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Microsoft and Google have recently started to hit one another over the latter’s privacy policies regarding some of its most popular services out there.
Microsoft claims that Google is not playing fair and that it is actually limiting users’ control over their personal data and also suggests that it is ... |
3 February 2012
07:16 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced plans to make a series of changes to its privacy policies regarding some of its most popular products, and concerns on the matter started to emerge soon afterwards.
Some suggested that Google might actually plan on increasing its control over user’s accounts, and that the new chan... |
2 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Those who might have blindly trusted their smartphones will be disappointed to learn that they have been deceived.
Although not everybody admits to using it, a rootkit has been found on many smartphones out there, one that could spy on basically everything that a user would do on the device, courtesy of low-level ... |
2 December 2011
07:59 GMT |
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A leaked document from developer Blizzard shows that the company is ready to work with law enforcement agencies when they are interested in obtaining personal information about the players of the most popular subscription based MMO in the industry, World of Warcraft.The document has been leaked by AntiSec, a hacking ... |
22 November 2011
22:31 GMT |
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Hackers have compromised the website of the BART Police and leaked the personal information of around one hundred officers, including their plaintext passwords.The data was dumped on Pastebin under the title "OPBART, Yet another success." This would suggest the attack was part of Anonymous' Operation BART, howev... |
18 August 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Teams of hackers are still digging up and releasing information about LulzSec members in an attempt to get them arrested. The latest "dox" was dumped earlier this week by TeaMp0isoN and contains information about five individuals believed to have been involved with the defunct hacking outfit.LulzSec disbanded at the ... |
8 July 2011
03:50 GMT |
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Morgan Stanley notified around 34,000 of its investment clients that their personal information has potentially been exposed after two CDs went missing.The CDs were lost by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance after receiving them from Morgan Stanley.The package reached the department intact, but whe... |
6 July 2011
06:55 GMT |
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A group of hackers called TeaMp0isoN has leaked personal information about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as his friends and co-workers.According to the hackers, the information was obtained back in December 2010 from a hacked webmail server that Blair used.The leaked data includes names, home addr... |
25 June 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Security researchers from Finnish antivirus vendor F-Secure have found phishing forms stored as spreadsheets on Google Docs, outlining yet another way in which legitimate services are being abused by cyber criminals.The F-Secure researchers have found several such rogue spreadsheets which seem to be part of different... |
30 May 2011
13:58 GMT |
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Co-operative Life Planning (CLP), an UK provider of funeral insurance and other services, has exposed the personal information of 82,000 customers, the UK Information Commissioner's Office reports.In March 2011, the organization asked one of its software vendors to repair a damaged file that contained customers ... |
30 May 2011
13:42 GMT |
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Following recent revelations that PlayStation Network (PSN) was compromised by hackers who stole the personal information of millions of users, Sony Online Entertainment, another division of Sony Corporation, announced a computer intrusion that led to the exposure of over 24 million personal and financial records.San... |
3 May 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Sony has alerted its over 75 million PlayStation Network customers that their personal and possibly their financial information has been compromised as a result of a recent intrusion that led to the system being shut down.The PlayStation maker finally decided to shed more light into the incident that forced it to tak... |
27 April 2011
05:23 GMT |
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The Office of the Texas Comptroller is in the process of notifying 3.5 million individuals that their personal information was exposed after being stored on a publicly accessible server.The compromised records contained names, mailing addresses, dates of birth, driver's licence numbers and Social Security number... |
12 April 2011
05:41 GMT |
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BP is dealing with a data breach incident after one of its employees lost a laptop computer containing the personal details of thousands of compensation claimants.The lost personal information belongs to 13,000 people who filed claims related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and includes names, addresses, phone num... |
30 March 2011
05:58 GMT |
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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) is notifying 56,000 emergency medical technicians and paramedics that their personal information was exposed after a hacker compromised an Internet-facing system.The breach occurred on September 17, when an unauthorized individual obtained access to a publicly ac... |
1 November 2010
11:56 GMT |
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A former University of Florida employee was sentenced to a year in prison after using the personal information of his co-workers to complete online health surveys.Cam Giang, 31, of San Francisco, CA, pled guilty back in July to one count of wire fraud and one of unlawful use of a Social Security number.According to p... |
29 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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The personal information of over 100,000 students, who applied for University of North Florida (UNF) was exposed after intruders obtained unauthorized access to a computer server containing confidential data.The breach occurred between September 24 and September 29 and according to a description of the incident poste... |
16 October 2010
03:15 GMT |
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An investigation carried out by Sky News uncovered severe abuses of trust in computer repair shops around London. Technicians purposely misdiagnosed a simple problem in order to charge more, while others rifled through or copied documents clearly marked as private. Sky News reporters took a brand-new laptop with Win... |
24 July 2009
06:55 GMT |
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FBHive, a new blog that promises to deliver up-to-date news and information about all things Facebook, dropped a social networking bomb yesterday, by announcing a simple hack that allowed virtually anyone to view a Facebook user's basic profile information. The disclosure finally sent the network's security... |
23 June 2009
04:48 GMT |
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A laptop containing the personal and banking details of 109,000 members of six of the Pensions Trust's 39 schemes was stolen from the offices of NorthgateArinso, a company contracted to develop pension administration software. The computer was password-protected, but the data itself was not encrypted. The Pensi... |
1 June 2009
05:05 GMT |
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The British Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that it came into possession of a USB stick containing the source code of the government's Gateway system as well as personal details of some of the service's registered members. The USB stick was lost outside a pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, by an employee of At... |
3 November 2008
08:29 GMT |
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According to The Register, a laptop belonging to the world renowned financial consulting firm Deloitte has been stolen. The laptop contained the personal and pension information of hundreds of thousands of workers employed by Deloitte's clients. Amongst the affected persons are UK railway workers and the entire ... |
13 October 2008
11:39 GMT |
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The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) has issued the final version of regulations that establish a standard for the protection of personal information stored in paper and electronic records by private businesses. Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, also signed an ... |
26 September 2008
09:50 GMT |
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The police executed a bench warrant and arrested a 60-year-old man resident of Solana Beach, California. He is charged with computer intrusion and extortion and he is scheduled to appear in a federal court on October 31. Bruce Mengler is accused of hacking his way into a promotional website belonging to the US branch... |
24 September 2008
07:39 GMT |
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According to a survey conducted by Cyber-Ark Software among 300 IT security professionals, 88% of them would take sensitive information with them if they were to be fired from their jobs. Only the remaining 12% of them said that they would not take advantage of the security breaches made possible by the companies tha... |
28 August 2008
07:15 GMT |
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A British newspaper reported about what it claims to be the biggest identity theft ever. According to the publication, personal information of over 8 million people is now at stake, as it has been intercepted by an Indian terrorist. Reporters say that the man gained access to a Best Western hotel and installed a troj... |
25 August 2008
12:10 GMT |
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A new anti-piracy tool called "Logistep Data Management Tool" was spotted parked a few days ago on the eparken domain name. Since it was noticed, the tool has been surprisingly taken offline. All the info points to the famous Logistep company that was tracking information on p2p users across Europe.Logistep is a comp... |
12 August 2008
11:19 GMT |
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Internet fraud has increased in the past months at an alarming rate and users generally think that installing a much praised anti-spyware security is achieved. Well, it may come to you as a surprise, but no matter how good an anti spyware is, your sensitive data is still at risk and as soon as a malevolent person get... |
10 April 2007
09:10 GMT |
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