Poor People’s Privacy Can’t Be an Afterthought The New York Times
When someone who is living paycheck to paycheck falls victim to an online fraud or a breach, the cascade of repercussions can be devastating.
Companies store a ton of data. You know this. Everyone knows this. But we’re not always happy about the kinds of data they store. We rightfully get pretty touchy when we hear our address, credit card number, mental health inquiries, or private conversations a…
Nissan Motor said on Monday it had filed a criminal complaint against former Chairman Carlos Ghosn related to an aggravated breach of trust under Japan's Companies Act.
What you missed in cybersecurity this week TechCrunch
It’s been a busy week — it’s tough to keep up with all the cybersecurity news. We’ve collected some of the biggest cybersecurity stories from the week — from TechCrunch and afar — to keep you up to date with the latest hacks, privacy breaches and security sto…
Names, soccer players, musicians and fictional characters make up some of the worst passwords of the year, according to the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Center. But nothing beats “123456” as the worst password of all. It’s no shock to any seasone…
The leaks are never-ending; but naturally, some are more sensitive than others. Read more...
Tokyo prosecutors are likely to indict former Nissan Motor Co Ltd boss Carlos Ghosn on an additional charge of aggravated breach of trust as early as Monday, when his current detention period expires, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday.
Sports of The Times: At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall The New York Times
Two University of Colorado regents have spoken out about the morality of colleges supporting big-time football. “I can’t do this anymore,” said one who cast a vote against football.
North Korea Tests New Weapon, State News Agency Says The New York Times
North Korea had declared a moratorium on missile tests after the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.
Hackers spent months with full access to Outlook, Hotmail, and MSN email accounts—and got in through Microsoft's customer support platform.
A series of security reports published over the weekend have raised serious concerns about Microsoft’s transparency in the wake of a recent data breach. Read more...
A group of hackers has exploited the flaws of at least three FBI-affiliated websites and leaked thousands of federal and law enforcement agents' personal details. According to TechCrunch, the group infiltrated websites run by the FBI National Academy Associat…
Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts TechCrunch
On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January, Microsoft has faced another breach affecting its web-based email services. Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a cert…
Jos Buttler blitz helps RR breach the Wankhede fortress Cricbuzz IPL 2019: Jos Buttler 89 scripts Rajasthan Royals victory over Mumbai Indians India Today IPL 2019, MI vs RR Match at Wankhede: Royals Win by Four Wickets News18 MI vs RR Live Score, IPL 2019: J…
An earlier settlement was thrown out as not being adequate. Back in 2016, Yahoo announced that all 3 billion of its customers’ accounts had their login information stolen. Not only that, but Yahoo took three years to tell the public about the potentially stat…
At a time when every high-profile data breach sheds more light on how web activity is monitored, Firefox is launching anti-tracking tools to protect against fingerprinting and crypto-mining. Mozilla is again teaming up with Disconnect -- a software company th…
IPL 2019, CSK v KKR Preview: Local boy Karthik looks to breach Super Kings fortress - Sportstar The Hindu
IPL 2019, CSK v KKR Preview: Local boy Karthik looks to breach Super Kings fortress Sportstar Dhoni bhai was very angry with me, but after the match he hugged me and said 'well done': Deepak Chahar Times of India IPL 2019 CSK vs KKR Preview: Rampage looms, ca…
Large corporations collecting our data and resetting passwords after every major data breach can feel like inevitabilities we just have to accept in 2019. But there are ways to protect your data and privacy. Read more...
The businessman, who faces charges of financial misconduct, was re-arrested last week.
The most popular speedrunning website, Speedrun.com, has reverted all its rankings to their April 1 state after a security breach left many leaderboards at risk of tampering. After a similar issue in November 2018, the site’s owner is considering strengthened…
Seemingly the sole government body policing tech platforms, the ole’ European Union, is now taking aim at desktop gaming’s biggest storefront, Steam, and its creator Valve. The commission sent a “Statements of Objections” to Valve and five other video game pu…
New audio was released of a Chinese woman the FBI is investigating, after she was arrested at Mar-a-Lago, accused of illegally entering the president's vacation home.
