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Article | 19/04/2011 India plans paper trail for electronic voting machines
India's Election Commission is considering introducing paper trails to its electronic voting machines (EVMs), following criticism that the machines co...
Article | 19/04/2011 South Korea probes possible cyberattack on large bank
Authorities in South Korea are probing a large system failure at a popular bank, trying to determine whether the incident was an error or a cybercrime...
Article | 19/04/2011 Protect your data from Skype for Android
The Skype for Android app puts your sensitive data at risk, possibly exposing it to other apps without your knowledge or consent. Skype is working on ...
Article | 19/04/2011 Security manager's journal: Keeping in-house code safe
We have a major problem, which explains why I'm sitting in an airport right now. I'm heading off to visit some third parties that develop portions of ...
Article | 18/04/2011 Toshiba self-encrypting hard drive has promise
Toshiba has introduced a series of self-encrypting hard drives that come with what the company says is a unique self-diagnostic feature that blocks ac...
Article | 14/04/2011 Hackers gain root access to Wordpress servers
Hackers have compromised several servers that support WordPress and may have obtained source code, according to the founding developer of Automattic, ...
Article | 12/04/2011 Dropbox: Insecure by design?
The fundamental security of the Dropbox cloud storage service has been called into question by a researcher.
Article | 11/04/2011 UK police arrest three men over 'SpyEye' malware
U.K. police arrested three men late last week in connection with using the SpyEye malware program to steal online banking details.
Article | 9/04/2011 Government made me do it, imprisoned TJX hacker claims
Convicted hacker Albert Gonzalez, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the massive hacks at TJX, Heartland and ...
Article | 8/04/2011 Lessons Learned from the Epsilon Data Breach
Unless you are a statistical anomaly, you should have received a handful of notifications by now from companies like Chase Bank, or Best Buy warning y...
Article | 7/04/2011 Leaving your job? Take your data with you
Nothing lasts forever, and in the 21st century, most people's employment is anything but guaranteed. What should have some permanence, however, is our...
Article | 7/04/2011 Google apps: How we locked down documents
Although Google Apps has made progress over the past few years as a cloud-based collaboration and productivity suite for businesses, the first big wav...
Article | 1/04/2011 Protect online privacy without reading the fine print
Your personal data is out there. Every thought you tap out on Twitter, every status update you post on Facebook, and even the last credit card purchas...
Article | 1/04/2011 Would you realize if you lost your smartphone?
A new survey finds that only a third of mobile phone owners would realize they had lost their phone within 15 minutes. According to the research condu...
Article | 30/03/2011 BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants
The personal information of 13,000 individuals who had filed compensation claims with BP after last year's disastrous oil spill may have been potentia...