Don’t worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally.
The U.K. government is haemorrhaging data — private and confidential citizen data — from medical records to social security details, and even criminal records, according to figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests.
If your organization uses a multi-tenant managed hosting service or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud for some or all of your dataAAand you aren't following best practices by encrypting that dataAyou may be inadvertently exposing it.
Last year, information security consultancy Context Information Security was tasked by a number of its clients, mostly banks and other high-end clients with serious security concerns, to determine whether the cloud was safe enough for their computing needs.
As you probably know, Windows 8 connects with all sorts of networks, social and otherwise. The Metro Mail app has built-in hooks for Hotmail, Gmail, and Exchange; Metro Photos links to Facebook and Flickr; the Metro People app (which stores contacts) can pull data from Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. All you have to do is log on to Windows 8 with a Microsoft account, then go out and connect the online dots.
Anonymous, LulzSec and other hacktivists aren't as anonymous as they might think. They're being watched. On this week's Patch Monday podcast, a watcher tells us what he sees.
Israeli information security researcher Tal Be'ery is the web security research team leader at Imperva's Application Defense Center (ADC), where he leads efforts to capture and analyse hacking data.
Skype said Tuesday it is investigating a new tool that collects a person's last known IP address, a potential privacy-compromising issue.
Instructions posted on Pastebin on Thursday showed how a person's IP address could be shown without adding the targeted user as a contact by looking at the person's general information and log files.
A Google engineer who wrote a computer program capable of collecting personal data from people's home wireless networks, told at least two other Google employees about it, although the company asserted it did not know, a US government report shows.
The fact was revealed in a Federal Communications Commission's investigation, but had been redacted out by the FCC when it released its report two weeks ago. Google released the report itself over the weekend, with only names and telephone numbers blacked out.
LinkedIn feels like a more pristine social network than most. It dubs itself “the world’s largest professional network on the Internet” with 150 million members as of February — and 27 million of those being “decision makers”. We post family photos and cat videos on Facebook. We await a call from a recruiter and share industry articles on LinkedIn.
More than 15,000 Australian credit cards worth an estimated $3.75 million in total were salvaged from underground hacker forums in a global police sting.
The cards were held across 36 carding websites that used automated vending carts to sell the accounts in large batches.
Two members of Congress have introduced a bill that would ban the practice of requiring job applicants, employees or students to provide their social networking information.
The Social Networking Online Protection Act, authored by Congressman Eliot Engel of New York and sponsored by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, is in response to a growing number of reports of employers demanding their employees’ Facebook passwords as a condition of employment.
A study by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found that more than one in 10 second hand hard drives sold or given away in Britain contains recoverable personal information of the original owner.
Upon releasing the the results of the study this week, the data protection regulatory agency urged consumers to take better care of their data. It also released a list of ways individuals can securely delete personal information from old devices.