CNN's Jake Tapper reports on how the recent security breach at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate raises concerns over Trump's apparent disregard for a tight security protocol.
Former counterintelligence officer says Mar-a-Lago security breach over the weekend is "dangerous." (April 3)
Lisa Hawke Contributor Share on Twitter Lisa Hawke (@ldhawke) is VP of Security and Compliance at Everlaw, and Vice Chair of Women in Security and Privacy. Slack and other consumer-grade productivity tools have been taking off in workplaces large and small — …
N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Biggest Breach of U.S. Secrets Pleads Guilty The New York Times
The contractor, Harold Martin, was arrested in 2016, but investigators never found evidence that he had shared stolen classified information with anyone.
Joseph Tsidulko, writing for CRN: Oracle asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to not review an appellate court's decision finding Google violated Oracle's copyright of the Java platform when building the Android mobile operating system. In that oppositio…
In the increasingly digitized world of healthcare, how can all involved uphold their responsibilities, follow relevant laws and maintain the trust of patients when it comes to privacy?
HMD Global releases statement regarding Nokia 7 Plus alleged “data breach” - gizmochina Gizmochina.com
HMD Global releases statement regarding Nokia 7 Plus alleged “data breach” gizmochina Nokia 7 Plus Data Breach Issue Already Fixed, No Data Compromised: HMD Global NDTV HMD Global Confirms Nokia 7 Plus Devices Sent Sensitive Data to China, Finnish Authorities…
FEMA Breach Exposes Personal Data and Banking Information of 2.3 Million Disaster Survivors Gizmodo.com
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have put the personally identifying information of millions of disaster survivors at risk of fraud and identity theft, according to a recent report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector Gene…
The attorney general for the District of Columbia may have obtained internal company emails showing that Facebook had knowledge of Cambridge Analytica’s data-harvesting efforts months sooner than CEO Mark Zuckerberg let on last year. But the company is now in…
The strategy game Into The Breach is elegant in its simplicity, but that’s because its designers had to scrap several huge sections of the game that just didn’t work. Matthew Davis and Justin Ma, the minds behind FTL and Into The Breach, came on Kotaku Splits…
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ passwords were stored in plain text, completely searchable by Facebook employees for years. Some users had their passwords stored in plain text as early as 2012, according to a senior Facebook source who spoke to KrebsO…
England run in 12 tries in thrashing Scotland to seal a ninth Grand Slam and regain the Six Nations title.
When a company is hacked, consumers usually find out about it through the press or emails. You probably remember the Target hack that spilled data from millions of credit and debit card accounts. But do you remember the last publicly disclosed Congressional c…
Following the revelations of a $90 million golden parachute to Andy Rubin, a former Google executive accused of sexually harassing a subordinate, a recently unsealed complaint shows the company approved a further $45 million send-off to Amit Singhal, the comp…
Dip into one of six schools of magic as you take on creatures from mythologies from around the world.
Facebook sued two Ukrainian men for creating malicious plugins that compromised 63,000 Facebook users’ browsers and allowed the collection of private data.
Rapper 21 Savage is being sued by club promoter Sadaetirs Kent Smith for breach of contract and $1 million for emotional distress.
Jess Breach scores twice in England women’s nine-try thrashing of Italy The Guardian (AU)
• England 55-0 Italy • Captain Sarah Hunter returns to score try in 112th game England’s women all but wrapped up the Six Nations title in Exeter and it is impossible to imagine Scotland denying them a grand slam at Twickenham next Saturday night. Sarah Hunte…
California Today: With a New Influx of Wealth, Is San Francisco Over? The New York Times
Friday: Tech wealth is already a sore spot, and it’s even less likely to change with the crush of anticipated I.P.O.’s; demographic changes; and moronga
Wigan Warriors' two-point deduction for salary cap breaches is suspended until 2020 after an appeal.
