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Leaked EU memo highlights concerns over data retention law
Digital rights groups in Europe have called for a ban on blanket data retention after a leaked internal memo from the European Commission admitted...
Many pcAnywhere systems still sitting ducks
Symantec warns that its product should not be connected directly to the Internet, yet an estimated 140,000 computers are configured to allow direct...
IT pros believe data breach harm assessment is more valuable than victim notification, study says
IT professionals believe that assessing the potential harm caused by data breaches is more useful to mitigating the effects of such incidents than...
4 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation
This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day. DPD, as it's known, is a day to "increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues among...
The Oracle flaw: Clarifications and more information
In the wake of InfoWorld's exclusive story on a flaw in Oracle's flagship database product, Oracle weighs in and new developments emerge
DreamHost resets customer FTP passwords following database breach
Los Angeles-based Web hosting firm DreamHost reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers on Friday after detecting unauthorized...
Romanian NASA hacker gets a three-year suspended prison sentence
Robert Butyka, a 26-year old Romanian man accused of hacking into multiple NASA servers, received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday...
Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed
A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but...
Sykipot Trojan hijacks Department of Defense authentication smart cards
A variant of the Sykipot Trojan Horse hijacks U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) smart cards in order to access restricted resources.
Father's attempt at parental control resulted in hacked German police system
The course of events that led to the July 2011 compromise of a computer server used by German authorities for GPS surveillance might have started...
Father's attempt at parental control resulted in hacked German police system
The course of events that led to the July 2011 compromise of a computer server used by German authorities for GPS surveillance might have started...
Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors
The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues
Symantec confirms source code leak in two enterprise security products
Symantec late Thursday confirmed that source code used in two of its older enterprise security products was publicly exposed by hackers this week.
Two new tools exploit router security setup problem
Researchers have released two tools that can take advantage of a weakness in a system designed to let people easily secure their wireless routers.
Ten IT news stories we'll read in 2012
Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we...
Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars...
Committee approves cybersharing bill despite privacy concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has approved a recently introduced bill that would allow greater cyberthreat information...
Data Protection Convention undergoes a rewrite
A 30-year old international treaty covering data protection is undergoing a partial rewrite to reflect new concerns in the age of the Internet.
European distrust of US data security creates market for local cloud service
Concern over the laxity of United States data protection laws has created a new market for Europe-based cloud computing services.
EU seeks to simplify cross-border data protection compliance
To make it simpler for businesses to comply with the multiplicity of data protection regimes across Europe, Viviane Reding envisages letting European...
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