOX', could be chaotic, the Information Security Forum (ISF) has warned
 
Tags: information security forum, compliance directive, isf, chaotic, introduction, eurosox
 
 
 
 
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Romanian Script Kiddies and the Screensavers Botnet

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2008-04-08 03:48:40 by HASH0x8ae5de0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Shall we turn into zombies, and peek into the modest botnet courtesy of Romanian script kiddies, that are currently spamming postcard.scr greeting cards? Meet the script kiddies. This botnet is going nowhere mostly because knowing how to compile an IRC bot doesn't necessarily mean you posses a certain know-how, a know-how that experienced botnet...
 
Tags: botnet, botnet masters, script kiddies, romanian script kiddies, botnet courtesy, ny2fw15, alternative botnet, irc, irc bot
 
 
 
 
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Compromised Web Servers Serving Fake Flash Players

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2008-08-05 14:50:04 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
The tactic of abusing web servers whose vulnerable web applications allow a malicious attacker to locally host a malicious campaign is nothing new. In fact, malicious attackers have been building so much confidence in this risk-forwarding process of hosting their campaigns, that they would start actively spamming the links residing within...
 
Tags: file, html file, html, comtopnews, detopnews, windows media player, player, web, real player exploit
 
 
 
 
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European Commission Moves Forward on In-Flight Mobile Plan

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2008-04-07 12:21:42 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
The EC adopted two measures that will allow harmonized licensing, technology across EU states: The EC recommends that member states mutually recognize each other's licenses granted for in-flight mobile communications, which means that a firm or airline need apply to just one telecom/spectrum regulator to have permission to use the service...
 
Tags: mhz, mhz band, mhz frequencies, mhz bands, pan-european telecom rules, rules, in-flight service, service, ground stations
 
 
 
 
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Money Mule Recruiters use ASProx's Fast Fluxing Services

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2008-07-18 06:23:49 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Just consider this scheme for a second. A well known money mule recruitment site Cash Transfers is maintaining a fast-flux infrastructure on behalf of the Asprox botnet, that is also providing hosting services for several hundred domains used on the last wave of SQL injection attacks. Ironically, the money mule recruitment site is sharing IPs...
 
Tags: fast, fast flux networks, money, fast-flux, cashtransfers, fast flux provider, fast flux spam, transfer money, fast-flux infrastructure