Interesting story for our British readers, seems like back in Old Blighty people are a bit lax when it comes to keeping their security software up to date.
Not only that, from the other aspects of the survey it seems UK is generally lacking in cybersecurity awareness and education with people not deleting dodgy files and [...]
We’ve been following the whole TJX saga for quite some time now since way back in September 2007 when the hack became public as the Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History and in August 2008 when the TJX Credit Card Hackers Got Busted.
The legal system has ticked along and now they have to [...]
I find it a little surprising in this day and age that such a low percentage of IT managers believe data loss is a low impact issue.
Don’t they read the news? Don’t they understand how losing customer trust can really effect your bottom-line?
I would have thought 30% of respondents thinking data loss was high impact [...]
After our recent story about the trading of BlackBerries for data theft the issue has emerged again this time more towards the secure disposal of data stored on PC hard disks.
If a company or organisation has a decent data/information security policy in place (Like ISO27001 for example) they should have a secure destruction/disposal policy as [...]
To continue with some software targeted towards security and self-protection after posting about Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) we continue with one more – Secunia Personal Software Inspector. We did write about this software way back when Secunia first came out with their Secunia Software Inspector.
There’s now 3 versions [...]
This is an interesting story, I’ll be watching how it develops – it’s not often you see a bounty for online crimes and especially one as enticing as 1 million dollars!
That’s a hell of a sum for nailing down some dodgy hackers who are running an extortion scam after a data leak.
I really wonder where [...]
It seems that people are truly shocked when their identities get exposed, and the vast majority use the same single password for ALL of their online accounts. That’s just crazy!
A ‘kind-hearted’ hacker recently exposed a bunch of online accounts (with passwords) to gain himself more status in a hacker forum (l33t sk1llz dudebro!).
WHEN Australian web [...]
Another classic data leakage….and once again it happend on Ebay! This time it’s a British agency known as MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) demonstrating a distinct lack of intelligence.
How on earth does something like even happen? Even smaller agencies and companies I’ve worked with have rigorous data destruction policies when old equipment is recycled or sold [...]
A while back we reported how US customs owns your data, now it’s getting even worse. 10 days ago the US appeals court gave them rights to COPY all your data without notice even if there are no suspicions.
Anyone want to talk about dilution of intellectual property? Privacy? Or just basic human rights..
In a letter [...]
Ferret works on the concept of “data seepage”: bits of benign data that people willingly broadcast to the world (as opposed to “leakage”, which is data people want to hide from the world).
Examples of data seepage are what happens when you power-on your computer. It will broadcast to the world the list of WiFi access-points [...]
