Google is offering prizes totaling $2.7 million for a hacking contest it will sponsor in March at a Canadian security conference, for any entrants that can hack into Google’s operating system, Chrome OS. Article Excerpt: Google yesterday said it would again host its...
Coca-Cola notified about 74,000 current and former employees, as well as “external third parties,” that their personal information stored on corporate laptops may have been breached after the laptops were stolen. Article Excerpt: Coca-Cola said Friday personal...
Social Security and tax ID numbers of over 24,000 California doctors were accidentally posted by Anthem Blue Cross recently. The information stayed online for about 24 hours. Article Excerpt: Allina Health is notifying 3,807 patients by letter that a medical assistant...
A Minnesota medical clinic employee has fired because she viewed patient records without authorization. The medical facility notified approximately 3800 patients of the breach and offered them free credit monitoring services. Article Excerpt: Allina Health is...
If you think your personal data is secure, you’re probably wrong. Article Excerpt: It’s my first class of the semester at New York University. I’m discussing the evils of plagiarism and falsifying sources with 11 graduate journalism students when, without warning, my...
One developer claims the popular messaging application WhatsApp Messenger has encryption issues that allow hackers to read communications between users. Article Excerpt: The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp Messenger has a major design flaw in its...
