Privacy takes center stage
AnchorFree anticipates digital privacy, security and access concerns will escalate in 2014 as the following consumer trends take shape. Shift to private and erasable social …
Privacy advocates announce day of protest against NSA spying
A broad coalition of activist groups, companies, and online platforms will hold a worldwide day of activism in opposition to the NSA’s mass spying regime on February …
Neiman Marcus, three other US retailers breached
In the wake of the revelations that US retail giant Target has been targeted by cyber thieves comes the news that American luxury department store Neiman Marcus has also …
Personal info of 70 million Target customers compromised
Target today announced updates on its continuing investigation into the recent data breach. As part of Target’s ongoing forensic investigation, it has been determined …
EU committee asks Snowden to testify via video link
With an overwhelming vote of 36-to-2 (plus one abstention), the members of the European Parliament’s Justice and Civil Liberties Committee have decided to extend an …
Fear of data sharing on the rise
U.S. consumer attitudes and behavior related both to data sharing and social media oversharing have shifted significantly just within the last two years, according to a new …
What healthcare security and privacy pros wish for
2013 proved to be a dizzying year for healthcare compliance, privacy, and information security: the Affordable Care Act, enforcement of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule, and …
Multi-protocol SoftEther VPN becomes open source
In March 2013, a Japanese student by the name of Daiyuu Nobori set up VPN Gate, a free VPN service that he hoped would be used by Internet users who wish to avoid their …
4.6M Snapchat users’ info compromised in breach
It took just a week for someone to take advantage of the full disclosure of several (at the time) unpatched Snapchat vulnerabilities, and the result is a published list of 4.6 …
How have consumer attitudes changed towards data security?
Over the last few years, data has become non-exclusive; with the information consumers create and leave behind now the stuff of headlines and documentaries. From swiping a …
BitTorrent introduces secure, serverless messaging system
Back in September, the company behind the BitTorrent P2P protocol and the BitTorrent and μTorrent file-sharing software announced that they have started working on …
MacBook webcam indicator light can be disabled to aid spying
Two researchers from Johns Hopkins University have proved, without a doubt, that it is possible to activate internal iSight webcams included in some legacy Apple machines …