Kids’ apps and websites set for scrutiny by ICO and other privacy watchdogs

The ICO and other global watchdogs are to examine kids’ apps and websites to ensure compliance with data protection laws.

Security must come first! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security. News you can learn from, in just one minute…

SSCC 158 – What do you mean, “Don’t knit your own remote authentication?” [PODCAST]

Here’s this week’s Chet Chat security podcast for your listening pleasure. Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos dissect the week’s security news to see what we can learn from other people’s mistakes…

1,000,000 lost credit cards = £150,000 fine

A UK travel company has been fined £150,000 for putting an “internal only” parking database system on the internet without securing it first. The vulnerable system was used as a stepping stone for a crook to steal more than 1M e-commerce records.

Did Facebook’s emotion experiment break the law? ICO probes

Did Facebook’s emotional manipulation study break data protection laws? The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office is to investigate the experiment, which caused outrage after it manipulated the feeds of close to 700,000 users to determine how they reacted to positive or negative news.