data loss
Webhosting management company cPanel suffers break-in, lets slip customers' root passwords
Webhosting management company cPanel recently announced a worrying sort of compromise: the possible theft of its customers' root passwords.
Paul Ducklin looks at what happened, and what's being done to avoid a repeat of this worrying situation...
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.
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?
Cracked passwords from the alleged 'Egyptian hacker' Adobe breach
An allegedly Egyptian hacker going by the name ViruS_HimA has allegedly hacked into Adobe.
Wherever the data actually comes from, it reveals yet more poor password hygiene at both the client and the server...find out just how bad.
Flashing on the Queen's highway can reveal your identity - a cautionary tale
How cautious are you about identity theft? Are you a flasher or a hider?
Here's Sam's cautionary tale...
Beware dodgy computer repair work - your data is at risk along with your wallet
Passing off old as new is dishonest in any industry - but it's more dangerous in some than in others.
Hard disks may not wear out like chainsaw blades or cam belts - it's not what they may have lost in their life so far, but in what they have gained: other people's data.
Public-access kiosk SNAFU gives public access to intimate personal information
Kiwi journalist Keith Ng wrote over the weekend about his experiences with kiosk computers at a New Zealand government department.
Ng's experience was both dramatic and worrying. He was able to access far, far too much.
RoMOS - Russia rolls its own secure tablet because it doesn't trust Google Android
Increasingly concerned about its reliance on Western mobile technologies and data networks, the Russian government this week announced that a government sponsored project has produced a secure tablet for use by state industries and government officials.
Cancer Care Group leaves unencrypted server backups in car, loses data on 55,000 patients and staff
Indiana-based Cancer Care Group has lost server backups with data on 55,000 patients and staff from a parked car.
We have to ask, "Why would anyone, ever, leave an unencrypted laptop unattended in a car?"
Yahoo Voices hacked, nearly half a million emails and passwords stolen
Yahoo Voices suffers a serious security breach, with over 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords posted online by hackers.
US Senate proposes national data breach notification act
A new bill has been brought before the US Senate that would unify data breach notification laws across the United States. Read on for what's protected and how it would work.
Backups are good - but don't forget to check your backups work [VIDEO]
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The "Toy Story 2" movie was nearly lost forever because of failing backup software.
Watch the video to find out the story, and how the classic animated movie was recovered.
London Marathon website goof leaks 38,000 contact details
The home addresses and personal email details of some 38,000 participants in Sunday's London Marathon were exposed for anyone to access on the race's official website.
Celebrities were amongst those who had their private details exposed by the glitch.
Games developer Rockyou fined $250K for not securely storing customer data
Rockyou were fined by the FTC for storing customer data in plain text. 32 million login details were stolen and published on the web. What can the rest of us learn from this?
Corrupt call center workers selling your private information for pennies
An undercover investigation in India has uncovered that some call center workers have been selling confidential information on nearly 500,000 Britons.
Digital Playground porn passwords exposed by hackers
A hacking group calling itself The Consortium claims to have stolen the details of more than 70,000 users of the Digital Playground porn website.
Cloud storage data risks and encryption
Are you encrypting the data you keep in the cloud? Or are you trusting the cloud storage providers to do a decent job at security?
350,000 users exposed by hardcore porn hack
A hacker claims to have stolen information from 350,000 users of Brazzers, a hardcore production company based in North America, to highlight a security vulnerability.
Encrypted? Check. Strong passphrase? Check. Mailing them together? Oops.
Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.
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