Internet of Things: Connecting the security dots from application design to post-sale
The age of Internet of Things is upon us. While it’s still early days, Gartner predicts that by 2020, the Internet of Things will be made up of 26 billion connected devices …
GnuPG 2.1.9 released
The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard which is commonly abbreviated as PGP. It allows to encrypt and sign data and …
Theoretical computer science provides answers to data privacy problem
The promise of big data lies in researchers’ ability to mine massive datasets for insights that can save lives, improve services and inform our understanding of the …
Apple boots some ad blockers from App Store to protect users’ privacy
Less than a month has passed since the release of iOS 9, with which Apple welcomed third-party ad blocking apps, and the company has removed some of them from the App …
Most are concerned about security of healthcare data
More than three-fourths (76 percent) of U.S. adults are concerned that their healthcare records are vulnerable to hackers, according to the University of Phoenix.Perhaps not …
Wealth of personal data found on used electronics purchased online
Varying amounts and types of residual data have been found on used mobile devices, hard disk drives and solid state drives purchased online from Amazon, eBay and …
High prevalence of personal health information at risk
The healthcare and life sciences vertical is responsible for 76.2 percent of all cloud data loss prevention (DLP) policy violations among the billions of total app instances …
T-Mobile customer data stolen from Experian already for sale
The personal info of 15 million T-Mobile USA customers stolen in the recently revealed Experian breach is possibly being already sold on the Dark Web.Irish fraud prevention …
Millions affected by Scottrade brokerage breach that dates back two years
Missouri-based retail brokerage firm Scottrade has suffered a breach nearly two years ago, but they are only notifying their customers about it now, because they only found …
Personal info of 15 million T-Mobile USA customers stolen in Experian breach
Personal information of some 15 million T-Mobile US customers and applicants has been stolen by hackers who managed to breach several Experian servers. The credit agency …
Unsurprisingly, companies are not protecting personal information
According to a global survey of privacy and risk professionals, more than half of the 780 respondents say consumers should not feel confident that companies are adequately …
Hilton, Trump hotel chains hit by PoS malware
“Payment card data of visitors of a number of Hilton and Trump hotels in the US have been compromised, and some of it is being already used by crooks to rack up …