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10 hacks that made headlines
In our first Rogues Gallery, we looked at ten infamous social engineers -- con men who exploited human weaknesses rather than technical...
UNC Charlotte: 350,000 SSNs exposed in decade-long data breach
Two issues exposed financial data and Social Security numbers for 350,000 people, although it is thought the information has not been abused, the...
Is Your Cloud Provider Exposing Remnants of Your Data?
Security researchers report that incorrectly configured hypervisors can lead to a separation of data issue in multi-tenant environments that can...
Fortinet has highest catch rate in IPS testing
We tested the intrusion prevention capabilities of each of the next-generation firewalls to determine how well they work and how the IPS integrates...
Hackers blackmail Belgian bank with threats to publish customer data
Hackers claimed to have breached the systems of the Belgian credit provider Elantis and threatened to publish confidential customer information if...
Dutch court temporarily frees 17-year-old KPN hacking suspect
A Dutch 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to telecommunications operator KPN is set to be...
Most IT and security professionals see Anonymous as serious threat to their companies
The majority of IT and security professionals believe that Anonymous and hacktivists are among the groups that are most likely to attack their...
Berners-Lee: Demand your data from Internet companies
Tim Berners-Lee has said that the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but...
Workers did not exceed authorization when data stolen, says appeals court
In a somewhat startling decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week ruled that several employees at an executive recruitment...
Paying with smartphones to outpace credit cards by 2020, experts say
More than two-thirds of technology insiders believe that paying with smartphones will overtake cash and credit card payments by 2020, according to a...
Sophos takes down partner portal after signs of hacking
Security firm Sophos has taken its partner portal offline and will reset every user's password after it found signs of a potential security breach on...
Reborn LulzSec claims hack of dating site for military personnel
A group of hackers claiming to be the reborn Lulz Security (LulzSec) took credit for an alleged compromise of MilitarySingles.com, a dating website...
Dutch police arrest 17-year-old suspected of breaching hundreds of KPN servers
The Dutch High Tech Crime Team has arrested a 17-year-old suspected of compromising customer account data on hundreds of servers belonging to...
Univ. of Tampa says student info was exposed for 8 months
An in-class project on advanced search techniques led to the discovery of a major data breach at the University of Tampa in Florida last week.
Firefox to turn on default encryption for all Google searches
Mozilla is currently testing default encrypted Google searches for all Firefox users, with the intent to make all Google searches encrypted in the...
Privacy regulators: US and EU will take different approaches
The development of online privacy protections is at a critical moment as policy makers in both the U.S. and European Union push for changes to their...
News International security chief arrested in phone hacking case
Scotland Yard arrested six people, including Mark Hanna, the media company's director of group security since 2009
Apple patches record number of Safari 5 bugs with monster update
Apple yesterday updated Safari to version 5.1.4, patching 83 vulnerabilities and boosting JavaScript performance on OS X Lion.
Plugging a SaaS Access Hole
Our manager's company has a lot of sensitive data on Salesforce.com servers, and until now, we could access it from any device.
SXSW panel heats up over big data privacy concerns
A Sunday afternoon panel designed to address head-on privacy concerns stemming from so-called "big data" collection sparked passions even...
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