Hip software company Atlassian has had the hackers in. It sounds as though the outcome won’t be too bad, but it does remind you: choose a better password than everyone else!
Tag Archives: Data loss
Facebook to fill with (more!) kittens in Wickr’s message-hiding scheme
Secure messaging app Wickr has launched a timed, private photo stream that lets users upload private images to Facebook, covering them with kitten images that only user-selected people can decode. 
Dating site buys back 20 million hacked email addresses
Despite the hacker putting the email addresses up for sale, the undisclosed sum is apparently not ransom, it’s an “award”, says hacked site Topface.
Cop who stole nude photos from arrested women’s seized phones escapes jail
Sean Harrington pleaded no contest to felony charges related to secretly forwarding suspects’ photos to his and other officers’ phones. 
SSCC 183 – It’s Data Privacy Day! Do something! [PODCAST]
From Apple’s latest OS X and iOS updates to Data Privacy Day – listen, learn and enjoy!
Psychological profile-based security – could it work?
Fujitsu’s working on technology that can assign security countermeasures based on a user’s psychological profile and risk tendencies – warning them ahead of time, before an attack can be carried out successfully.
Anonymous journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in jail
Barrett Brown has been sentenced to 63 months in prison on charges related to the Stratfor hack.
Fake Facebook account case settled with DEA who admits no wrongdoing
The Feds have agreed to pay $134,000 to settle a case over having taken a phony Facebook profile out to lure suspects. Nothing in the ruling prohibits future use of such deceptive tactics. 
SSCC 182 – What would the Pirate Party do? [PODCAST]
This week’s episode of our quarter-hour security podcast. Entertaining as well as accurate and educational – why not give it a listen?
Leaked Minecraft usernames and passwords – a storm in a security teacup?
The blocky online building environment is attracting press because about 1800 Minecraft credentials (worth about $27 USD each) have been leaked on Pastebin.