Iranian web crackdown drives surge in privacy technology
As demonstrations against the clerical regime continue, the numbers of Iranians using privacy technologies is increasing. Source: Iranian web crackdown […]
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Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
Nearly every web browser now comes with a password manager tool, a lightweight version of the same service offered by […]
Do Your Records Put Your Business at Risk?
When it comes to record management and customer notifications, the legal requirements for businesses are vastly different from state-to-state. Source: […]
Do you really know what your IT services vendor is providing to secure your systems?
A small health care provider such as a physician office or clinic often will contract with an IT services vendor […]
No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers
In this second installment of the No Boundaries series, we show how a long-known vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers […]
Security Education in Uncertain Times: 2017 in Review
It doesn’t work to drop into a roomful of people you’ve never met before and have no connection to, spend […]
Researchers can re-identify government’s data
The confidential patient data of 2.9 million Australians can be re-identified, without decryption, a report from University of Melbourne researchers […]
A Cute Toy Just Brought a Hacker Into Your Home
Amid the holiday shopping season, cybersecurity researchers warn that new, interactive toys are vulnerable to many hacking threats. Source: A […]
Employer liable for disgruntled employee’s deliberate data breach
WM Morrisons Supermarket plc have been held liable to 5,518 of their employees for a deliberate data breach by a […]
Aadhaar data leak: More than 200 Indian government websites expose citizens’ key personal details
The Aadhaar-issuing body, called the Unique Identification Authority of India, did not specify how or when the breach took place. […]
Symantec says biometrics isn’t the answer for protecting against financial fraud
With Australians to soon transfer money in near real-time, banks will need to up their fraud detection capabilities, but Symantec’s […]
Manipulated Data: The Worst Hack of All?
In the wake of many high profile data breaches, we may have been oblivious to the potentially greater danger posed […]