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
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
Constant Guard Mobile Helps Protect Xfinity Internet Customers While They Browse, Shop and Bank Online On-The-Go To address growing security threats to consumers’ mobile devices, today Comcast announced it has launched Constant ...
Tags: Mobile devices, Constant Guard Mobile, security threats
The US Federal Reserve has confirmed its computer systems were accessed by hackers but said the incident did not affect the central bank's "critical operations". The acknowledgement came days after the hacker group known as Anonymous ...
Tags: computer systems, Internet, computer
Two U.S. lawmakers plan to reintroduce a controversial cybersecurity bill that allows private companies to share customers' personal information related to a wide range of cyberthreats with government agencies. Representatives Mike ...
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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 ...
Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by ...
Tags: Microsoft, Symantec, botnet, click fraud
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
Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups. As promised, Representatives Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, and C.A. ...
Tags: cyberthreat, digital rights, US
The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, but that no classified information was compromised. The agency is working with federal ...
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
Gemalto on Sunday announced that it will be providing an end-to-end electronic passport solution for the Sultanate of Oman as part of a multi-year contract. Applications will be issued with secure travel documents, using the latest ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...