Startup Law A to Z: Customer Contracts TechCrunch
Your startup needs customers to survive. If and when you make sales or generate installs, you are wading into the fast moving stream of commerce and exposing yourself to risk. Well-drafted customer contracts limit your liability and create legally enforceable…
For too many people, moving the digits around in some variation of Patriots69Lover is their idea of a strong password. So you might expect something complicated like” “ji32k7au4a83” would be a great password. But according to the data breach repository Have I…
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Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou files lawsuit alleging breach of constitutional rights - The Globe and Mail The Globe And Mail
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou files lawsuit alleging breach of constitutional rights The Globe and Mail China accuses detained Canadians of spying, days after Huawei extradition hearing approved The Globe and Mail Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou sues Canadian governm…
In this week's newsletter: Justin Caldbeck battles Jonathan Teo, venture capital flows to mental health and some tips on term sheets.
itwbennett writes: If you're running Elasticsearch 1.4.2 and lower, you should make sure your patches are up to date. That's because researchers from Cisco's Talos group have "detected an increase in attacks targeting unsecured Elasticsearch clusters." At lea…
Justin Caldbeck, angry the Binary Capital co-founder couldn't save the firm following his own sexual harassment scandal, alleges breach of contract and fraud in the lawsuit.
Justin Caldbeck, angry the Binary Capital co-founder couldn't save the firm following his own sexual harassment scandal, alleges breach of contract and fraud in the lawsuit.
Benjamin Netanyahu is the dominant Israeli politician of his generation. No rival comes close in political skill to the Likud Party leader known widely as "Bibi".
Watch Equifax’ CEO get schooled in a congressional hearing about his company’s massive data breach The Next Web
In September 2017, US-based credit reporting firm Equifax revealed that its site had suffered a breach, and 143 million citizens’ records were stolen in the attack – names, addresses, social security numbers, and all. The breach, as we subsequently learned, c…
Privacy and security remain a centerpiece of House Democrats’ agenda this year. To further efforts to pass comprehensive federal law protecting consumers from malfeasance from corporations like Facebook, hearings continue to be scheduled with experts to debat…
Colossal Marriott Breach Inspires New California Bill That Would Require More of Companies That Get Pwned Gizmodo.com
Prompted by last year’s Marriott International data breach, which saw more than 25 million unencrypted passport numbers leaked among other sensitive info, the state of California may soon require companies to notify customers when passport information and bio…
California, which has some of the strongest data breach notification laws in the U.S., thinks it can do ever better. The golden state’s attorney general Xavier Becerra announced a new bill Thursday that aims to close loopholes in its existing data breach noti…
Labour reports former MP Joan Ryan over alleged data breach The Guardian (AU)
Party claims MP contacted its supporters after quitting for the Independence Group Labour has reported its former MP Joan Ryan to the Information Commissioner’s Office, though the MP strongly denies she she accessed party systems to contact members after resi…
Review site Trustpilot says it’s creating more transparency around how businesses respond to consumer reviews. Founder and CEO Peter Mühlmann told me that while “the vast majority of companies” are using their ability to flag questionable reviews in “exactly …
A new ranking of nation-state hacker speed puts Russia on top by a span of hours.
Security reporter Zack Whittaker writes: In my years covering cybersecurity, there's one variation of the same lie that floats above the rest. "We take your privacy and security seriously." You might have heard the phrase here and there. It's a common trope u…
Authorities say a man was arrested after he attempted to breach a security checkpoint at a Florida airport.
Hotel chain giant Marriott will now let you check if you’re a victim of the Starwood hack. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has put in place “a mechanism to enable guests to look up individual passport numbers to see if they were included in the se…
Nest is locking users out of their accounts if it thinks their passwords have been breached The Verge
Nest is proactively locking people out of their accounts if it believes their passwords have been compromised. The company began sending out emails to affected users last night.
Millions of people who use the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel woke up on Valentine's Day to some unsetting news: their personal information had been compromised. Coffee Meets Bagel reported a massive data breach affecting "approximately" six million users Thur…
Dating App's Reputation Schmeared by Data Breach Gizmodo.com
Coffee Meets Bagel—the worst-named dating app in an extremely competitive field—spent Valentine’s Day performing one of the more intimate acts a company can engage in: informing its users of a data breach. Read more...
If you were trying to find the love of your life on Coffee Meets Bagel before May 2018, your personal data was possibly stolen. The company sent out an email to users telling them that some of their personal information may have been breached.
