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ELECTION OFFICIAL APOLOGIZES FOR PRIVACY BREACH

A serious privacy breach has been discovered with the New Brunswick voters list, Premier David Alward informed the legislative assembly. Elections NB distributed a computer disc containing private information about voters, including phone numbers and driver's licence numbers to New Brunswick's political parties — MORE

RESEARCH: VIRUSES ARE THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES

Panda Security's first-quarter report for 2012 reveals something rather interesting about the antivirus market. Based on the report's figures, a literal antivirus program, one that strictly and only protects against viruses, would miss almost 95 percent of new malware threats — MORE

MALICIOUS ONLINE ADS TARGET CONSUMERS

One of the sneakiest scams among cybercrooks these days involves malicious advertisements that can infect a computer with nasty software even if a person merely happens onto a website where the ads appear and doesn't click on them — MORE

10 BIGGEST COMPUTER SECURITY MYTHS BUSTED

While many criminals and scammers use email, web sites and other electronic tools, they haven't abandoned more traditional methods. According to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, phone scams remain more common than any other type — MORE

83% OF CONSUMERS WOULD CHANGE MOBILE PROVIDERS IF THEIR PRIVACY WAS COMPROMISED

According to AdaptiveMobile's third Global Security Insights in Mobile report, polling 1024 consumers, eight out of ten consumers feel extremely strong about security, representing both an opportunity and a threat for operators today — MORE

EU PRIVACY CHIEF WARNS OF INTERNET SPYING THREAT

A global trade deal to stop copyright theft could give internet providers the right to spy on users, breaching European Union law, the EU's data privacy chief said on Tuesday — MORE

CRIMEWARE, BIGGEST THREAT TO COMPUTERS

Today, the biggest threat facing computers is crimeware. This malicious software is written by cybercriminals with the purpose of making money illegally — MORE

MICROSOFT RAIDS TACKLE INTERNET CRIME

Microsoft employees, accompanied by United States marshals, raided two nondescript office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois in March, aiming to disrupt one of the most pernicious forms of online crime today - botnets, or groups of computers that help harvest bank account passwords and other personal information from millions of other computers — MORE

IRS COMPUTER SECURITY CENTER NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

The office at the Internal Revenue Service that is responsible for monitoring the IRS network for cyberattacks and computer vulnerabilities is generally doing a good job, but still has room for improvement, according to a new government report — MORE

PRIVACY BREACH: IS YOUR BUSINESS READY TO MANAGE ONE?

A recent study facilitated jointly by Verizon Risk, the U.S. secret service and the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit reported that 96% of studied breaches could have been avoided by the victim business without needing to take difficult or expensive steps — MORE

SECURITY TROUBLESHOOTING TECHNIQUES

When your computer is acting weird and you can't find any reason for it, turning it off and on again really is the first thing you should try. Here are a few other techniques for tracking down problems that may or may not represent malware activity — MORE

NEW INTEREST IN HACKING AS THREAT TO SECURITY

During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases, compared with 11 over the same period a year ago — MORE

COMPUTER SECURITY SPENDING UP IN EUROPE

Western European companies are spending significantly more to protect against cyberattacks as "denial-of-service" cases mount, analysts said this week — MORE

IS YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER AT RISK WHEN YOU GO TO A RESTAURANT?

The real threat isn't that your charming waiter will steal your financial information. It's that the Russian mafia will steal it from your waiter — MORE

STOLEN NASA LAPTOP HAD SPACE STATION CONTROL CODE

NASA had 5,408 computer security lapses in 2010 and 2011, including the March 2011 loss of a laptop computer that contained algorithms used to command and control the International Space Station (ISS), the agency's inspector general told Congress — MORE

HACKERS PENETRATED NASA COMPUTERS 13 TIMES LAST YEAR

Hackers penetrated NASA's computers 13 times last year, including one China-based breach that gained total access to and control of crucial systems and employee accounts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the space agency's inspector general told Congress this week — MORE

SEVEN COMPUTER SECURITY FEARS TO SHAPE 2012

On the conference's first full day, some experts told attendees about which specific bogeymen we need to be wary of. Here are seven taken from talks at the event today, starting with some surprising ones from influential security expert Bruce Schneier — MORE

5 STEPS TO ASSESS HEALTH DATA BREACH RISKS

A new report outlines the financial costs of breaches of protected health data - and offers a five-step method for healthcare providers of any size to assess their risk — MORE

AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE UNDER INVESTIGATION OVER PRIVACY BREACH

The bungle at Townsville's Lavarack Barracks posted medical information, discipline records and psychology reports online for all to see — MORE

CHINESE CYBER-SPIES SET UP FAKE FACEBOOK PROFILE TO 'FRIEND'TOP NATO OFFICIALS

An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer on the Libyan mission — MORE

