Should you write instructions that tell everyone how to hack Instagram accounts, including advice like “wait for someone to use the Instagram iOS app”? Have your say in our poll…
Tag Archives: Privacy
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.
Panopticlick reveals the cookie you can’t delete
You know about cookies, and how to delete them, but what if there was a cookie you couldn’t delete, and what if the steps you took to guard your privacy made you easier to track? The EFF’s Panopticlick tool determines how easy you are to identify based on your web browser’s ‘fingerprint’.
Sony offers games as part of $15m Playstation Network breach settlement
Sony has offered gamers digital goods as part of a $15m settlement in the 2011 PlayStation Network (PSN) data breach case.
Cat stalker knows where your kitty lives (and it’s your fault)
Professor Owen Mundy has mapped a million cats’ locations on to a world map in a purrfect illustration of the extent of the data that’s publicly available from photo-sharing sites. He isn’t even a cat person. He could just have easily called the project “I know where your kid sleeps”.
Google given 18 months to change its handling of user data
The Italian Data Protection Commissioner has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data.
Your Gmail account is fair game for cops or feds, says US judge
A New York court on Thursday opened up our entire Gmail accounts to feds or cops with warrants, in spite of two recent decisions that went against similar requests. 
New search engine Indexeus unmasks malicious hackers
Indexeus is a database of stolen names and passwords, many doxed from the hackers who’ve themselves doxed others’ data. Is it poetic justice, exploitation of a lucrative market, a prototype of an educational tool, or all of the above?
Which web browser do you trust the most? [POLL]
The web browser could be considered the most important piece of software we use on a daily basis, which is why a relationship of trust comes into play – we rely on our browser to secure our communications, data and privacy. So, take our poll, and tell us which browser you trust the most …