A Brazilian security researcher set up an experiment to prove that he can get anyone to accept a Facebook friend request in a matter of hours, showing how privacy is still a major issue when it comes to social networking website.
According to Psyzone, …
Cybercrime is now the third biggest crime problem experienced by UK businesses behind only asset theft and accounting fraud, the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Global Economic Crime Survey has found.
Nearly half of the 178 middle and senior managers in p…
IT security woes at WikiLeaks have led to the organisation delaying the launch of a system intended to protect whistleblowers submitting sensitive information.
A month after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the organisation was facing critical fin…
Hackers continue to launch attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Oracle’s Java software in record numbers, Microsoft announced earlier this week.
Citing research from a recent report, Tim Rains, a director in the company’s Trustworthy Computing group, …
A UN department has been hacked, but officials say the data stolen was out of date.
The hack saw 100 passwords and logins taken from a UN Development Programme (UNDP) server and leaked online.
“The UNDP found [the] compromised server and took it offlin…
After angering users with one privacy misstep after another, Facebook yesterday settled charges by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it had deceived users and shared information it had told them would be private.
Now users and industry analy…
Google security researchers Ben Laurie and Adam Langley propose a new way in which digital certificates are issued and verified, to make sure that situations in which CAs issue them unknowingly will become rare or even inexistent.
In a paper called “…
Millions of HP LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause the devices to overheat and catch fire.
Printers from other vendors likely …
Compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) information security regulations are deterring many healthcare organizations from adopting cloud computing, noted Mike Murphy, vice president of technology operations at health…
Still in rough development, a new extension for Google Chrome puts in your hands a useful power tool for separating your data from Facebook apps of dubious origin. Called OOptOut (download), the add-on by Chad Selph helpfully lists above the Facebook h…
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