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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Success of the Internet of Things depends on privacy and security
Even as the Internet of Things (IoT) creates new usages, systems and ways to manage and store data, there is a parallel need for impermeable privacy policies and protection …
Cheap web cams can open permanent, difficult-to-spot backdoors into networks
They might seems small and relatively insignificant, but cheap wireless web cams deployed in houses and offices (and connected to home and office networks) might just be the …
CWA hackers breached US DNI Clapper’s email, broadband account
Crackas With Attitude (CWA), a group of hackers with a pro-Palestinian agenda, have hit another high-rank US intelligence chief. The first time around, in October 2015, it was …
Your smartwatch can give away your payment card’s PIN code
Smartwatches can be a perfectly useful and handy wearable device for some users, but it’s good to keep in mind that using them might mean opening yourself to an …
European data centre services provider Interxion suffers breach
A vulnerability present in the customer relationship management (CRM) system of Interxion, a Netherlands-based provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre …
Most IT pros oppose government backdoor access
Close to two-thirds of global IT professionals oppose giving governments backdoor access to encrypted information systems, and 59% feel that privacy is being compromised in an …
Imperfect algorithms threaten democracy
Do we want algorithms that we can’t understand or question to influence how we get to live our lives? Unfortunately, as Cathy O’Neil, well-known mathematician and …
FBI warns Time Warner Cable of potential data breach
Time Warner Cable will soon be contacting approximately 320,000 of its customers whose accounts have likely been compromised, the company’s public relations director …