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An American writer who discovered that a draft of her latest book was leaked on the Internet decided to stop writing, although the first 12 chapters of it were ready for editing and publishing. Stephenie Meyer, author of the vampire novels “The Host,” “Twilights” and its sequels, all targeting... |
5 September 2008
10:21 GMT |
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A list concerning the immigrants who must be watched by the Hong Kong authorities has been leaked on the web due to what appears to be the mistake of an employee. According to The Earth Times, the employee who caused the data loss was recently hired at the Immigration Department in Hong Kong. However, the way the fil... |
9 May 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Although it's not the first time it happens, new songs have just got published on YouTube even if they were scheduled for a later release date. This time, the leaked songs belong to Oasis and, according to various sources, they were supposed to be included into the band's new album. Web User informs that th... |
8 May 2008
02:10 GMT |
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Yesterday we reported that the source code of the popular MMO game Eve Online was leaked to a torrent website, following one user's attempt to prove to the developers at CCP that the security of the game itself is not good enough. Today, a CCP rep talked about the problem and explained why this leak can not affe... |
16 April 2008
13:06 GMT |
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Lindsay Lohan has been involved with enough Hollywood men to be the protagonist of more than just one sex tape - so it may come across as surprising that the young actress' maneater ways were never immortalized on camera (hidden or not). However, for those of you eager to see Lohan's famed uber-sexy naked b... |
25 March 2008
09:17 GMT |
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Not very long ago, there was a lawsuit that had Google on the seat of the accused, over a very complicated, yet very plain issue. The plaintiff claimed that he was in danger of being a victim of identity theft because the name of the Mountain View-based company was actually his Social Security number looked at upside... |
29 February 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Yahoo! Buzz was launched on Monday with a lot of buzz. Being leaked information about on repeated occasions, everybody had their hopes high about the Yahoo! branded Digg clone. It turns out that negative publicity isn't all that constructive. I remember reading at some point in college a quote saying that bad pu... |
27 February 2008
14:26 GMT |
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There's nothing to kick your morning into gear like finding out that your browser can be the means of losing personal information. I'm talking about the people who actually care and did not go with the stock Windows Internet Explorer, known to be flawed and continually exploited. Choosing the safer version ... |
19 February 2008
15:51 GMT |
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The recent release of the (Arguably) Punk Pack 02 DLC for Rock Band has been followed by a rather unexpected and almost officially confirmed leak: a file called spa.bin contains what seems to be the entire list of future Rock Band DLC! And this is absolutely incredible!Everything started over at the scorehero forums,... |
14 February 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Imagine how it would be like if one of your most tender moments was to be videotaped and later uploaded to YouTube for everybody to see. Not such a comfortable feeling, is it? Unfortunately for a Chinese couple, that's exactly what happened and the video was an instant hit, with over 15 thousand views in only tw... |
22 January 2008
19:31 GMT |
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If you think the HMRC data loss affecting 25 million people is not enough to make you accept the fact that your information is not secure wherever it would be, then listen to this: another data loss occurred in UK, as details of about 3 million people had "gone missing from a facility in Iowa in the United States." T... |
18 December 2007
03:47 GMT |
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We should really start getting used to it, because the data loss a.k.a. stolen laptops a.k.a. lost CDs a.k.a. employees' negligences make more and more victims all around the world. After millions of people were put at risk due to major data leaks, here comes another one: today, "The Press Association" reports ... |
12 December 2007
03:27 GMT |
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It's no longer a secret that our data is put at risk due to employees' negligence, as they have periodically lost CDs, laptops or computers hosting our information, so today's piece of news is nothing new for us. However, let's see what happened and how it occurred. According to BBC News, the Dri... |
12 December 2007
03:04 GMT |
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November and December came with a worrying high number of data losses that makes the security experts, from all around the world, give advises for a better and more powerful computer protection. Following the recent two major UK data leaks, concerning the HMRC and the DWP, Calum Macleod, European Director with Cyber-... |
5 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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It seems like the HMRC data loss was not enough to make the authorities feel more responsible since they work with very important residents' information. Today, CBC News reports that an official in Newfoundland and Labrador could allow unauthorized people to access HIV and hepatitis details stored on a desktop c... |
