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Dropbox password debacle underscores importance of data encryption
A code update over the weekend inadvertently broke the password authentication component of Dropbox, a popular cloud storage service. For about four hours on Sunday, this error allowed users to log
Dropbox accounts left completely unprotected for four hours
A flawed code update over the weekend botched the password authentication component of Dropbox on Sunday, leaving the popular cloud storage service essentially unprotected for four hours. As reported
Please show us your porn collection
If you're planning on traveling to Australia, you might want to be aware of a new question which was quietly added into the country's Incoming Passenger Cards last September. The question asks
Drowning in passwords
If you are like me and millions of others online, you've got more than one password--many more. You may have one that is six or seven letters or one that combines letters and numbers. There could be
Cost of carelessness hits the CIO's budget
David Perry, global director of education for Trend Micro, tells Forbes that as many as one in five virus infections come from users who purposefully infect themselves out of curiosity. This is just
Data thieves hit universities
A university in Idaho and a college in Arizona are busy doing what they can to quell students' and staffers' fears about personal data gone missing. The University of Idaho reported that three
Another laptop goes missing at Boeing
Boeing has fired an employee that it says was responsible for the theft of a laptop this month and is working with law enforcement to track down the mobile device, as it contains confidential
SPOTLIGHT: Missing bank laptops hold critical data
Yet another banking institution has reported that three of its laptops have been stolen, putting the confidential data of thousands of customers at risk. Sovereign Bank has sent letters out to its
Security researcher discovers stolen data stash
Researchers at a security vendor have discovered data on stolen identities from 125 countries that were apparently grabbed through a new variant of a Trojan horse program. The stolen data,
