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Tag Archives: data leakage
Ghostery’s goofy GDPR gaffe – someone’s in trouble come Monday!
Ever CCed an email you were supposed to BCC? Sure you have! But we bet it wasn’t your company’s “look how good we are at GDPR” email…
The EFAIL vulnerability – why it’s OK to keep on using email
The EFAIL bug shows how to trick some mail clients into turning the email encryption tools S/MIME and OpenPGP against themselves.
IBM bans USB drives – but will it work?
Can you blindly ban all USB drives, or will it lead to “shadow IT” where staff use them anyway? Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar has his say…
Twitter admits to password storage blunder – change your password now!
Twitter has been storing your password safely in its database – but not in its logs, where it’s been writing plaintext passwords by mistake.
How to check if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica
Here’s how to find out whether you or your friends shared personal data with controversial data-harvesting company Cambridge Analytica
Selfies, sharks…and yet another lock screen bug [Chet Chat Podcast 216]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Enjoy the latest episode of our weekly podcast!
What part of “Prohibited” don’t you understand? 60 Second Security
Enjoy the latest episode of our weekly 1-minute video – short and sweet security!
Encrypt like everyone’s watching! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
There’s a Sophos T-shirt that warns you, “Dance like nobody’s watching. Encrypt like everyone is.” We aren’t kidding, folks, and this week’s 60 Second Security tells you why!
Google forgets one little “Yes/No” setting, leaks private WHOIS data
Even Google can make data leakage mistakes, as network security expert group Talos recently noticed. Just one tiny little Yes/No setting that went wrong…