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The IT admin demanded $10,000, when he didn’t get it things got X-rated
A key protocol created as a short-term solution in 1989 is designed to automatically trust users, a flaw that leaves the network ripe for attack.
The Equifax breach wasn't the first mega-breach. But there are some steps that could help make it the last.
Consumers' most sensitive data is now in the open and will remain so for years to come.
A series of fraudulent emails convinced university staff to change electronic banking information for one of the university’s major vendors.
The Wizard of Oz was right: “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
A court ruling means that Yahoo! and its parent company, Verizon, could end paying a heavy price for the huge breaches that saw more than 1bn people’s details compromised
Emily Hughes was told someone with the same name, born on the same day in the same area has already applied.
After an incident, a bioethicist calls for crackdown as doctors threaten legal action.
It's Google Buzz's screwup all over again. That you talked to someone on the phone once DOES NOT mean you two are socially connected.
How quickly do you push the big red Delete button on someone’s access after they leave?
A new study has found that as much as 80 percent of the raw scientific data collected by researchers in the early 1990s is gone forever, mostly because no one knows where to find it.
When a crappy change to a business model does in a large swathe of the historical web.
Personal information leaked in sensitive contexts can spark violence, discrimination, exclusionary policies. Yet my NGO shares confidential data freely
ISBN unique? Yeah, nope.
Ongoing campaign shows more hackers are adopting sneaky attack technique.
I realize I haven’t posted in awhile but I’ve been busy, what can I say? I’ve been continuing to ingest our preservation files into APTrust, creating workflows for collections wit…
One of the biggest civil liberties issues raised by technology today is whether, when, and how we allow computer algorithms to make decisions that affect people’s lives. We’re starting to see this in