Hi there.today I have another news for you regarding the cyber law area.
If you promise customers that their personal information is secure, you had better deliver on that promise. That is the message of last week’s settlement between the FTC and Twitter — the FTC’s first case against a social networking service. It’s a message the FTC has sent to industry before.
The matter arose when hackers twice secured administrative control of Twitter in early 2009. (How? In one case, an automated password-guessing tool smoked out the administrative password – ”a weak, lowercase, letter-only, common dictionary word,” according to the complaint.) The breach led to a series of phony tweets from a number of user accounts — including one from then President-elect Obama. Hackers also reviewed non-public user information.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11002759
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