In another entry for the ‘what were they thinking’ file, a second former Equifax executive has been charged with insider trading in advance of the company’s massive data breach announcement last September.
Lees meerFrom the Linux distro hacked on GitHub and Facebook and Google's manipulation of us with “dark patterns” to the security camera footage sent to the wrong person, and more!
Lees meerPrivacy advocates are concerned that tech giants are using design patterns that discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy.
Lees meerGentoo Linux has been hacked, with "all code considered compromised" on GitHub - fortunately, the master repository is safe.
Lees meer40,000 Ticketmaster customers in the UK and beyond were definitely affected - for the rest of us, maybe change that password anyway...
Lees meerThe file type used by Windows 10’s settings page can be used to trick Windows into running files it's supposed to block.
Lees meerThe opposite of serendipity - a security camera service sent video alerts to the wrong user... who just happened to be a BBC journalist.
Lees meerNew patents suggest Facebook's going to soon know when you're asleep, when you're awake, and is going to have a good guess at when you're going to die.
Lees meerAfter a spate of attacks on industrial control systems (ICS), the US this week officially recognized the need to secure them with a new bill.
Lees meerTwitter has added the ability to authenticate to the service using hardware tokens such as Yubico’s YubiKey.
Lees meerNew Wi-Fi security standards don’t come along very often but the Wi-Fi Alliance has just formally launched one, Wi-Fi Protected Access 3, or WPA3.
Lees meerShe somehow allowed an online "friend" to get hold of her address - with a tragic outcome.
Lees meerPrivacy activists scored a legal victory this week after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful for law enforcement and federal agencies to access cellphone location records without a warrant.
Lees meerThe latest subject in a string of online shaming incidents was scrabbling to make amends this week as her business life fell apart and the death threats flooded in.
Lees meerSTARTTLS is the email command that switches into encrypted mode. EFF just announced "STARTTLS Everyhere" to get everyone on board...
Lees meerMozilla’s enthusiasm for Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? service has cranked up a level with the news it plans to integrate its breach checking into a new tool called Privacy Monitor.
Lees meerRoll up, roll up, the Bitcoin Core developers are finally set to reveal the cryptocurrency's alert key.
Lees meerRAT may be short for Remote Access Trojan, but the word also refers to a well-known type of rodent...
Lees meerA New York school district is hoping to use technology to make its children safer. But not everyone is happy about it.
Lees meerIn another one of those privacy hiccups Facebook is making a habit of lately, the company has admitted accidentally copying some weekly app developer emails to the wrong recipients.
Lees meerAzure AD Password Protection prevents users from setting a password from the company’s list of 500 most common and easily-guessed examples.
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