Senator Demands Answers About CloudPets Breach

A U.S. senator has called Spiral Toys onto the carpet for its data security practices in light of the recent CloudPets breach. Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL, a ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and backer of a 2016 report on security and privacy concerns related to...

Donald Trump is Suing a Brooklyn man for Cyber squatting

J. Taikwok Yung is 33, lives with his mom in Brooklyn, and bought domain names that criticize billionaire Donald Trump and cybersquatting him. Cybersquatting is a legitimate crime that's defined by the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. "Cybersquatting also known as domain squatting,...

Donald Trump is Suing a Brooklyn man for Cyber squatting

J. Taikwok Yung is 33, lives with his mom in Brooklyn, and bought domain names that criticize billionaire Donald Trump and cybersquatting him. Cybersquatting is a legitimate crime that’s defined by the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. "Cybersquatting also known as domain squatting,...

Twitter Denies Hacktivists Behind Severe Outage

Twitter officials say it was a “cascading bug” and not the handiwork of hacktivists that brought down the microblogging site today in two separate outages. “This wasn’t due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today,” Mazen Rawashdeh, the company’s vice...

Fat Finger Error Lands Welsh Health Board $114K Fine

An e-mail gaffe and a spelling mistake by a doctor led to a breach of the UK’s Data Protection Act last year, according to a press release by the Information Commissioner’s Office today. The Aneurin Bevan Health Board ABHB in South Wales was fined £70,000 about $114,000 USD after it mistakenly se...

UK Govt. Investigating London Marathon Data Breach That Spilled Info On 38,000

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office ICO said it is looking into a possible data breach of the Website used by organizers of the London Marathon – major, international sporting event that attracted more than 37,000 runners for the 37th running on April 22nd. According to a BBC report, the hom...

University of Sydney failed to secure vulnerable web data !!

The detailed records of thousands of University of Sydney students past and present are being stored online where they can be easily downloaded and read via an internet connection. It is understood the university was told about this security threat in February 2007, but did not move to secure the...

UK: Google Street View Data Snarfing Broke the Law

Search giant Google violated the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act by gobbling up personal data, in addition to images and GPS data, with its roving Street View autos. According to a report by the BBC, the UK’s Information Commissioner ruled there was a “significant breach” of the country’s da...

Canadian Parliament considers anti-malware law

From Stop Badware Maxim Weinstein The Canadian House of Commons is considering bill C-27 gc.ca, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. In addition to providing civil penalties for unsolicited commercial e-mail spam and the unauthorized interception of e-mail man in the middle attacks, it provide...