A class action lawsuit brought against Google for mass SMS spamming is drawing to a close, with a final hearing last week upholding the $6 million compensation fund agreed a year ago.
Here you are! Episode #112 of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast.
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Researchers have developed a new study that will analyze volunteers' social media profiles, mobile phone content, and risk factors in an attempt to determine if text mining can help to flag self-harm.
The EFF has filed an appeal seeking to free the hacker and self-described internet troll, who exploited a hole in AT&T's publicly facing website to siphon the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners.
The ACLU joined other legal activist groups to file a brief in what they call a potentially pivotal case in determining whether the government needs a warrant to track our mobile phones.
The updated rule is confusing developers who can't tell when a mobile gadget passes from parent to offspring. Let's hope they get it all ironed out soon. Increased control for parents sounds like a good way to head off both advertising targeted at children and the willy-nilly dispersal of geolocation data.
Following on from the recent analysis of the Glazunov exploit kit, Fraser Howard takes a detailed look at two other closely related kits. He finds several similarities which suggest that the same criminal group may well be behind all three.
A Tennessee man is accused of being the guy behind the extortion attempt, which boiled down to "Give me 1 meeeeellion dollars for Romney's tax returns - and oh, yea, please pay in Bitcoins."