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Facebook plugs leak in user access tokens

...Facebook has plugged a hole that was inadvertently providing advertisers and other third parties access to user accounts via tokens that serve as "spare keys... Read more

11 May, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft to co-ordinate with third parties on bug fixes

The company will take more responsibility to work with other companies when bugs and security issues affect multiple software makers Read more

20 April, 2011 by Elinor Mills
Structure Preserving CCA Secure Encryption and Its Application to Oblivious <endeca_term>Third Parties</endeca_term>

Structure Preserving CCA Secure Encryption and Its Application to Oblivious Third Parties

In this paper, the authors present the first public key encryption scheme that is structure preserving, i.e., the... Read more

16 June, 2011

Government promises 'tough' rules for smart meter data

...have a choice about how their smart metering data is shared with third parties, the government has announced. Energy consumers will be able to choose... Read more

10 April, 2012

Germany accused of using Trojan to spy on citizens

...designed to spy on citizens, and has security flaws which could let third parties monitor people's computer usage or even plant false evidence. The... Read more

10 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Spanish antitrust authorities go after Microsoft

...s antitrust authorities have opened an investigation into Microsoft for allegedly blocking third parties from selling software licences. The National Competition Commission (CNC) said on... Read more

21 September, 2011

Google Apps resellers back Chromebooks

...form for £33 per user per year. Google Apps resellers, meanwhile, are third parties that typically offer services such as training and migration to ease... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Apple served iPhone 'supercookie' lawsuit

...claims they did not disclose that location data was being shared with third parties. Photo credit: James Martin/CNET News The suit, filed on Tuesday... Read more

12 May, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Facebook gets sneak peek at NHS site visits

...Tom Watson to question why the NHS is sending user data to third parties Read more

25 November, 2010 by Tom Espiner

AOL cuts 900 jobs in US and India

...in India with up to 700 jobs being lost or outsourced to third parties, while around 200 positions will be axed in the US Read more

11 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Android Gingerbread to get Open NFC support

...NFC 4.2 will aim to provide an API that will let third parties implement near-field communication technology for contactless payments across a range... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Ben Woods

Google hit with privacy suit over search referral links

...in the US that claims it is violating user privacy by sending third parties details of user search queries through referral links Read more

27 October, 2010 by Tom Krazit

Behind Facebook's privacy app debacle

With the news that members' personal data may have been sold to third parties, Facebook must now contend with the influence of powerful app developers... Read more

19 October, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy
Data Exchange and Information Sharing by Bloor Research

Data Exchange and Information Sharing by Bloor Research

Organizations today must share information with a wide variety of third parties outside the firewall: partners, agents, customers, resellers, and many other entities... Read more

1 February, 2011
Service Level Agreement Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Streaming Hosting Systems

Service Level Agreement Based Distributed Resource Allocation for Streaming Hosting Systems

The trend to outsourcing network services to third parties in a utility model has resulted in a new distributed application... Read more

1 January, 2011

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