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Secretive cyber warfare firm NSO Group explores sale: Sources
Firstpost NSO Group Ltd, a company that helps governments spy on mobile phones and is so secretive that it regularly changes its name, is exploring a sale that could value it at close to $ 1 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter … |
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has weighed in on the contentious issue of the proposed sale of consumer data by bankrupt retailer RadioShack, recommending that a model be adopted based on a settlement the agency reached with a failed online toy retailer.
The state of Texas, which is leading action by several U.S. states, has opposed the sale of personally identifiable information by RadioShack, citing the online and in-store privacy policies of the bankrupt consumer electronics retailer.
Apple and some wireless carriers have opposed the sale of some of the customer data, which it said was collected from their respective customers and was governed by their privacy policies.
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Given the Point of Sale (PoS) attacks in the news lately I’m sure many of you are thinking about, or acting on, architecting better defenses. I recently worked with a team at Cisco to perform this same analysis on how to properly defend point-of-sale networks from attack. The attack scenarios we used were modeled after the recent breaches, blackpos and other PoS malware attacks.
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Today: Mountain View-based computer-security company Symantec buys LiveOffice for about $ 115 million, giving it cloud-archiving offering. Also: Steve Jobs doll will not be released after pressure from Apple (AAPL), Jobs lawyers, and a report …
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