Data loss
Traveling to a conference? 8 security tips to keep top of mind
Conference season 2013 is on. While events like these can be great for networking and mindsharing, there can be computer security dangers lurking about. We've pulled together 8 IT security tips to help you stay ahead of the game.
China blamed for EADS and ThyssenKrupp hack attacks
EADS, maker of the Eurofighter, says that Chinese hackers attacked its computer network last year.
Is your company prepared reducing the likelihood of a successful targeted attack?
Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
Account takeovers are down a mammoth 99.7% compared with what they were at the height of the spear-phishing plague of 2011, the company (rightfully) brags.
Do not relax: such success doesn't let us users off the hook when it comes to account security beef-up.
Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
More Mac malware attacking minority groups in China
A targeted Mac malware attack strikes a minority group in China, exploiting an old Microsoft Word vulnerability.
Jawbone accounts compromised by hackers - personal info accessed, passwords disabled
Jawbone, makers of Bluetooth headsets, fitness bracelets, and neat Jambox portable speakers, has warned that hackers managed to break into its systems, and accessed the names, email addresses and encrypted passwords of users.
US Federal Reserve confirms it was hacked during the Super Bowl
An internal Federal Reserve site was hacked on Sunday. The personal details on 4,000 US bankers were exposed.
Questions and answers about the Twitter hack
Everything you need to know about the Twitter hack, and how you should respond to it - in simple English.
Twitter hacked, at least 250,000 users affected: what you can do to protect yourself
Twitter is the latest web property to admit that intruders seem to have been wandering around its network for some time.
Paul Ducklin investigates and offers some advice on what to do next...
Anatomy of a phish - how crooks hack legitimate websites to steal your details
Are you a "safe surfer"?
What about sites that were perfectly good yesterday, but today are serving phishing pages for the crooks?
Paul Ducklin takes you on a four-country phishing trip...
Sony fined £250,000 after hackers gained access to millions of gamers' details
"There’s no disguising that this is a business that should have known better," says ICO director.
How many headlines do there have to be before companies take data security more seriously?
Computer science student first praised, then expelled for poking around
Within two days of finding and reporting a hole in the college's student portal that would have given out personal info of more than 250K students, the student's subsequent scans incurred the college's wrath.
Were they right to expel him?
1 "terrific employee" + 1 thumb drive + 6,000 lost medical records = fired!
A woman called a "terrific employee" by her boss was fired after downloading 6,000 medical records onto a USB drive that she then lost. Whose fault is it, really? Perhaps if the company had technology in place to prevent the transmission of unencrypted records onto a USB device, the lamentable event wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Boutique babycare website hack - not just the Big Guys at risk
Even if you run a tiny website and don't have much to hide, you (and your customers) are nevertheless at risk from criminals.
For example, @JokerCracker, who openly gives his reason for hacking as, "It's just a personal challenge".
OKCupid app, Crazy Blind Date, peeks into your privates
A bug in OKCupid's recently released Crazy Blind Date application allowed complete strangers to paw at users' data.
Medical group fined $140K for tossing patients' health records into public dump
Medical diagnoses for cancer patients, names and Social Security numbers all went into the trash, unredacted and unshredded, probably in a very misguided effort to save a few bucks on proper record destruction.
Canada Student Loans borrowers in giant data breach - 583,000 records gone
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has admitted that the personal information of more than 500,000 student borrowers has gone missing, lost on an unencrypted removable hard disk.
Ouch! Haven't we learned to encrypt our customers' data yet?
Report: 94% of US hospitals suffered data breaches, and 45% had quintuplets
Competent healthcare providers are great at medical things.
Securing electronic devices or health records? Not so much, the Ponemon Institute finds.
Monday review - the hot 18 stories of the week
Here you go.
All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
Internet Explorer flaw allows attackers to track your mouse movements
An Internet Explorer vulnerability allows hackers to track mouse cursor movement anywhere on the screen, even if a given window is inactive, unfocused or minimised. It can also compromise the security of virtual keyboards and keypads, thereby thwarting their use against keyloggers.
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