CIA HACK EXPOSES AGENCY'S COMPUTER SYSTEM VULNERABILITY TO ATTACK

The CIA website was hit in a series of attacks conducted by the elusive hacker group that previously targeted US law enforcement agencies in response to the "crack down" of Occupy movement protestors — MORE

AUSTRALIAN SMALL BUSINESSES LAG ON COMPUTER SECURITY

Small businesses have embraced the internet but 16 per cent don't use anti-virus software and 30 per cent don't use a protective firewall, a new study shows — MORE

CANADIAN VETERANS' PRIVACY BREACHES PROMPT CALL FOR INQUIRY

NDP veterans affairs critic Peter Stoffer is calling for a public inquiry into breaches of privacy of the medical information of former military members — MORE

GOOGLE SLAMMED FOR LATEST PRIVACY BREACH

Google faced an avalanche of criticism Friday as regulators, digital rights activists and consumer groups harshly criticized the Internet giant's deliberate decision to override the privacy controls in the Web browsers of Apple iPhone and Mac users — MORE

COMPUTER SECURITY CAN BE TRICKY

Researchers at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan, have devised a method through which the computer can pick up through the palms of the hands whether the individual possesses the heartbeat required to unlock a particular hard drive — MORE

BUSINESS CRIME THRIVES IN 'THE CLOUD' - RCMP

Canadian police are struggling to combat business crime in the cloud computing world, an elusive and little-controlled realm that criminals can exploit to steal money and personal identities, and in which foreign governments can collect trade secrets — MORE

CYBERCRIME: PROTECTING AGAINST THE GROWING THREAT

Against a backdrop of data losses and theft, computer viruses and hacking, the survey looks at the significance and impact of this new type of economic crime and how it affects businesses worldwide — MORE

GLOBAL INFORMATION SECURITY SURVEY

This survey has run annually for the past 14 years in order to help businesses focus on the most critical risks, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and improve their information security — MORE

INSIDERS: SECURITY RISK NO. 1

News this week about a former drive-thru employee at a McDonald's in Olympia, Wash., who was busted for skimming patrons' card details, hammers the reality that insiders are always our greatest security risks — MORE

MAJOR CYBER SECURITY EVENTS OF 2011

We present a month-by-month summary of major cyber security incidents that occurred globally in 2011 — MORE

FORCE FIRMS TO DISCLOSE DATA PRIVACY BREACHES, REPORT URGES

In a report published this week, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) criticized Bill C-12, claiming it provides "excessive discretion to organizations that have had a data breach, allowing them unilaterally to characterize the breach as non-harmful to consumers." — MORE

SMB COMPUTER SECURITY AND INTERNET SECURITY AWARENESS GROWS

A recent survey of 1,000 US- and UK-based SMBs released by internet security software provider indicates that traditional IT vulnerabilities are still causing SMBs the most concern, but there is a slow awakening to threats related to emerging technologies, especially among larger SMBs — MORE

7 COMPUTER SECURITY RESOLUTIONS FOR 2012

In spite of one high profile computer security breach after another, many people are still not employing even the most basic safeguards to protect their privacy and their data. Canadian information security firm Defence Intelligence has created the following seven computer security resolutions to help people protect their privacy, their data, and their wallets — MORE

24 MILLION CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS HACKED AT ZAPPOS

Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attack affecting more than 24 million customer accounts in its database — MORE

MAFIA NOW "ITALY'S NO. 1 BANK" AS CRISES BITES - REPORT

Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country's biggest "bank" and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday — MORE

FINDING THE CLEANUP CREW AFTER A MESSY HACK ATTACK

Stratfor joins a list of other hapless prominent organizations that have recently been breached by so-called hacktivists - hackers whose goal is to embarrass and expose them. Among its predecessors are Sony, the security company HBGary and the Arizona Department of Public Safety — MORE

543 MILLION RECORDS BREACHED IN THE US SINCE 2005

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has tracked 535 breaches involving 30.4 million sensitive records as of mid-December of 2011. This brings the total reported records breached in the United States since 2005 to 543 million, the organization says — MORE

LAX SECURITY EXPOSES VOICE MAIL TO HACKING, STUDY SAYS

According to a study to be presented Tuesday, cellphone users in Europe and the rest of the world may be just as vulnerable as the actor Hugh Grant and other celebrities to having their personal voice mail hacked - or worse - because of outdated mobile network security — MORE

COMPUTER HACKERS DONATE $1 MILLION TO CHARITY USING STOLEN CREDIT CARD INFORMATION

A group calling itself Anonymous says it stole thousands of e-mail addresses and credit card information from an on-line security firm to donate $1 million to charity — MORE

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