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Here's a good one, according to The Guardian newspaper in the UK, the incomes of each and every single Italian citizen were published for each and every other Italian citizen to see on the web. Rather than being some terrible data breach, or the work of some sinister hacker, it appears that it was...
Read More | 11 Days Ago
Bruce Schneier is a security legend, and posts like this one go a long way to proving just why. In this Wired commentary Schneier gives the best explanation I have seen as to why the ‘transparent society’ argument is a myth, why it is not better than privacy but rather equates to no privacy at...
Read More | Mar 10th, 2008
It doesn’t really matter where you live in the world, the chances are that your country has been hit by some high profile data loss scandal during the course of the last year or so. Everything from retail operations such as TJ Maxx losing the odd 40 million or so customer credit card details to a...
Read More | Jan 18th, 2008
Many years ago, during a press visit to Microsoft HQ in Seattle, I was given relative freedom to wander around the Redmond campus. Of course, there were some areas that were strictly out of bounds. Areas like the one which was entered via the 'Cryogenics Lab' door for example. At the time I thought...
Read More | Jan 17th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Feb 12th, 2008
A recent study on the privacy rankings of big internet search engine providers reveals that Google might have some ‘splainin to do, especially if Congress gets its way. In the process, its proposed merger/buyout with Doubleclick might be in trouble.
First, Google’s privacy problems, as defined...
Read More | Dec 12th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Dec 13th, 2007
Nochex has been providing secure online payment services to small and medium businesses in the UK ever since 2001. It seems to take security seriously, as anyone dealing with your money should, with encrypted data transfers, encrypted data storage and servers at the same highly secure location as...
Read More | Dec 11th, 2007
A Symantec Security Response posting suggests that Monster.com, the huge job hunting website, has been subject to an online attack resulting in the theft of personal data in the form of resumes of its users.
"We analyzed a sample of a new Trojan, called Infostealer.Monstres, which was attempting...
Read More | Aug 22nd, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Aug 22nd, 2007
Privacy International has accused Google of embarking upon a smear campaign within the media to discredit both PI and a report, to be published in full later in the year, which ranks the privacy performance of the top Internet service companies. The interim results which were published on the 9th...
Read More | Jun 10th, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 14th, 2007
During the course of this week there have been numerous reports floating around, mainly online and mainly pretty devoid of any real substance, claiming that the popular anonymous browsing solution Tor has been cracked. In fact, what these reports should have been reporting is the fact that...
Read More | Mar 3rd, 2007
Since writing here about the release of a new 'privacy preserving web browser', I have now had a chance to test Browzar for myself and can make the following additional comments:
I do not buy the 'Browzar is adware' comments that have been doing the rounds of the blogosphere, at least it's not...
Read More | Sep 10th, 2006
