Friday Squid Blogging: Food Supplier Passes Squid Off as Octopus
According to a lawsuit (main article behind paywall), “a Miami-based food vendor and its supplier have been misrepresenting their squid as octopus in an effort to boost profits.”
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Ben A. • June 30, 2017 4:26 PM
This company deliberately deleted its customer email mailing list. Maybe you should too
Bruce has previously said that data is a toxic asset. New European laws make the price of a data breach eye watering: >=€20 million or 4% of annual turnover.
https://www.grahamcluley.com/company-deliberately-deleted-customer-email-mailing-list-maybe/
This Retail Website Considers Password Security Optional
http://threatpost.com/this-retail-website-considers-password-security-optional/126630/
Push Away Your Privacy: Precise User Tracking Based on TLS Client Certificate Authentication
http://tma.ifip.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tma2017_paper2.pdf
Kaspersky Lab US staff grilled by Feds in nighttime swoop
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/28/kaspersky_lab_us_staff_questioned_by_fbi/
Flawed reporting about WhatsApp
“The most serious inaccuracy was a claim that WhatsApp had a “backdoor”, an intentional, secret way for third parties to read supposedly private messages. This claim was withdrawn within eight hours of initial publication online, but withdrawn incompletely.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/jun/28/flawed-reporting-about-whatsapp
Telegram founder agrees to register app with Russian censors
“Pavel Durov to comply after threats to block messaging service but will not retain data”
https://www.ft.com/content/8bfc8e20-5c15-11e7-9bc8-8055f264aa8b
People who post 50-plus times per day are likely sharing spam or false news, Facebook says.
https://www.recode.net/2017/6/30/15896544/facebook-fake-news-feed-algorithm-update-spam
How to Obfuscate – Issue 49: The Absurd
http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/how-to-obfuscate