Shrink-wrap and click-wrap agreements are the fine print you see, among other things, when you click through terms and conditions in accessing an online service (e.g., in connection with a cloud computing service) or as part of the installation of a piece of software.
Michael R. Overly | 03 Aug | Read more
Soon it will be practicable to take someone's photo on a smartphone and within minutes know their Social Security number and a range of other private data like their personal interests, sexual preference and credit status, researchers will tell the Black Hat security conference this week.
Tim Greene | 02 Aug | Read more
The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) has warned that the [[xref:http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jscc/cybercrime_bill/bill.pdf| <i>Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011</i>|new]] has the potential to invade the rights of individuals and grants additional access to information by a range of agencies.
Hamish Barwick | 01 Aug | Read more
Remembering all of your passwords may not seem difficult...until you think about just how many passwords you have. One for each email account. One for each bank account. One for each shopping site. The list goes on, and on. If you want to make your life simple, you can choose the same password for every account. But if you want to keep things secure while making life simple, you need a password manager like LastPass. This free software comes in a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,77152/description.html">32-bit</a> and a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,169129/description.html">64-bit version</a>.
Liane Cassavoy | 31 Jul | Read more
The antics of groups like <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/212701/operation_payback_wikileaks_avenged_by_hacktivists.html">Anonymous</a> and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/230485/we_owe_lulzsec_a_thank_you.html">LulzSec</a> over the past few months have made data breaches seem inevitable. If information security vendors <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/220209/lessons_learned_thanks_to_hbgary_and_anonymous.html">like HBGary</a> and <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222555/rsa_securid_hack_shows_danger_of_apts.html">RSA Security</a> aren't safe, what hope does an average SMB have? It is true that there is no silver bullet, and no impervious network security, but there are a variety of things IT admins can do to prevent network breaches and protect data and privacy better.
Tony Bradley | 29 Jul | Read more
Prior to June hackers successfully breached “a series” of Australian merchants’ computers and gained customer card data, according to the Australian Federal Police.
A survey of more than 3,400 employees in the United States, Great Britain and Australia finds corporate loyalty be damned, your company's data <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/654463/wikileaks-and-the-authorized-insider-threat-">may be on its way out the door</a> when certain employees resign or get laid off.
Joan Goodchild | 27 Jul | Read more
The Tasmanian government became the victim of a hacker today when a member of the group S4t4n1c_s0uls defaced an email sent to the state's media outlets at 9am.
Stilgherrian | 21 Jul | Read more
The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) and Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have welcomed the government's announcement of a public consultation into introducing a statutory right to privacy.
Stilgherrian | 21 Jul | Read more
In the wake of the UK's News of the World voicemail scandal, the Australian government announced today that it will consult the public on legislating for a right to privacy.
Stilgherrian | 21 Jul | Read more
LulzSec's hack of News International websites including The Sun yesterday is one of the highest-profile information security breaches in history. Down went a major media company. But it means almost nothing beyond the daily news cycle.
Stilgherrian | 20 Jul | Read more
CIOs the world over who do business with US organisations do so under the shadow of the US Patriot Act.
Georgina Swan | 20 Jul | Read more
The Department of Defense says it was hit by a cyberattack by a "foreign intelligence service" that managed to pilfer 24,000 sensitive files.The attack, which occurred in March, was perpetrated by an unnamed "nation state," according to Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III. Lynn who disclosed the breach during a speech Thursday outlining the Pentagon's new cyber strategy for dealing with cyber-breaches.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 16 Jul | Read more
Hacker group Anonymous continued an assault on government contractors Monday as it released 90,0000 military email addresses, passwords and some other data from military contractor <a href="http://www.boozallen.com/consulting">Booz Allen Hamilton</a>.
Paul Suarez | 12 Jul | Read more
There's been an incredible number of records breached this year, including:
George V. Hulme | 12 Jul | Read more
Over 900 police staff have abused access to confidential databases over a four year period, according to data found through Freedom of Information requests.
For a few hours on Thursday, credit card donations once again flowed to WikiLeaks through a payment gateway at Icelandic hosting company DataCell. Then Visa shut it down again.
Peter Sayer | 08 Jul | Read more
After years of being accused of doing little to enforce Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's security and privacy rules, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services appears to be finally getting serious about cracking down on offenders.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Jul | Read more
Apple said on Thursday that it is developing a fix for vulnerabilities that affect its iPhone, iPad and some iPod touch models, a problem that the German government warned could be used to steal confidential data.
Jeremy Kirk | 08 Jul | Read more
Morgan Stanley has warned 34,000 investment clients that their personal data may have been stolen while in transit to a government tax office.
Anh Nguyen | 07 Jul | Read more