White Lodging confirms POS system breach at 14 US hotels
Hotel management firm White Lodging has confirmed that it has suffered a breach of point of sales systems and has released additional information about the investigation. …
Most adults share intimate info via unsecured digital devices
McAfee examined how more than 1,500 consumers are sharing and storing intimate data on their mobile devices, especially with current or former significant others. Sharing …
Personal info of 800,000 Orange customers compromised
Global telecom giant Orange has sent out alerts to nearly 800,000 (some 3 percent) of its French customers warning them that their personal information was compromised in a …
Hackers sue German government for helping NSA spy on its citizens
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), Europe’s largest hacker association, and the International League for Human Rights (ILMR) are suing the German government for allegedly …
Hotel management firm breached, card details of guests stolen
Hotel management firm White Lodging seems to have had its systems compromised and the attackers managed to exfiltrate a yet unknown quantity of credit and debit card details. …
Hackers breach Bell Canada, leak customer info and passwords
The hacker group NullCrew has managed to access servers belonging to Bell Canada – or a third-party supplier, as Bell claims – and steal and ultimately leak …
Canadian spy agency used free airport WiFi to track travelers
A new report based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will make Canadians question whether the country’s electronic spy agency does, as it claims, …
Many Android apps can track your location, access photos
An alarming proportion of Android applications can find and open private photographs on smartphones, track users’ locations, divulge e-mail addresses over the internet …
Smartphone spying: How can users protect themselves?
Smartphone users need to realise that their mobile phone is less of a phone and more of a mobile computer, in which applications can collect data from other applications …
Consumers care more about business data collection than government surveillance
TRUSTe released its latest U.S. Consumer Confidence Index, which shows that a high proportion of U.S. adults aged 18 and older are worried about their privacy online, online …
Who should be responsible for protecting your online privacy?
Just in time for Data Privacy Day, Microsoft has released the results of a survey that shows the privacy attitudes of technology savvy individuals in the US and four European …
Feds cloned TorMail server with future investigations in mind
TorMail users engaged in illegal activities might have felt more than a twinge of anxiety when it was confirmed last summer that the FBI took control of Freedom …
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