More than 1,500 credentials for PayPal accounts are on sale in an eShop-style website set up by cybercriminals. The site, discovered by Webroot's Danco Danchev, is selling 1,543 PayPal account details, 14 of which belong to UK customers ...
Tags: cybercriminals, eShop-style website, PayPal
A lack of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband in the UK and abroad is holding back the video games industry, according to the president and CEO of Eidos, Ian Livingstone. In an exclusive interview at the FTTH Council's Conference 2013, ...
Tags: fibre, Games Industry, video games industry
Europe is planning a co-ordinated response to Google’s data collection practices, says the Wall Street Journal. The French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et de Libertes (CNIL) says it, and other European privacy ...
Tags: Europe, Google, co-ordinated response
European privacy authorities have threatened action before the Summer to curb Google's collection, combination and storage of its users' personal information, after growing impatient with the company's failure to respond to their criticisms ...
The UK and India are expected to strike a deal to become trusted partners in the growing battle against cyber criminals and nation states, prime minister David Cameron has said. Reuters reports that the UK hopes that by setting up a joint ...
CBR talked with Chris Mathews, CTO at SysMech about the European Commission's proposal to give consumers the right to be forgotten online and how it will affect any company that deals with data. The European Commission's proposal to allow ...
Tags: data industry, internet, Google
European privacy authorities have threatened action before the Summer to curb Google’s collection, combination and storage of its users’ personal information. The E.U. has apparently grown impatient with the company’s ...
Tags: EU, Google, Privacy Policy Action
MyPourPal, LLC has launched what is expected to be one of the beverage world's hottest apps: MyPourPal , Linking Bartenders to Their Regulars. This "first of its type" app creates a social link between bartenders and their regular ...
Tags: MyPourPal, apps, social network
WISeID Social app and its website WISeID.com have provided encryption services for Facebook walls since 2010. Now WISeID Social can also encrypt Google+ wall postings, SMS and tweets, allowing privacy over any communication service, even ...
Tags: WISeID Social app, encryption service, Facebook walls, social networks
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has been fined £150,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Three DVDs containing confidential information about two children went missing during ...
Tags: Data Protection Act, Nursing and Midwifery Council, ICO
Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said. Groups opposed ...
A recent push in the IT industry to collect and monetize big data is headed for a clash with privacy concerns from Internet users and potential regulation from some governments, according to tech analyst firm Ovum. Internet advertising ...
Tags: IT industry, privacy concerns, networks
Children as young as 11 years old are developing malicious code to steal personal information from online gamers, according to antivirus software provider AVG. The Q4 2012 Community Powered Threat Report reveals some schoolchildren have ...
Tags: AVG, malicious code, cyber security
Mailing your cellphone to a recycling company might make you a few pounds, but it can leave you at risk of identity theft. The deletion techniques recycling companies use are meant for hard discs, and so don't work on the solid-state flash ...
Tags: cellphone, deletion techniques, flash memory
February 1, 2013 -- Canada Credit Fix, Canada’s leading credit restoration and debt settlement specialists, has recently offered its services to the Canadian government in response to a recent loss of student loans data. The loss of ...
Tags: Canada Credit, Loan Victims, Service