LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach. Another day, another shed-load of password hashes in the hands of crooks….
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SAN FRANCISCO — Lost smartphones are likely to be mined for valuable information by strangers who find them, according to the results of a sting operation conducted by computer security firm Symantec. Symantec intentionally “lost” 50 …
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Don’t expect people to be morally upright when it comes to lost phones. A study from Computer security firm Symantec Corp. (consider the source) reveals that people don’t always shine with human kindness when it comes to misplaced personal electronics.
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Peter Jamison / The Snitch:
Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police ‘Assisted’ Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man’s Home — The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype …