NIST asks for comments on security guide for federal information systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft update of its primary guide to assessing the security and privacy controls that …
Reactions to the Paddy Power data breach
Paddy Power is contacting 649,055 customers in relation to a data breach from 2010. The historical dataset contained individual customer’s name, username, address, email …
BitTorrent’s decentralized chat app keeps content, metadata safe
BitTorrent, the company that develops the eponymous peer-to-peer protocol and two popular clients that use it, has announced the release of Bleep, an online communication …
Free iPhone app for encrypted phone calls released
There is finally a free alternative for all iOS users who are looking to encrypt their voice calls: the app is called Signal, and has been developed by the Open Whisper …
375 million customer records compromised in 2014
Between April and June of this year, there were a total of 237 breaches that compromised more than 175 million customer records of personal and financial information …
Russian government offers money for Tor-cracking tech
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has published a tender offering $111,000 to any Russian company or organization that can provide technology that can …
What influences corporate security strategies?
Sixty eight percent of businesses stated that the NSA breach by Edward Snowden and the number of PoS system breaches in the past year were the most impactful in terms of …
Google and EU debate on implementation of “right to be forgotten”
It is, by now, widely known that European users can ask Google to “forget” sites with content these users find damaging to their reputation, but the European Court …
Critical de-anonymization 0-days found in Tails
Tails, the security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution favoured by Edward Snowden, journalists and privacy-minded users around the world, sports a number of critical …
EFF releases Firefox, Chrome plugin to stop online tracking
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising …
Metadata-hiding Dark Mail protocol soon to be reality
At the Hackers on Planet Earth X (HOPE X) conference held this weekend in New York, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called for hackers, coders and developers to “help …
TRUSTe launches new privacy assessments
TRUSTe expanded its Data Privacy Management Platform to include TRUSTed Assessments, a new privacy assessment solution which addresses the need for specialized tools to …