Text messaging, picture mail, social network postings, blogging and many more activities contribute to creating personal digital history. Any activities on the internet or via a cell phone are considered one's digital history.
An unauthorized individual recently gained access to a Louisiana state licensing database that contained the personal information of tens of thousands of emergency medical technicians (EMTs).
How many victims? 56,000.
What type of personal information? Names and Social Security numbers.
The personal information of thousands of federal workers is at risk after a General Services Administration worker mistakenly sent the names and Social Security numbers of all of the agency's 12,000 workers to a private e-mail account.
The incident occurred Sept. 16, and GSA security officials learned about it Sept. 22 in a weekly e-mail security report, a spokeswoman said. Workers first learned of the data breach in an agency-wide e-mail sent Sept. 28.
Online hackers are taking advantage of the hype surrounding the upcoming Harry Potter movie by tricking people into divulging sensitive information in exchange for a free download of the film.
Security company PC Tools has noticed spam messages popping up in searches for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the penultimate movie in the hugely-popular franchise which will hit theaters Nov. 17.
Many regard LinkedIn as the "safe" social network, there are no games that jeopardise your privacy, you aren't posting incriminating photos of last weekend's Halloween party and you're not TKTKTKTK. But that's no reason to ignore the privacy and account settings that LinkedIn has in place.
You can find your list of settings by clicking on your name on the top right of the screen and choosing Settings. This list includes profile settings, email notifications, home page settings, personal information, privacy settings and more.
If you’ve never been targeted by an ad because of your online behavior, then you’re probably just not paying much attention. According to an informal survey by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), more than 80% of advertising campaigns in 2009 involved tracking of some sort. The advertising business, in short, loves online tracking just about as much as privacy advocates hate it.
For the second time in less than a year, University of Hawaii officials are dealing with another massive data breach that exposed students' and alumni's most sensitive personal information for almost a year.
This time around, university officials said a faculty member in December accidentally uploaded the names, Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates and educational data of more than 40,000 alumni to an unencrypted Web server from the university's West Oahu (UHWO) campus.
According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company's unofficial mission is to make "the world more open and connected." But there are limits to how open you should be on Facebook and while you might enjoy sharing photos and status updates, there are some pieces of information you would do well never to share.
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal whipped out its paddle and took several well placed whacks at a company few outside the Internet advertising community had ever heard of: Rapleaf.
It may be a little safer to log into Facebook at coffee shops again.
A student at the University of Iceland has programmed a potential antidote to Firesheep, a hacking tool that can access social networking accounts over unsecured WiFi networks. It's called FireShepherd and it aims to stop Firesheep, which was apparently created with good intentions but has the potential to wreak havoc.