Photo-sharing service 500px has announced that it was the victim of a hack back in July 2018 and that personal data was exposed for all the roughly 14.8 million accounts that existed at the time. PetaPixel reports: In an email sent out to users and an announc…
Every year, Reddit receives subpoenas, search warrants and court orders from governments, law enforcement and private parties around the world. Often they want information on users -- perhaps in an investigation or public emergency -- or for Reddit to take do…
Debra Berlyn Contributor Share on Twitter Debra Berlyn is the president of Consumer Policy Solutions and the executive director of Project GOAL, a project to raise awareness of both the benefits and challenges of innovative new technologies for the aging comm…
It’s bad enough that dating sites are a pit of exaggerations and inevitable disappointment, they’re also a hot target for hackers. Dating sites aren’t considered the goldmine of personal information like banks or hospitals, but they’re still an intimate part …
What's Your Greatest Gaming Comeback Moment? Kotaku.com
The final decision I made in Into the Breach cost me the life of one of my pilots, and almost cost me the entire game. Read more...
England thrash Grand Slam champions France to claim a crucial bonus-point 41-26 win and become favourites to win the Women's Six Nations.
Brazilian mining firm evacuates 500 people from dam area The Guardian (AU)
Preventive measure comes after breach at an another Vale-owned mine killed 150 people The Brazilian mining company Vale SA has evacuated about 500 people from a dam area in a mine in the state of Minas Gerais, two weeks after a dam breach at another mine run …
Mumsnet reports itself to regulator over data breach The Guardian (AU)
Company apologises after bug meant users were able to log into accounts of strangers Mumsnet has reported itself to the information commissioner after a data breach resulted in users accidentally logging into the accounts of strangers. Related: Mumsnet forums…
Google is rolling out two new tools today to help the password-challenged beef up their security game. The first is a Chrome extension called Password Checkup that can identify if you’re using a password that’s been exposed in a third-party data breach. The s…
Houzz, a $4 billion-valued home improvement startup that recently laid off 10 percent of its staff, has admitted a data breach. A reader contacted TechCrunch on Thursday with a copy of an email sent by the company. It doesn’t say much — such as when the breac…
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and a…
A server security lapse has exposed a massive database of customer information belonging to Rubrik, an IT security and cloud data management giant. The company pulled the server offline Tuesday within an hour of TechCrunch alerting the company, after the data…
US Judge Rejects Yahoo Data Breach Settlement Slashdot.org
A U.S. judge rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history, faulting the Internet services provider for a lack of transparency. From a report…
"Yahoo’s… lack of transparency related to the data breaches [is] egregious."
Vulnerable software that helped cause Equifax breach still being used by major U.S. corporations Mashable
Someone at these companies, please update your software! Hundreds of major U.S. corporations are using the same flawed version of server software that led to the 2017 Equifax breach, according to open source software automation firm, Sonatype. In a report pub…
Singapore HIV registry data leaked online in health breach BBC News HIV Status of More Than 14,000 People Leaked in Singapore Data Breach The Wall Street Journal U.S. citizen leaks data on thousands in Singapore with HIV, government says Reuters Gan Kim Yong …
Getting your security budget right - DatacenterDynamics Datacenterdynamics.com
Every year for many technology organizations, seeing daily headlines with reports of data breaches and cyberattacks from all corners of the globe is highlighting the need to ensure they are protected. Board rooms and executive management are more aware of the…
The longer the federal shutdown lasted, the more likely security breaches of government websites become, cyber specialists said. The shutdown could lead to security problems long after the government reopens.
