Are you worried about giving out your personal information when shopping online? You should be. It seems like not a week goes by without news of another massive data breach where hackers gain access to personal information like names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and credit or bank card numbers of customers. This is often enough information to commit financial … [Read more...] about Protect Personal Information When Shopping Online
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Putting IT Standards Behind Paywalls Jeopardizes Our Security
Rick Falkvinge over at the Private Internet Access blog makes an interesting point. He notes that when we complain about paywalls, we typically think of them in terms of the impact they have on journalism and the news industry. I would also add that in academia we debate about paywalled research articles and the wider social, cultural, political, and economic implications this … [Read more...] about Putting IT Standards Behind Paywalls Jeopardizes Our Security
Top Cyber & Privacy News – 7 October 2017
A list of the top 10 cyber and privacy related stories shared online in the last 24 hours. The NSA Officially Has a Rogue Contractor Problem USA Liberty Act: New ‘Foreign’ Intelligence Law Will Legalize Spying On Americans Mozilla to launch Firefox Cliqz Experiment with data collecting The Surveillance State Will Not Save Us EU to implement … [Read more...] about Top Cyber & Privacy News – 7 October 2017
Overnight #Cyber: 5 Popular Stories While You Slept
Below are the top overnight cyber stories curated by c0nvey from the list of cyber and national security experts I follow on Twitter: Give your resume a boost with #IEEE's new course programs in #CyberSecurity & Ethical... https://t.co/F71fYS8vmo by… https://t.co/PHoHDoIxIj ---------- Number of Cyber Essentials certificates trebles in a year to more than 6,000 … [Read more...] about Overnight #Cyber: 5 Popular Stories While You Slept
Pew Cybersecurity Survey: Americans Don’t Trust Gov’t or Industry
The new Pew Survey on American's attitudes and practices related to cybersecurity is out. Basically, it's not good. A majority of Americans (64%) have personally experienced a major data breach, and relatively large shares of the public lack trust in key institutions – especially the federal government and social media sites – to protect their personal information. via … [Read more...] about Pew Cybersecurity Survey: Americans Don’t Trust Gov’t or Industry