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…
Tag Archives: Privacy
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.
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.
87 arrested in the Philippines in bust of sextortion ring
Three men, out of some 87 arrested, are allegedly behind the blackmailing of Daniel Perry, a 17-year-old Scottish boy who killed himself last year. 
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.
‘Moves’ fitness app races to change privacy policy after Facebook acquisition
Within 11 days of the acquisition announcement, the app changed its tune, from “we won’t commingle data” to “we won’t commingle but we *will* share.” Befuddling semantics or what? 
Dropbox stumbles over security and privacy of secret links
Another flaw in Dropbox was discovered this week. Users sharing documents using a secret link may have inadvertently been sharing the secret link with sites they linked to from shared files.
Tweet “#MansionParty,” get one #SpectacularlyTrashedMansion
It was supposed to be a smallish gathering of about 60. #Oops. 
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?