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Twitter spy scandal a wake-up call for companies to clean up their data access acts

12

Nov

2019

A tremor rippled across the information security community last week when the Justice Department announced criminal charges against two Twitter employees, Ahmad Abouammo and Ali Alzabarah, for acting as foreign agents under the direction and control of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The complaint alleges that the two men used their ability to access user […]

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Over 10,000 Individuals Affected by Park Hill School District Data Leak Incident

09

Jul

2014

More than 10,000 former workers and students of the Park Hill School District have been notified by officials that private information about them has been exposed to unauthorized persons.Unlike most data breach incidents, this one did not involve bypassing the security of the systems storing the information. The personal details of more than 10,000 individuals […]

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Second-Hand Smartphones Are a Trove of Personal Information

09

Jul

2014

Many mobile device users rely on simply deleting the private information on the storage card of the phone before selling it, in order to ensure that sensitive details are not passed to the new owner. However, items are stored persistently, and unless they are corrupted through overwrite action, they can be recovered. Avast carried out […]

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