Are you a Rolling Stones fan? Lots of people are, and with gigs on the 2014 tour selling out in hours, you can see why free tickets might seem worth checking out. But not all “special offer” sites are made alike, as Paul Ducklin explains…
Tag Archives: Data loss
Bitly breached, gives (shortened) details to customers on blog
Popular URL shortener Bitly is the latest cloud service to say, “Er, looks like crooks have been wandering around in our network.” Paul Ducklin tries to make sense of Bitly’s breach notification blog…
Snapchat agrees to settlement with FTC over privacy complaints
Snapchat and the FTC have come to terms in a settlement over the privacy practices of the controversial mobile message service company. Will Snapchat be better at protecting user privacy now that it’s required to be monitored by a privacy auditor for the next 20 years?
Orange bitten by data breach, leaks personal data from promotional messaging server
Current reports put the size of Orange’s latest data breach at 1,300,000 records. It seems that the data wasn’t stolen from one of Orange’s primary databases, but from an ancillary system used for sending promotional emails and SMSes.
Stolen phone snaps selfie of mystery man who entered wrong PIN
Could be the thief, could be an innocent guy who just happened to pick up a stray mobile phone – hard to say! That’s why police in Essex, UK, are keen to have a chat with him. 
SSCC 146 – Target, Microsoft, Dropbox and the mysterious “Webdriver Torso” [PODCAST]
Have a listen to the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin look at what we can learn from the latest news.
Apple admits flaw in email attachment encryption on iPhones and iPads
Apple is under pressure once again to patch a security flaw in iOS 7, after a researcher published his discovery that email attachments are unencrypted on iPhones and iPads. Here’s why this is a big deal, and what you can do to stay protected.
Can we trust anyone with our personal info?
Two very different criminal cases have just concluded on opposite sides of the Atlantic, showing how vulnerable our personal information is. John Hawes explains why it’s not just the Target-type megabreaches that are cause for concern…
Target CEO resigns, latest executive fallout from card breach
Target’s CEO resigned earlier today, which may not come as a surprise to most. The bigger question is, have America’s executives learned the correct lesson from Target’s mistakes?
Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.