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Gyft, a digital gift card platform that enables you to buy, send, and manage gift cards from hundreds of retailers, is notifying users who may have been affected by a security …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Fake Amazon survey-for-money offer leads to account compromise “As a valued …

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) will hold its fourth hackathon at the RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco, to continue to test the CSA Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) …

No matter what business you’re in, the one thing you produce more than anything else is text. Every day, you and your colleagues are creating, discussing, and documenting …

The European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield. The College of Commissioners approved the …

Check Point researchers have discovered a severe vulnerability in eBay’s online sales platform, which allows criminals to distribute malware and run phishing campaigns. …

A new report is describing major security and privacy issues in several leading wearable fitness tracking devices and accompanying mobile applications. The research examined …

As scrutiny of well-known financial services firms’ security practices continues to make news, the SEC has chosen to turn its attention to risks facing a certain subset of the …

A new survey by the Ponemon Institute provides insight into topics like the average earnings of a cyberattacker, the amount of time attacks typically take, and how to prevent …

Last week HSBC’s online banking website was taken down by a DDoS attack, leaving thousands of customers unable to access its services. Here are some of the comments Help Net …

Android phones are popular and growing more so every day. According to research firm IDC, there were close to 350 million active smartphones worldwide in the second quarter of …

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. Tails 2.0 is …