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UK activists dumps 2.5 GB of data stolen from US police union

Last Thursday, UK-based researcher and activist Thomas White has made available for download 2.5 GB of data stolen in a recent hack of the computer systems of the Fraternal …

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Tails 2.0 fixes many security issues

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 …

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Consumers are increasingly concerned about privacy and they’re acting on it

More Americans are concerned about not knowing how the personal information collected about them online is used than losing their principal source of income. A new study by …

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US fast-food chain Wendy’s investigating possible card data breach

Wendy’s, the popular and widespread US fast-food chain, is investigating a possible payment card data breach. The company was notified about the possibility by its payment …

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Why cybercriminals target healthcare data

In 2015, one in three Americans were victims of healthcare data breaches, attributed to a series of large-scale attacks that each affected more than 10 million individuals. …

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cPanel notifies customers of possible user database breach

cPanel, the firm behing the popular eponymous web hosting administration and control software, has suffered a breach over the weekend. According to a notice posted online and …

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Centene Corp misplaces hard drives with sensitive info of 95,000 customers

US-based healthcare service provider Centene somehow managed to lose six hard drives containing sensitive data of some 95,000 customers. “Centene has determined the hard …

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How much could a cyber attack cost the HMRC?

HMRC could face compensation claims of over £13 billion if it were to lose people’s personal and financial data as a result of a cyber attack, according to a new study by …

Phishing email leads to data breach at University of Virginia

Personally identifiable and financial information of some 1,400 University of Virginia employees has been compromised by attackers in a breach that dates back to early …

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Netflix confirms it will start blocking proxies and unblockers

Netflix recently expanded its streaming services to nearly every country in the world. This good news for potential users in those countries has dampened the spirits of those …

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OpenWPM: An automated, open source framework for measuring web privacy

Among the speakers at the first ever Privacy Con, organized by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and held last Thursday in Washington, DC, was Steven Englehard, a Ph.D. …

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250 Hyatt hotels around the world hit with PoS malware

In late December, the Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced that they found malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations, but …

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