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Adobe’s poor password security forces Facebook to block accounts

November 13, 2013

The recent Guinness-world-record-sized breach at Adobe is poised to cause many problems for the users whose login information was compromised. It wouldn’t be that great …

Photoshop source code stolen, 38M users affected in Adobe hack

October 29, 2013

Remember the successful attack against Adobe’s networks made public earlier this month? Well, as it turns out, the damage is larger than initially thought. Early results …

DeviceLock now prevents data leakage from Macs

September 20, 2013

DeviceLock announced DeviceLock Endpoint DLP Suite 7.3 that delivers essential device control capabilities for corporate endpoints with OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion …

EU debates NSA surveillance impact and media freedom

September 12, 2013

The impact of US National Security Agency and other surveillance programs on EU citizens’ privacy and media freedom and the lack of democratic oversight of these …

Medical lab allegedly exposed consumer info on P2P network

August 30, 2013

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against medical testing laboratory LabMD claiming that in two separate incidents, LabMD collectively exposed the personal …

Leaked info of Federal Reserve employees was stolen during earlier breach

August 26, 2013

Hacker collective Anonymous has apparently leaked a file which supposedly contains personal details of every employee of the US Federal Reserve Bank – names, job titles, …

LastPass bug leaks plain text passwords

August 19, 2013

Users of popular password manager LastPass have been advised to update to the latest version of the software, which incorporates a patch for a recently discovered bug that …

Snowden given asylum by Russia, leaves Moscow airport

August 1, 2013

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation and has left the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, RT reports. …

US SEC data leak shows lax data access practices

July 26, 2013

When a former employee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission left the organization for a job with another federal agency, he “inadvertently and unknowingly” …

Ubuntu Forums hacker won’t publish stolen passwords

July 23, 2013

The Ubuntu Forums are still down following this weekend’s breach claimed by a hacker that goes by the online handle “Sputn1k_”, and there is no news on when …

2.5 million Californians had personal info compromised

July 3, 2013

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris released the first report detailing the 131 data breaches reported to her office in 2012, showing that 2.5 million Californians had personal …

Facebook bug leaked more info than company reported?

June 27, 2013

Last Friday, Facebook tried to make its latest disclosure of an information-leaking bug as low-key as possible, but luckily there were researchers who actually analyzed the …