Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin has got himself into hot water, after a British newspaper exposed he was in the habit of dumping private correspondence and sensitive documents detailing Al-Qaeda activities and secret service operations into park bins near Downing Street. The Daily Mirror reported that some of the documents dumped by Letwin in St James’s […]
Cybercriminals are always looking for easy ways to break into your network, whether at work or at home. In a talk at this summer’s DefCon 19 conference, security researcher Deral Heiland demonstrated various ways to compromise Internet-ready consumer-grade multifunction printers. These include printers that can scan to a file, scan to email, and fax documents, […]
A British man stole ?35,000 (approximately US$ 55,000) from his neighbours’ bank accounts after determining their passwords via personal information they posted on Facebook. Fortunately, there’s some advice which the rest of us (and indeed online banks) might take away from the story to make all of us more secure in future. According to a […]
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