privacy

When late last year Facebook changed its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy, the social network’s users lost their right to vote on future …

ThreatMetrix has identified the top precautions taxpayers should take when e-filing to protect their returns against cybercriminals. According to Forbes, more than 80 percent …

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Sony £250,000 for failing to adequately protect UK gamers’ personal and possibly even financial information …

Microsoft released new data reflecting consumers’ perceptions about how their information is used online and a new series of short videos to help people better manage …

A Twitter bug allowed third-party applications to access Direct Messages of users who signed in to the apps by using their Twitter account, reported IOActive researcher Cesar …

Passwords are on the way out, it seems. With current boom – and obvious success – of phishing, it’s time to see what could be a better alternative to this …

Android users are once again in danger of getting their information collected and being hit by an unending stream of spam and unwelcome offers just because they searched for …

While Facebook’s newly announced graph search capability is awesome for people who like social networking, it also provides criminals with another source of information …

Researchers have unearthed a new type of phishing kit that allows crooks to target specific users and keep away others in order to keep the scheme hidden from knowing eyes and …

The news that well-known Web activist and developer Aaron Swartz took his own life on Friday resounded across the Internet at an amazing speed during this past weekend. Many …

Recurring data breaches over the past five years have undermined public trust in the ability of both private firms and Government organisations to safeguard personal …

Kroll Ontrack launched Ontrack Eraser 4.0, an enterprise data eraser solution, complete with expanded drive wiping capacity, VMware eraser capabilities and new reporting and …