Controversial taxi firm Uber accidentally exposed the personal details of hundreds of its drivers on Tuesday following the introduction of its new “Uber Partner” app.
Tag Archives: Data loss
Can we really trust the browser padlock? Fake banking sites given TLS certificates
Banks, Paypal and Apple: type in the URLs wrong, and you may wind up at a typosquatter’s URL.
China arrests hackers to appease US on cyberespionage
Ahead of a landmark agreement between the US and China over cyberespionage, Chinese authorities arrested several hackers sought by the US.
California nixes warrantless search of digital data
California police will no longer be able to get their hands on phone or other digital data about users without a warrant.
Apple excommunicates adblockers that could access users’ private data
Apple’s blocked apps that installed root certificates that could have allowed them to see all of a users’ web traffic.
Lyft: It wasn’t our CTO who cracked Uber’s database
Uber’s sleuthing didn’t reveal the hand of Lyft’s CTO in the cookie jar, but an unidentified party at his IP address allegedly eyed the key.
“I will not knit my own cryptography!” 60 Second Security
Watch this week’s episode of our upbeat 1-minute security news video…
Dont fall for phishing and spear-phishing – stay #CyberAware!
If a phisher, or spear-phisher, gets in your face, then YOU become the primary line of defence. Here’s how to fight the good fight…
What you sound like after a data breach
Hopefully you’ve never had anything stolen in a data breach, but if you have I hope you’ve been spared the salted wound of the non-apology. There are notable exceptions of course but as data leaks and network breaches get larger, Read more…
Are you (inadvertently) selling your personal data on eBay?
We might well think we’re properly erasing data from gadgets before we sell them or dump them, but in fact we’re leaving smears of personal data lingering that can lead to identity theft. 