This has been reported by Alexandre Dulaunoy on Twitter: Google Talk keeps track of your SMS!

Goodiff, a service for automated tracking of semantic changes in web service policies, reported the following change: “When you send and receive SMS messages to or from Google Talk, we collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction.”

This can lead to potential, involuntary data leak… SMS are too often considered as a secure way to transmit information (like temporary access codes).

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Nymity, global privacy and data protection research services firm specializing in compliance and operational risk management, published interesting maps which give a decent overview of the legislative landscapes regarding the data breaches for United States, Canada, and the EU.
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Source: nymity.com.

Microsoft COFEE (“Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) has been leaked and is available for download via BitTorrent.

Source: slashdot.org, crunchgear.com.

Potentially, any device handling data can become the target of a malicious application. The effort to access those data is directly related to their “value” (SSN, CCN, e-mail addresses, etc). The popular iPhone produced by Apple has not escaped this problem.

According to The Register, an iPhone owner and gamer filled a complaint against a major game development company for leaking users’ cell numbers without their permission. It seems that it’s not the first time that this company was accused to handle users data in the wrong way.

Source: The Register.

Symantec organized a study targeting Indian enterprises. The study revealed classical issues:

• Data classification is difficult to achieve,
• Low awareness program about data loss risks,
• Low adoption of DLP technologies

Source: cadcamnews.in.