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Do organizations care about data protection?

Most consumers just don’t believe that the personal and financial data they submit to corporations is safe. That’s the unmistakable takeaway from a new snap poll …

Google Glass offers additional security to ATM users

Taking photos with a wink, checking one’s calendar with a glance of the right eye, reading text messages — the multinational cooperation Google wants to make it …

Over 162,000 WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack

DNS and NTP servers are not the only publicly accessible resources that can be misused to amplify DDoS attacks. Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid revealed details of a recent incident in …

Criminals rush to exploit IE 0-day before the announced fix

Last week Microsoft has announced that today’s Patch Tuesday will include a fix for the critical IE zero-day vulnerability that was found exploited in watering hole …

Reestablishing trust in the Internet

“The next phase of the internet will be data-centred and connectivity driven. Cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things; tools which support manufacturing, …

Without security, clouds can’t reign

A PerspecSys study, conducted on the show floor of RSA Conference 2014, polled 130 security professionals about their organizations’ policies and attitudes as they …

Pinterest publishes its first transparency report

Pinterest has joined the ranks of Internet companies who publish a bi-annual transparency report by issuing one covering the six months from July to December 2013. …

Fraudulent tax returns net nearly $4 billion for cybercriminals

ThreatMetrix announced the risks consumers face during tax season and strategies to protect taxpayer identities, especially when filing online returns. Of all potentially …

Video: Edward Snowden on privacy and technology

Edward Snowden speaks about privacy and technology with the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian at SXSW Interactive.

50,000 Statista users affected by data breach

Customers of the biggest online statistics portal Statista are being notified that the company’s systems have been breached and the hackers likely made away with its …

Malware peddlers are trying out different exploit kits

Websense researchers have been following several recent email spam campaigns targeting users of popular services such as Skype and Evernote, and believe them to be initiated …

Hackers dox Mt. Gox CEO, say they have proof of fraud

News about what actually happened in the days leading up to the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange filing for bankruptcy are few and far between, and some of its customers are losing …

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