Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication
Social networking giant Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was introducing a two-factor security feature that will make user accounts harder to hijack.
Paul Roberts
Weird Science: Verizon Finds Stunning Drop in Data Theft
If there’s one thing that scientists and statisticians both hate, its weird data. And that’s what the folks at Verizon were dealing with when they tallied the results of their 2011 Data Breach Report which found a stunning 97% drop in the number of lost records, even as the number of reported breaches rose precipitously.
Report: Application Security Still Mostly Sucks
The third State of Software Security (SOSS) report finds that software developers are still doing a poor job of making applications secure.
The massive campaign of cyber intrusions of U.S. government Web sites by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) now has a name: “Byzantine Hades,” according to a report Thursday by Reuters.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Wednesday that they had taken actions to disable an international botnet of more than two million infected computers that was stealing corporate data including user names, passwords and financial information.
Servers belonging to Automattic, which makes the popular Wordpress blogging software, say that their servers were hacked and that the company’s source code is believed to have been “exposed and copied,” according to a company blog post Wednesday.
The Texas Comptroller’s Office is issuing letters Wednesday to some 3.5 million citizens after personally identifiable data was left exposed to the public on a state server for more than a year, according to a published statement.
In the wake of the data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon, the specter looms of widespread phishing attacks on hundreds of millions of e-mail users whose information was stolen from the firm. But according to Aaron Higbee, the Chief Technology Officer at Intrepidus Group, organizations had reason to fear phishing attacks long before the Epsilon breach made headlines.
A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of a Grand Jury investigation into loose data privacy practices in the mobile application market confirms that the application silently sends reams of sensitive data to advertisers.
Three quarters of global energy corporations have suffered one or more data breaches in the last 12 months, according to a new survey by The Ponemon Institute, which finds evidence of widespread shortcomings in the energy and utilities vertical.
