Social networking self-regulation isn't working says EU

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• Social networking self-regulation isn't working says EU
• UK police arrest teen from Lulz Security for DDOS attack
• Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours
• The Grill: Teri Takai
• LulzSec launches anti-government crusade, takes down U.K. police site
• Researchers: AWS users are leaving security holes
• Facebook Facial Recognition: Why It's a Threat to Privacy

Social networking self-regulation isn't working says EU Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT A test conducted by the European Commission on 14 social networking sites found that only two of them make minors' profiles private by default.

UK police arrest teen from Lulz Security for DDOS attack Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:03 AM PDT U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with the rogue hacking group Lulz Security.

Dropbox left document storage accounts open for four hours Posted: 21 Jun 2011 03:17 AM PDT Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off password authentication for its 25 million users for four hours on Monday -- although "much less than 1 percent" of those accounts were accessed during the period, the company said. It is still investigating whether any of those accounts were improperly accessed.

The Grill: Teri Takai Posted: 19 Jun 2011 11:05 PM PDT The U.S. Department of Defense had some big news on the IT front last fall. First, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Teri Takai as the department's CIO. Then he announced that Cyber Command, an organization he conceived of in 2009 to protect approximately 15,000 military computer networks, was fully operational. Takai isn't new to overseeing such monumental projects. She served as California's CIO from 2007 to 2010, and as Michigan's CIO from 2003 to 2007. Prior to that, Takai worked at Ford for 30 years. She recently talked about her laser focus on security.

LulzSec launches anti-government crusade, takes down U.K. police site Posted: 19 Jun 2011 11:05 PM PDT A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.

Researchers: AWS users are leaving security holes Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:59 PM PDT Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetting published security tips.

Facebook Facial Recognition: Why It's a Threat to Privacy Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:52 AM PDT By the end of this year, the world's population is expected to hit 7 billion. That's a huge number, but it pales in comparison to the 60 billion to 100 billion photos Facebook has reportedly stored on its servers.

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