A bank was hacked using LinkedIn and Skype Securitynewspaper.com
Attackers took advantage of a bank employee to penetrate their computer infrastructure. Redbanc, a company responsible for administering the interbank ATM network in Chile, suffered a serious cybersecurity incident, reported network security and ethical hacki…
The Yellow Vest Movement Has Officially Gone Global Wakingtimes.com
<b>Tyler Durden</b> - Conspicuously absent from the list? The United States.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google received a hefty fine of $56.8 million from France's privacy regulator, which used its new powers to levy much higher penalties for the first time under European Union data protection rules. France's data authority CNIL said the amount …
A Year of British Murder review – a coldly mechanical collage of 768 tragic deaths The Guardian (AU)
A documentary examining every murder committed in 2017 takes awful tales of deep, abject grief and skims over every single one There is, of course, an unending, unyielding pathos to the stories told by the unendingly, unyieldingly bereaved people in a program…
PIO who got adopted son killed goes on trial The Times of India
LONDON: Leading barristers representing a British PIO woman and an Indian man accused of plotting the murder of a 12-year-old Indian orphan to get mil.
Russia acknowledges new missile but says it does not breach treaty Freemalaysiatoday.com
Russia had denied developing what US intelligence calls the SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile system.
Today’s List of Paid Games That Are Free at the Play Store Including Air Hockey VR and More Wccftech.com
Free games. Watch this space for free apps tomorrow. Fit Toon – Series 1 Fit Toon is a game played by placing a color that matches the colorless character. Complete the colors of over 170 characters with an easy and simple game method using swipe. Complete my…
The Blood Runs Like a River in Monstress #19 [REVIEW] Bleedingcool.com
The stakes are raised as Maika and Corvo search desperately for their missing friend in the thrilling Monstress #19 from... Read More The post The Blood Runs Like a River in Monstress #19 [REVIEW] appeared first on Bleeding Cool News And Rumors.
L’escriptora nord-americana Jennifer Clement (Greenwich, 1960) ha visitat Catalunya com a presidenta del PEN Internacional, l’associació internacional d’escriptors que aplega 148 centres arreu del món. Aquest dilluns el PEN va publicar un manifest en què dema…
Ransomware Attacks to Require Disclosure in North Carolina Bleepingcomputer.com
Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine announced updates designed to strengthen the state's identity theft protection legislation, targeting prevention and consumer protection boost in the face of breaches. [...]
Ransomware Attacks May Soon Require Disclosure in North Carolina Bleepingcomputer.com
Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine announced updates designed to strengthen the state's identity theft protection legislation, targeting prevention and consumer protection boost in the face of breaches. [...]
Analyst Patrick Moorhead weighs in on why Apple didn't use Qualcomm modems in its 2018 models.
Jack Shepherd, 31, fled last March to avoid standing trial over the death of Charlotte Brown, 24, who was killed in December 2015 when his defective speedboat crashed on the Thames.
Former envoys urge China to release Canadians Financial Times
Diplomats write open letter to Xi Jinping as Ottawa-Beijing dispute escalates
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Elliott Advisors has its eye on stake in Dixons Carphone after sharp fall in retailer's share price Thisismoney.co.uk
The hedge fund, which has demanded overhauls at a string of Britain's biggest firms, has been weighing up a purchase of a major shareholding in Dixons Carphone for several weeks.
10 takeaways on training employees to strengthen cybersecurity - New Orleans CityBusiness Neworleanscitybusiness.com
A 2018 study by the Ponemon Institute reports that 27 percent of data breaches are caused by workforce error and negligent employees. The failure to train employees about cybersecurity and to institute a culture of security awareness can lead to disaster.
JUTC probing security breach at depot Entornointeligente.com
Entornointeligente.com / The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) says it has launched a wide-scale investigation into an incident involving a former member of staff who drove away with a bus from one of its depots last month. The ex-worker crashed i…
DFA execs deny passport data breach Inquirer.net
Foreign affairs officials on Monday assured the National Privacy Commission (NPC) that no passport data breach had taken place in the department, contrary to the claim made by Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on his Twitter post on Jan. 9. The personal da…
4 Expert Perspectives on the Collection #1 Data Breach Solutionsreview.com
in a place where hackers could easily obtain it. Cybersecurity professionals continue to investigate the full ramifications of this massive security compromise, which remain uncertain. However, the editors at Solutions Review feel confident that, without ente…
Recent Access Control Vulnerabilities Are Fair Warning Itprotoday.com
The security provided by access control systems is vital, which is why access control vulnerabilities found in a leading system are so troubling.
Russia has rejected a US demand for Moscow to destroy a new cruise missile system.
