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Mozilla explains user-tracking proposal for Firefox

Telemetry has no UUID, Metrics Data Ping might

8 Feb 15:14

LinkedIn offers MORE SECURE hobnobbing option

Social-network-for-suits finally gets some SSL love

8 Feb 14:02

Marlinspike asks browser vendors to back SSL-validator

Analysis 'Convergence' open source dev needs vendors to balance the load

8 Feb 13:38

Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices

Investigators probe malware threat to 2-factor authentication

6 Feb 08:01

Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call

Were you talking about us?

3 Feb 17:11

Demand for safety kitemark on software stepped up

MPs want new standard plus web security schooling

2 Feb 13:03

Met's email hack probe turns spotlight on The Times - MP

Scotland Yard keeps mum

2 Feb 11:32

New Trojan routes your bank's calls to CROOKS

That's right, I really just ordered 10 plasma tellies...

2 Feb 08:02

MasterCard joins Visa in pushing PINs into America

13 months and counting

1 Feb 16:02

Council fined £140k for leaking kids' sensitive info

First Scottish organisation fined by information commissioner

31 Jan 08:02

Google, Facebook, Microsoft in PHISH-FIGHTING smackdown

DMARC Brothers back cross-industry standard

30 Jan 17:33

US lawmakers question Google over privacy policy

Politicos ask if Chocolate Factory's new rules violate an FTC agreement

27 Jan 15:02

O2 3G stops giving punters' mobile numbers to websites

HTTP header blooper stamped out within hours after outcry

25 Jan 13:53

Campaign launched to teach consumers about ad-stalking

Ad body produces guide to online behavioural advertising

24 Jan 08:01

Mozilla pushes browser-based alternative to passwords

Give us your keys to look after, we're lovely

20 Jan 13:33

Zappos coughs to HUGE data breach

Up to 24 million users zappwn3d

16 Jan 10:06

NHS fined £375k after stolen patient data flogged on eBay

Hospital bosses appeal against ICO's stiffest punishment yet

13 Jan 08:01

Pro-Israel hackers threaten tit for tat after credit card leak

Saudi e-stores and Israeli diplomat's site nobbled in cyber-spat

10 Jan 16:29

Sites knocked offline by OpenDNS freeze on Google

JavaScript-hosting server branded 'phishing' den

5 Jan 09:31

Apple’s Siri gets sweary with British child

Shut the f*** up, you ugly t***

30 Dec 17:28

Facebook suggests you get out more - and it'll tell you how

It knows what you did last summer and next summer

28 Dec 09:42

Facebook's 'Darwinian' nature keeps users safe - Irish gov

Billions of web2.0 monkeys one day to evolve into humans?

21 Dec 14:59

Atari and Square Enix cough to exposing users' privates

Gaming security still sux

20 Dec 08:59

'Self-aware' bank account robbing code unleashed by hacker

'XSS on steroids' crafted to highlight web security holes

16 Dec 13:48

Fanbois locked out of iTunes store, iCloud in Apple outage

Updated Fury as Cupertino's login servers fall over

16 Dec 12:11

Facebook won't deny it is sitting on huge mountain of cash

Mole says Zuck still owns a quarter of it

15 Dec 18:29

Stolen, remote-wiped iPhones still get owner's iMessages

Crafty internet SMS app proves impervious to scrubbing

15 Dec 18:06

Carrier IQ meets feds 'to educate them'

Smartphone-probing app firm seeks to avoid being probed

15 Dec 15:52

Facebook rolls out Timeline to world+dog

Brace yourself for 'frictionless sharing' ... bitch

15 Dec 13:54

Google Wallet fails to encrypt punters' personal data

Your mobile knows what you spent last summer

15 Dec 11:02

ICO warns: Just six months to comply with EC cookie rules

No 'wave of knee-jerk enforcement' come 26 May, tho

15 Dec 09:37

Web scam-busting trio thwarted by mystery DDoS rocket

Updated Backhanded compliment for fraud alert sites

12 Dec 12:03

Concerns over plan to boost pharma by releasing NHS data

Voices join chorus of disquiet

12 Dec 09:17

Twitter redesign seeks to monetise user base

'Bringing you closer to everything you care about'!

9 Dec 11:16

Leaked EU data protection draft SHALL. NOT. PASS.

Analysis Doubtful Commission's proposals will be enacted in this form

9 Dec 09:42

Post Office wins contract to take snaps of foreigners

Checks on non-Brit residents to include online service for employers

9 Dec 09:03

Man fights felony hacking charge for accessing wife's email

Gmail showed her having extramarital affair

7 Dec 17:42

Yahoo! 0-day! exploit! hijacks! status! updates!

Right now I'm: spamming my contacts with malware links

2 Dec 16:23

Facebook, FTC settle over privacy ‘deception’

All Friends again - for 20 years at least

29 Nov 20:55

13 MILLION gamers in ID theft scare after Nexon breach

Game items offered to punters who change their passwords

29 Nov 12:22

Councils emailed vulnerable people's data to strangers

ICO fines Worcestershire and North Somerset for breaches

29 Nov 09:16

EU can't discriminate between public and private personal data

Organisations can lawfully process personal data without consent

29 Nov 08:01

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