Some videoconferencing equipment could enable hackers to eavesdrop on privileged corporate conversations or a boring employee training seminar, according to a security official at Rapid7.
03 February 2012
Microsoft is a myth maker when it comes to Google’s new privacy policy, the search giant is charging.
03 February 2012
Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue told a House panel this week that he had a relative and a friend declared “dead” on his agency’s death list, which publishes the names and social security numbers of deceased individuals, even though they were very much alive.
03 February 2012
The total number of patient records compromised in the US increased by 97% in 2011 compared with 2010, according to a report released this week by the Redspin consulting firm.
03 February 2012
Prison inmates in Maryland had access to social security numbers of patients who received treatment under the state’s Medicaid program, according to a recent state audit.
01 February 2012
Ernst & Young, auditors of Regions Financial Corp., lost personal information on current and former Regions’ employees when a flash drive with the data sent in the mail was stolen.
01 February 2012
A new Forrester report, the Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Controlling Big Data, seeks to help business understand the risks inherent in Big Data, and how to handle them.
01 February 2012
The FBI likely employed its CIPAV spyware to eavesdrop on Kim Dotcom and other managers of MegaUpload, according to a report by CNET.
31 January 2012
Scammers are using supposed tax refunds from the Australian Taxation Office as way to scam Australian taxpayers.
31 January 2012
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) secretly monitored the private emails of staff scientists and doctors who complained to Congress that the agency was approving dangerous medical devices for public use, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the staff members.
31 January 2012