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Firesheep Sidejacking Privacy Alert

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:12:53 +0000

Firesheep Can Hack Your Social Media Accounts What’s it take to hack your Facebook account, Twitter, or blog? Not much. Eric Butler has developed a tool that shows you exactly how vulnerable you are to having your accounts hacked by anyone using Firefox as a web browser and Butler’s new Firesheep plugin. Known as “sidejacking” [...]

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Website Attorney: Beware of the website evercookie

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:55:29 +0000

It’s an affiliate marketer’s dream and a website user’s privacy nightmare. HTML5, the next gen in HTML, apparently lets coders create the “evercookie.” This cookie places data in at least 10 places on your computer and doesn’t get deleted simply by using the “delete cookies” function of your Web browser. The potential for abuse of [...]

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Gmail Privacy: Are You Giving Away Your Business Plans to Google?

Internet Lawyer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:46:44 +0000

When you go to an Internet marketing event, you don’t run around the room telling all your potential competitors your new business ideas and trade secrets. And if you find spyware on a computer filled with your business documents, you don’t leave it there to harvest your confidential information. Why not? Because you want to [...]

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Cash for Clunkers: Government Computer Spy Program

Internet Lawyer — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:59:44 +0000

When you take advantage of the cash for clunkers car program (the Car Allowance Rebate System), the U.S. federal government gets to play computer spy without your permission. Here’s how it works. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) mandates car dealers register in order to participate in the program. However, a condition of registration [...]

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Behavioral Targeting: FTC to Crack Down on Internet Ads that Invade Privacy

Internet Lawyer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:44:37 +0000

There’s a reason for the Google Privacy Policy Change for its Interest Based Advertising. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made protecting consumer privacy from behavioral targeted advertising a high priority. The FTC is tired of spyware and other measures used to track consumers online in order to deliver advertising based on information provided [...]

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Scorned Girlfriend Used Internet to Try to Break Up Ex-Boyfriend’s Marriage

Internet Lawyer — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:41:16 +0000

A Connecticut woman has been arrested because of the Internet tactics she used to try to break up the marriage of a guy she dated back in 1999. The woman posted fake profiles of the man’s wife on adult website, including a picture and phone numbers. Fortunately, the ex-boyfriend was tech savvy and was able [...]

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Congress Debates Proposed Anti-Spyware Bill

Internet Lawyer — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:27:21 +0000

The Spy Act (Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass) is being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. How will this affect your business? Hopefully not at all. But here’s the danger. If some form of this bill becomes law, Congress has a propensity to screw things up when it comes to the Internet because, [...]

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