28 November 2007
09:57 GMT |
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Following the recent HMRC data loss that affected approximately 25 million people, the consumers and the security companies from all over the world commented on the disaster, many of them saying that it could be prevented using a powerful security technology. A recent study conducted by security vendor Sophos reveale... |
27 November 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The recent UK trouble in which the data of about 25 million people was lost proved us that it's extremely important to keep our very important information secure and protected. But it also reminded us to backup our files since a so important data loss can affected all the data stored on our computers. However, s... |
23 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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And the story continues. This time, we have an official statement from HMRC which published a 'Child Benefit customer update' on its official page to provide more information about the recent tragedy. In case you missed the news, although it's pretty difficult especially if you're living in UK, th... |
22 November 2007
04:36 GMT |
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Yesterday's confirmed UK data loss which put the information of about 25 million Britons at risk attracts more and more comments from the security vendors from all over the world which obviously fight for better security for digital material. After Sophos and McAfee, the first two companies which came out to tal... |
22 November 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Earlier this day, it was reported that the government confirmed a major data loss caused by the HM Revenue and Customs, the UK tax department which collects taxes and works with a huge amount of residents details. Obviously, the data leakage brought at least interesting statements of the security vendors which fight... |
21 November 2007
14:56 GMT |
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The HM Revenue & Customs is one of the departments owned by the British Government which is supposed to take care of tax collecting and other reponsabilities related to tax administration and organization. Since it works with residents' financial details, it's pretty important to secure the entire amount of... |
21 November 2007
02:43 GMT |
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Preparations are being made at Sony Ericsson for a major release, expected on the 6th of November. That's today and leaves little time for guessing, although rumors on three upcoming phone models have already surfaced.Sony Ericsson's future releases will be the W890i, the W380i and K660i models, all with so... |
6 November 2007
06:01 GMT |
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In a previous article we mentioned that the leaked version of Manhunt 2 was made available by an employee who wasn't part of the Rockstar staff. According to anonymous sources, the man has already been sacked and it seems that he was a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe employee. He was granted access to the pr... |
22 October 2007
08:10 GMT |
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This whole leaking affair is really getting disgusting... There was a time when gaming journalists were the absolute exclusive owners of the first demos and copies of famous titles. Now, we're constantly beaten by those hackers and downloaders who manage to get the game before we do... Just think about Silent H... |
19 October 2007
04:19 GMT |
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Retail Giant TJX had suffered a severe security breach in which 45 million customers' data had been stolen. A huge operation! And as if things weren't bad enough, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada explains in a report that this breach was predictable. I don't think I need to say more - y... |
27 September 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Some things you just can't prevent. eBay is striving as hard as they can to make it safe for their customers, as they offer a lot of protection methods and they increase security on their site, but it seems that no matter what they do, from time to time we still get eBay related crime news. eBay users' sens... |
26 September 2007
04:07 GMT |
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This is the first article in the 'security news' category this week and… it's bad news. Some hackers strive really hard to get a load of sensitive data, but sometimes, they don't need to. Some users offer sensitive data on a silver platter, just because they're negligent. Here's how thin... |
24 September 2007
03:05 GMT |
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Negligence strikes again! As if Formula 1 fans hadn't received a big enough strike, after McLaren had been stripped of all its constructor championship points, now the FIA posts sensitive data on the web for all to see. I cannot believe how these guys can screw things up so bad! Who needs espionage and special t... |
21 September 2007
13:06 GMT |
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As you may already know, there are two types of hackers - the ones that do it for a good cause, and by that I mean disclosing vulnerabilities and reporting them to the ones that have them, and then there are the evil ones that hack for their own inscrutable purposes. Of course, data breaches are usually due to attack... |
