Over 376k credit cards compromised in LoyaltyBuild breach
Ireland-based marketing company LoyaltyBuild has suffered a breach that resulted in the compromise of full card details of over 376,000 customers, and the name, address, phone …
British bank account data is under threat
Bitdefender warns that 0.5 per cent of all spam sent worldwide is targeting customers of some of the most popular British financial institutions and services, including …
Why cybercriminals want your personal data
Over the past few years, the personal data theft landscape has changed as online behaviors and activities evolve. Online shopping is more popular than ever, businesses are …
Top 12 scams of the holiday season
McAfee released its annual “12 Scams of Christmas” list to educate the public on the most common scams that criminals use during the holiday season to take …
GCHQ hacks GRX providers to mount MitM attacks on smartphone users
A new report by German Der Spiegel has revealed that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK equivalent of the US NSA, has compromised a number of Global …
IETF to improve the security of Internet protocols
Internet security has been a focus this week for the more than 1100 engineers and technologists from around the world gathered at the 88th meeting of the Internet Engineering …
European NSA is not a solution
The European Parliament should use its powers to reconsider EU-US data transfer deals and push for the creation of a European privacy cloud, EU-level protection for …
Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust
Recent events have highlighted, underlined and bolded the fact that the United States is performing blanket surveillance on any foreigner whose data passes through an American …
The Circle
The book talks about a near future where the most significant company in the world is The Circle. They don't deal in goods, but in what we all know is the real commodity of …
Apple releases cleverly framed report on government data requests
Apple has released what will be the first of many biannual reports on government information requests it receives, and has included a statement saying that “Apple has …
Can a Swiss cloud give users complete privacy?
Telecom provider Swisscom has announced its plans to set up a “Swiss cloud” that would give both Swiss and later foreign users some peace of mind regarding whether …
Malicious “Apple ID Information Updated” notification doing rounds
An unimaginative but likely relatively successful phishing campaign is targeting Apple users once again, trying to get them to share their login and financial information. The …