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Snowden: 4 big security and privacy assumptions he undermined

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Sep

2016

Oliver Stone’s movie about Edward Snowden, which opens on Friday, September 16th, 2016, has a lot of people looking back at one of the biggest information security breaches in US history, the one we learned about in June, 2013. That’s when the UK-based Guardian newspaper published classified information about the mass electronic surveillance activities of […]

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FTC seeks comment on consumer data disposal

13

Sep

2016

On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission requested public comment on the continuing relevance a decade-old data protection rule.

The Disposal Rule, part of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), requires businesses to render consumer reports including credit and background checks unreadable before disposing of them.

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Details of 33 Million Users Stolen in Old QIP Breach

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Sep

2016

A hacker who over the past weeks leaked tens of millions of accounts stolen from various popular services has now revealed that the Russian instant messaging service QIP (Quiet Internet Pager) also suffered a serious data breach several years ago. According to breach notification service LeakedSource, hackers obtained the details of 33,383,392 users following an […]

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