Speaking at the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich, Sandberg said the firm had 'acknowledged our mistakes' and was 'far from done' trying to fix them.
Last week, lawyers for Professor Rabab Abdulhadi filed suit in US District Court against San Francisco State University and top administrators including President Leslie Wong, seeking a permanent court judgment to protect the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and D…
Lee Daniels' settlement money is paying off Dame Dash's $400K debt. The settlement that Lee Daniels paid to Dame Dash is getting put to good use. Dash has reportedly used the money Daniels owed him to pay off a six-figure debt that's been lingering over him f…
Privacy and Data Security 2018 Year in Review Jdsupra.com
Far-reaching and industry-spanning privacy legislation finally matured in 2018. It is now a thing. After years of ramp-up and speculation as to its immediate impact, the GDPR finally became effective on May 25, 2018. Thus far, enforcement actions utilizing th…
Can’t accept Rohingya, no proof of them crossing over: MHA official Indianexpress.com
Sources in the BSF headquarters in Delhi said there was no question of India accepting them as Bangladesh authorities have not yet provided any evidence of the Rohingya having crossed over from India.
Insurgents Attack Intelligence-Agency Base in Afghanistan, Killing Dozens - The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal
Insurgents Attack Intelligence-Agency Base in Afghanistan, Killing Dozens The Wall Street Journal Afghanistan attack: More than 100 security officers killed in Taliban assault on military base The Independent Taliban kill ‘more than 100 people’ in attack on A…
A TAXI driver suspected of savage sexual assaults on two women he picked up is still working, senior sources say.
Last week, Chilean Senator Felipe Harboe took to Twitter with alarming news – he had got wind that the company running the country’s ATM inter-bank network, Redbanc, had suffered a serious cyberattack at the end of December. Two days later, not long before a …
Alistair Jennings sums up some key science stories in 2018.
Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says she has not been afforded the opportunity to make representations before the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture.
Google gets a $56.8 million fine from the EU’s GDPR Digitalcommerce360.com
(Bloomberg)—Alphabet Inc.’s Google was at the receiving end of a hefty fine of 50 million euros ($56.8 million) by France’s privacy regulator, which used its new powers to levy much higher penalties for the first time under European Union data protection rule…
The Yellow Vest Movement Has Gone Global Wordpress.com
And while most of the protests outside of France happened last month, this is a good list to note where discontent is mounting. Bulgaria: Yellow Vests began protesting the same weekend as the French movement – coming out in force on November 16 to protest in …
Leeds United are unlikely to be hit with a points deduction over the 'spygate' controversy. The FA and EFL are both investigating the incident, but have yet to rule out any form of punishment.
Wolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo has been charged with misconduct after running onto the pitch in celebration of his side's late winner against Leicester.
So Far Apple Giving Program Raised $365M for Non-Profits Macobserver.com
Apple’s Giving program has raised US$365 million for non-profits around the world. It’s an internal program where employees can donate money. [Apple Promotes Giving Tuesday for Apple Pay-ready Charities] A Culture of Giving Apple’s Newsroom entry, titled ‘Out…
Google has been at the receiving end of a hefty fine of $56.8m by France’s privacy regulator, which used its new powers to levy much higher penalties for the first time under European Union data protection rules.