17 September 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Last month we saw a major leak, the Silent Hill Origins PSP demo and now there's another similar title, available on torrent sites: Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. It seems that PSP games have a tendency to become available earlier than scheduled, especially for those that choose to use the illegal way of playi... |
12 September 2007
04:31 GMT |
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An important part in protecting a database is masking the info inside it. Your programs can still read it, but hackers will get things mixed up if they do access the info. Masking the data is also called "de-identification" or "data-hiding" and it is thought to be a pretty good security measure.George Duncan is a sta... |
6 September 2007
09:30 GMT |
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A lot of personal data of many people, mostly computer users from the United States, reside on a French server, as NetworkWorld informs. There is nothing bizarre about this, unless you treat if from a "paranoid security geek" perspective. So, how much info is there? Well, the personal details of thousands. How did it... |
4 September 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Another laptop has been stolen and sensitive information has been exposed. This time, it's At&T that's been affected. But this has become rather common lately, I guess that we've had one of these cases every week. However, AT&T's situation is a little bit more severe than others' since all th... |
3 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Data leaks have recently affected lots of people and a site containing personal information of more than 2 million users has been breached. Hackers bypassed the defenses and stole sensitive info that a lot of people had placed on that page. The website that we are talking about is USAjobs and it is a governmental web... |
31 August 2007
05:06 GMT |
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You've probably heard about security breaches and data being stolen a thousand times on the news. This is not something new and people don't seem to be very affected by this, probably because it's not a direct threat. If your data gets stolen, nothing bad actually happens, it needs to be used in a cert... |
30 August 2007
04:47 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Information has been wiretapping since…forever, but only recently have there been some scandals of them violating privacy and stuff like that. Some security experts have even stated that their huge data-bases of wiretapped info could represent a vulnerability for the US, should anyone hack them.... |
30 August 2007
03:28 GMT |
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Are we paranoid security geeks or is this really a threat? Well, to be honest, I think that school sites giving away all sorts of data about their students are easing the 'work' of hackers. Nobody is in any direct danger, so to say, but every bit of info disclosed might be a starting point for malicious us... |
29 August 2007
09:49 GMT |
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Although the launch of Nokia N81 is expected to take place today, during the GoPlay presentation in London, some official photos have already appeared. The same has happened with the other devices that will be presented on this occasion, but Nokia N81 is probably the most expected of them all.What this device has to ... |
29 August 2007
06:04 GMT |
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If you don't leave tracks on the Web it's less likely to get hacked. Hide really well and you will have less problems. I've seen theese things before with several firewalls, it's called the "They can't harm me if they don't know I'm here" principle (isn't that a mouth full?). S... |
28 August 2007
04:14 GMT |
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Hackers hit the bank. Data is stolen. People's identities are in danger. Bank representatives don't care. That says it all in a nutshell. In my opinion, it's not the bank's fault that hackers exist and attack databases. It all happened in Indiana, involving the Old National Bancorp and tens of tho... |
27 August 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Can Voice Over IP calls be listened to by malicious users? Well, while using the basic "It's on the Net so it can be hacked" mentality, the answers is "Yes", at least for now. Phishing by phone has not been considered a real issue till now, because talking on the phone costs money, while e-mailing is free. Also,... |
27 August 2007
05:14 GMT |
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You can never be too secure! But if you do have well defended PCs and such, you can never know what is going to happen in real life, that will mess up something in your data base. You can get all sorts of fire-walls installed, and have anti-virus programs running all the time, but what's the use of all these whe... |
27 August 2007
03:54 GMT |
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Sensitive data protection is a big issue these days. IT experts everywhere try to defend their companies' data as well as they can, still, in some cases, it leaks and hackers get a hold of it.Fidelis Security announced on Tuesday a quick start program for its data-leak prevention product that is bound to help co... |
23 August 2007
05:38 GMT |
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Verus is an online bill-paying company that had a huge database of their clients. They have been recently forced out of business because of information that leaked and which anyone could find via Google.Verus was working together with a lot of hospitals in order to facilitate bill-paying. A lot of data about hospital... |
20 August 2007
14:26 GMT |
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