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Searches on Yahoo kept in database
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Apr 19, 2011
If you go to Yahoo to search for anything (which you would do after you've already searched on Google, Bing and Blekko?), those search records will...
Online security plan announcement today
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Apr 15, 2011
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) will hold an announcement...
Privacy bill hits the house
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Apr 14, 2011
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) introduced a privacy bill on Wednesday - a day after Sens. Kerry and McCain introduced their online privacy bill. In a...
Law enforcement officials are looking at your emails
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Apr 13, 2011
Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian is out with a new paper that shows that law enforcement officials are increasingly asking for access to...
Certificate Authority infrastructure problem grows
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Apr 6, 2011
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that 37,000 certificates have been given out to unauthorized names. That means you could be subjected...
The list of companies in the Epsilon hack grows
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Apr 6, 2011
Reuters reports we can add Verizon to the list of companies whose customers' email addresses were obtained by a hacker in the recent Epsilon data...
Symantec says watch out for targeted cyber attacks
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Apr 5, 2011
Tuesday, the security company released its annual security review which finds we'll see a lot more targeted attacks in the coming year. Targeted...
Epsilon breach keeps growing
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Apr 5, 2011
Yesterday, we (and lots of news sources) talked about the massive hack that took place at Epsilon. It's a company that handles email communications...
Big data breach
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Apr 4, 2011
Reuters is calling it perhaps the biggest data breach in the U.S. EVER. It all traces back to hackers who got into client files of the company...
Child ID theft - more common than you think
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Apr 1, 2011
A research fellow at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab is out with a new report today about child identity theft. The first large report about this ever. And...
