Slack is the latest start-up to make a big media splash in one of the worst possible ways - by acknowledging a data breach that exposed its users to malicious hackers.
At least two sellers on the dark net appear to be selling Uber customer logins for as little as $1, with one offering a discount for bulk purchases.
If you were a cracker, and you could write your own specifications for a remote unauthorised read/write hole...
...this is probably what you'd ask for.
The landmark case could determine if Google can be held accountable in the UK. Safari users have formed a group to seek damages.
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A lawyer for the European Commission told an EU judge he should leave Facebook if he wants to stop the US snooping on him.
PayPal just agreed to pay up $7.6M to the US Treasury for allegedly failing to block transactions that fell foul of sanctions laws.
Getting Wi-Fi security right is essential for everyone, but small businesses especially could use some good security advice. Here are 3 key things small businesses should know about securing Wi-Fi.
Nothing like a bit of Photoshopping and access to the school's Twitter account to turn an unwitting head teacher into a beefcake.
In yet another example of how very hackable Tinder is, an engineer set up bait female profiles and then hooked up the guys who "liked" them.
US research institute SRI has inked a deal with Samsung to build a tablet with built-in iris recognition.
Samsung's S5 fingerprint reader was cracked PDQ...wonder how long your eye-prints will hold up?
Despite it's privacy policy, bankrupt RadioShack is putting customer names, addresses, email addresses and other data up for auction.
Canada's strict anti-spam laws have come down hard on another offender, with the operators of dating website Plenty Of Fish paying a $48,000 penalty for failing to provide proper unsubscribe options in emails sent to its users.
Uber has joined the rank of Big Data sellers, up there with Facebook, Google and Visa. The product: data about customers' movements, where they shop, where they work, where they go and much more.
The entire LPR dataset of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) included more than 4.6 million reads of over 1.1 million unique plates captured in just over 3 years.
TLS certificates are very important.
In fact, you could say they are the cornerstone of online security, especially for e-commerce.
So we thought we'd use a story about a recent certificate security blunder to remind you why...
India's Supreme Court has repealed a controversial law that allowed police to arrest people over objectionable content posted on social networks and other websites.
Chester is on the road again, this time to present at a conference in Slovenia.
So this episode of the Chet Chat comes to you from an al fresco café in downtown Ljubljana...
Privacy concerns made it smell like yesterday's fish, but apparently that's just the aroma of fine-tuning as the beloved/reviled face-huggers get made ready for the masses.
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