Caribou Coffee Names Longtime Target Executive John Butcher as CEO Dailycoffeenews.com
Caribou Coffee has appointed longtime Target executive John Butcher as CEO. Butcher has been president of the company since joining Caribou in June of 2017. He replaces Sarah Spiegel, who left the …
Sunderland council’s new crusade against cyber attacks - Sunderland Echo Sunderlandecho.com
Council bosses have revealed plans to up defences against cyber attackers with new training, software and safeguards. On January 17, Sunderland City Council’s Scrutiny Co-ordinating Committee heard a presentation about the council’s defences and “cyber hygien…
Airbnb Spying, a Monster Breach, and Intravenous Semen Injection: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week Gizmodo.com
Friends, I have some good news and some bad news. That bad news, if you missed our PSA last week, is that a colossal breach exposed nearly 773 million emails and more than 21 million passwords. This is not ideal, I know. And if you have not already, this is a…
I guess they wouldn't have numbered it if it was the only one. On Jan. 16, security research Troy Hunt uploaded a massive cache of leaked emails and passwords to his invaluable website have i been pwned. The 87GB dataset, dubbed "Collection #1," was admittedl…
Fortnite security breach let hackers take over your account DigitalSpy.com Epic Games will pause 'Fortnite' updates ahead of events to help pros Engadget Epic will hold off on releasing game-changing Fortnite updates before big tournaments The Verge How the E…
News of this week’s so-called “mega breach” might deeply trouble you. If so, that means it’s a perfect time to take control of your personal security. Yes, every company should be held responsible for practicing sloppy security, allowing your sensitive data t…
“Another day, another migraine” is a wonderful morning mantra from Spongebob’s Squidward Q. Tentacles, which you can also apply to your account security on a near-weekly basis. It feels like there is always some new data breach or unfortunate leak you have to…
There’s no shortage of data breaches these days, but this one should make you sit up and pay attention. The newly discovered “Collection #1" is the largest public data breach by volume, with 772,904,991 unique emails and 21,222,975 unique passwords expos…
If you're signed up for one of the many services that alerts you to data breaches when they're discovered (if you're not, you probably should be) then you likely have an email waiting for you. Troy Hunt runs Have I Been Pwned where he makes it his business to…
An unprotected server storing millions of call logs and text messages was left open for months before they were found by a security researcher. If you thought you’d heard this story before, you’re not wrong. Back in November, another telecoms company Voxox ex…
NPC to hold fact-finding inquiry on passport 'data breach' ABS-CBN News Yasay: No data stolen; Locsin ‘misinformed’ about passport data breach INQUIRER.net PNP: Passport data breach a threat to identity, national security CNN Philippines 'Cumbersome': Palace …
According to a report from HackenProof, a database containing resumes of over 200 million job seekers in China was exposed last month. "The leaked info included not just the name and working experience of people, but also their mobile phone number, email, mar…
Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends Kotaku.com
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Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain operator, has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit over the data breach now said to affect upwards of 300 million people. The suit, brought by more than 150 past hotel guests, according to Vox, is at least the sec…
Two months ago, NASA quietly fixed a buggy internal server that was leaking sensitive information about the agency’s staff and their work. The leaking server was — ironically — a bug reporting server, running the popular Jira bug triaging and tracking softwar…
Amazon’s Dash buttons have been found to breach consumer ecommerce rules in Germany. The push-to-order gizmos were debuted by Amazon in 2015, in an attempt by the ecommerce giant to shave friction off of the online shopping process by encouraging consumers to…
SCL Elections, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, pleaded guilty in UK court to violating the Data Protection Act after it failed to comply with a request for information submitted by a citizen and backed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)…
A 20-year-old is held over the leak of hundreds of politicians' information online.
Benjamin Braddock begins his affair with Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate by nervously checking into a hotel under the name Mr. Gladstone. After all, in our cultural imagination, booking a room in a hotel is a refuge for anonymity, and often, the vice that comes…
While downsizing the estimate of how many guests were impacted by the historic breach of its hotel reservation system, Marriott International on Friday announced that roughly 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers are among the sensitive data illegally obt…
German government acknowledges breach of hundreds of documents dating back to 2017.
Hospital apologises for voicemail privacy breach in Manchester The Guardian (AU)
Sensitive patient information inadvertently heard by man calling to change appointment A hospital has apologised after sensitive voicemail messages left by patients were heard by a man trying to change an appointment over the phone. Brian Newton reported that…
DiscountMugs.com, a large online custom mug and apparel store, had a four-month long data breach just before the busy Christmas holiday season. The company said in a letter to state attorney generals that hackers siphoned off credit card numbers from customer…
The hackers who stole Orange is the New Black are back, and they've hit a new low. The group known as TheDarkOverlord claims to have stolen 18,000 documents from Hiscox Syndicates, Lloyds of London and Silverstein Properties, and threatened to release files p…
Hackers stole the personal information of 997 North Korean defectors after accessing a South Korean resettlement agency’s database, according to the South Korean Unification Ministry. Read more...