System monitoring company Datadog suffers breach
The team behind Datadog, a widely used SaaS-based monitoring and analytics platform for IT infrastructure, operations and development teams, has announced on Friday that they …
Secret Conversations: End-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger
After integrating Open Whisper Systems’ Signal Protocol into WhatsApp earlier this year, Facebook has done the same to the Facebook Messenger app, and called the feature …
Confusion reigns around data protection requirements
Confusion reigns among UK businesses around data protection requirements, according to Delphix. From June 2018, any business that offers goods and services to the EU or …
New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms
An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass …
World-Check crime and terror database exposed online
Security researcher Chris Vickery, who has become well-known for unearthing databases that should not be accessible via the Internet but are, has found another one that …
Most used drives sold on eBay hold personal information
Ecommerce sites are reselling used electronics without permanently erasing data from them. Based on an analysis of 200 second-hand hard disk drives and solid state drives …
Privacy pitfalls of Facebook using your location to suggest friends
If you are a Facebook user and you haven’t guessed by now that it will sometimes suggest “friends” based on the fact that you happened to be at the same …
14 bugs in Uber’s assets revealed sensitive info about drivers, riders
Researchers from consulting and technological audit outfit Integrity have discovered 14 bugs in a variety of Uber’s websites and mobile apps, most of which could reveal …
US Customs wants to know travelers’ social media account names
The US Customs and Border Protection agency has submitted a request to the Office of Management and Budget, asking for permission to collect travelers social media account …
Cloud security and data privacy laws
In this podcast recorded at Infosecurity Europe 2016, Willy Leichter, VP of Cloud Security at CipherCloud, talks about issues around cloud security and data privacy laws, and …
FBI doesn’t need a warrant to hack a suspect’s computer, US judge rules
A senior US district judge has decided that the warrant authorizing the search of a suspect’s home computer by the FBI was issued based of probable cause, but even if it …
How MDM software exposes your personal data
Bitglass tracked the personal mobile devices of several willing employee volunteers with mobile device management (MDM) software to understand how MDM could be misused and to …
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