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Submission + - Brazilian Governmet will monitor Whatsapp Messages to counter recent riots 3

Submitted by prxp
prxp writes: Recent riots in Brazil have taken the Brazilian Government completely by surprise, since most of its intelligence personnel have been assingned to work on the security of Fifa's Confederations Cup, according to "O Estado de São Paulo" (Google translation), one of Brazil's major newspapers. This is particularly ironic, since protesting against the way Fifa has managed Confederations Cup in Brazil accompanied with overspending by the brazilian Government is in the heart of these riots. Because of that, ABIN (the brazilian equivalent to CIA) "has assembled a last minute operation to monitor the Internet" where intelligence officials have been tasked to monitor protesters' every move "though Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp" in order to "antecipate intineraries and size of riots" among other intel. The legality of such action is unknown, since Brazilian laws prohibit this kind of wiretapping.
Businesses

Is Facebook Working On a Smartphone? 160

Posted by samzenpus from the phone-a-friend dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times reports that Facebook has resumed its stealthy efforts to create a smartphone, apparently to assert its position in an Internet increasingly accessed via mobile devices, and to counter products and moves made by major competitors Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. The Times reports that Mark Zuckerberg has gotten personally involved in the project, which has recently landed several iPhone/iPad engineers from Apple. Wired ran a similar story a month ago, reporting that Facebook has ramped up its "Buffy" code-named collaboration with HTC on a phone which will probably be Android-based, support HTML5 and include a large touchscreen and high-quality camera (for Instagram). Facebook won't confirm or deny these reports."
Security

Submission + - McAfee's website full of security holes (networkworld.com) 1

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Julie188
Julie188 writes: "The McAfee.com website is full of security mistakes that could lead to cross-site scripting and other attacks, researchers said in a post on the Full Disclosure site on Monday. The holes with the site were found by the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, and reported to McAfee on Feb. 10, YGN says, before they were publicly disclosed to the security/hacking mailing list. Embarrassing? Yes, especially given that the company aggressively markets its own McAfee Secure service that is supposed to assure consumers that McAfee has scanned a website and found it to be safe."

Comment Slides are sanitized (Score 3, Informative) 134

by prxp (#32803178) Attached to: ATM Vendors Threaten, Stop Research Presentation
According to TFA:

Even though this is not the first time that ATM vendors prevented a security researcher to publicly disclose findings about flaws in their devices at a conference, this instance is really surprising, since Chiesa held this same presentation at a couple of security conferences already, and the slides he employed are also available online.

The thing is these slides are sanitized, the details of the ATM attack were removed.

Does anybody know where to find a non-sanitized version?
Wireless (Apple)

iPhone Free WiFi Is Back 77

Posted by samzenpus from the everyone-loves-free-stuff dept.
scorp1us writes "iPhone users used to be able to get free Wifi from AT&T hot spots, including Starbucks locations. The service was pulled because of the browser-agent hack. Now the service is being re-launched, this time with a link sent via SMS to the iPhone for the hotspot, valid for 24 hours."

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