privacy

Several computers in the University of Illinois Computer Science Department have apparently been compromised to host malware-serving websites, security researcher Conrad …

Experian announced Precise IDSM Personal Protection Alerts, a product that notifies individuals in real time that their personal information is being used in an authentication …

2013 seems the be the year of 2-factor (or 2-step) authentication. Following the introduction of the feature by the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and WordPress, Evernote …

The server hosting the official website of Drupal, the popular content management platform, has been compromised and sensitive user data was accessed by the attackers, the …

In this day and age when everything moves from client computers to the cloud, a number of companies started providing online password management services. I recently attended …

U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees have begun receiving notifications about a vulnerability that has inadvertently made their personal information potentially …

Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps …

The issue addresses last week by The H and their associates at heise Security of whether or not Microsoft checks links contained in encrypted Skype chat sessions and their …

Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department, has been arrested on Tuesday for computer hacking crimes. According to the complaint unsealed in Manhattan …

Last week’s revelation that the U.S. DOJ has successfully subpoenaed two months’ worth of telephone toll records for phones of AP journalist has created quite an …

When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers got their hands on some …

Members of the U.S. Congress’ Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus have sent an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page, questioning the company’s privacy consideration when it …