There’s good and bad news about Anthem’s recent data breach. The bad news includes the risk to between 8.8M and 18M non-customers who were in Anthem’s database anyway…
Tag Archives: Privacy
How nine out of ten healthcare pages leak private data
A recent study has shown that nine out of ten visits to health-related web pages result in data being leaked to third parties like Google, Facebook and Experian. That’s not new, so why do we care now? And how does it happen in the first place?
SSCC 187 – The cryptography edition [PODCAST]
Sophos expert John Shier sits in for regular presenter Chester Wisniewski in this episode. John and Paul Ducklin dissect the latest security issues, which were dominated this week by some thorny matters of cryptography.
Koppie Koppie sells photos of your kids to prove you shouldn’t post them online
Two “privacy advocates” running an online store that sells mugs printed with pictures of children are intentionally stirring up controversy by grabbing photos from Flickr. The duo behind Koppie Koppie say it’s perfectly legal, but they hope you get mad about it anyway.
Not just celebrity nude photos, Reddit bans all “involuntary porn”
Reddit blew it with The Fappening, but a new privacy policy enables even us nobodies to request image removal.
LinkedIn settles class action suit over 2012 unsalted password leak
LinkedIn is privately settling the 2012 unsalted password leak. Were you one of the 800,000 affected users? Here’s what you need to know. 
10,000 motorists’ names and addresses published online by parking fine company
Parking fine collection firm PaymyPCN.net accidentally published a database containing 10,000 drivers’ names, addresses, photos and emails.
“PowerSpy” – can crooks really track you by the power your phone is using?
Can power usage alone, as your phone moves around in the mobile network, give away your location? Sort of, say three Stanford computer scientists…
Snapchat tells teens: Keep your clothes on!
Somebody should have told the kids whose racy snap went viral: Snapchat’s got a new Safety Center that nixes nudity and sex, at least for minors. 
How the “Great SIM Heist” could have been avoided
Apparently, intelligence services managed to penetrate the network of a major SIM card manufacturer, grab loads of SIM keys, and now we’re all liable to be listened in on. But why? What is it about SIM cards that made this possible?