IDG News Service - Microsoft on Friday said it has fully restored its Xbox Live service after problems prevented an undetermined number of users from logging into the online gaming service. At 4:28 p.m. Eastern Time, Microsoft's Xbox ...
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IDG News Service-An information breach at a Florida college has compromised information of about 279,000 students and employees,the Florida Department of Education said on Wednesday. In a statement earlier on Monday,Northwest Florida ...
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Infoworld-Network and endpoint security may not strike you as the first place to scratch an experimental itch.After all,protecting the company's systems and data should call into question any action that may introduce risk.But IT security ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)claims to be about helping organisations to do the right thing,yet it punishes organisations that report breaches.But does this make sense?Is this really a good policy? The best-known case is the ...
SECAUCUS, NJ, June 14, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- OrangeHRM Inc. a global leader in HRIS development for small and medium-sized enterprises worldwide, launched OrangeAM (Absence Management System) with improved and sophisticated leave ...
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Delta Air Lines quickly published a privacy policy for its mobile application on Friday after the company was sued by California's attorney general, but a privacy researcher has already found a fault with it and the app. Ashkan Soltani, ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said it had updated rules requiring online services to obtain consent from parents if they are aimed at children under 13 or know that they are collecting personal information from young children. But FTC ...
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A Cisco Linksys router update which connected customers' routers to its Connect Cloud service without their knowledge and the company's licensing terms around user data has recharged privacy and security concerns surrounding cloud services. ...
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Cyber crime has continued to become more professional in 2012, with the barriers to entry becoming ever lower with the emergence of increasingly powerful toolkits and exploits for sale online. In the past year, cyber criminals have used ...
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The government's controversial Draft Communications Data Bill, which aims to allow unparalleled interception of data about UK citizens' online communications and voice calls, needs to go back to the drawing board, according to Deputy Prime ...
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China has enforced tighter controls of the internet which includes forcing individuals to fully identify themselves to service providers and legalising the deletion of ''illegal'' posts or pages. According to the BBC, the move has been ...
Payment service provider AP Solutions introduces PagosBancarios to their lineup of global payment solutions. PagosBancarios allows consumers to use their own bank account to pay online for goods and services at merchants worldwide, with ...
Free mobile apps pose a serious threat to privacy because of their ability to capture large amounts of user information, a study has revealed. Free mobile applications are 401% more likely to track user location and 314% more likely to ...
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Hacking group Anonymous claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group indicated that the action was part of is AntiSec (Anti Security) campaign to ...
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Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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