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You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.

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Sumit Suman recently visited a site, did not sign up for anything, did not connect via social media, but got a personal email from the site the next day.I’ve learned that there is a “website intelligence” network that tracks form submissions across their customer network. So, if a visitors fills out a form on Site A with their name and email, Site B knows their name and email too as soon as they land on the site.It all started 2 weeks ago when I got a promotional email (anonymized to avoid promotion) offering toI get B2B marketing emails all the time but what caught my eye was the inclusion of a report snapshot for 42Floors.com showing names,

Targeted Attack: London 2012 Olympics

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We've come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly).The PDF exploits CVE-2010-2883, which affects older versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A typical PDF exploit will launch a clean decoy as part of its attack, and in this case, the decoy is a copy of the London 2012 Olympic schedule circa October 2010. The original source PDF can still be found online at: london2012.com.Click image to view a larger version.The exploit attempts to make a network connection with a site registered to "

10 Incredibly Simple Things You Should Be Doing To Protect Your Privacy ...

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Over the weekend, I wound up at Washington, D.C.âs Trapeze School with a group of friends. Before one of them headed up a ladder to attempt a somersault landing from the trapeze bar, she handed me her phone and asked me to take photos. âWhatâs the password?â I asked. âI donât use one,â she replied. My jaw dropped as it often does when someone I know tells me theyâre choosing not to take one of the very simplest steps for privacy protection, allowing anyone to snoop through their phone with the greatest of ease, to see whichever messages, photos, and sensitive apps they

Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck

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A firm that disguised Android malware as Angry Birds games has been fined £50,000 ($78,300) by UK premium-rate service regulator PhonepayPlus.

A1 Agregator posted mobile apps posing as smash-hit games, including Cut the Rope, on Android marketplaces and other outlets. Rather than offer free entertainment, the software silently sent out a text in order to receive a string of premium-rate messages, costing victims £5 per SMS. Users would have to uninstall the counterfeit apps from their phone to prevent further messages and charges.

The malicious code also covered up evidence of the message swapping which might