Security issues in the news
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These pages are updated as the security news stories break:
News stories
- Dropbox: Password Breach Led to Spam (refer especially to the response from 'Jocelyn') (KrebsonSecurity, 31 July, 2012)
- UK Phisher jailed for six years over £1.5m students loan scam (ZDNet, 9 July 2012)
- Watchdog finds undeleted data on second-hand disk drive (BBC News, 25 April 2012)
- Stealing for science (University of Twente, 16 February 2012)
- ICO clarifies law on information held in private email accounts (Information Commisioners' Office, 15 December 2011)
- Has Facebook got your mobile number? Now your friends do too (Sophos/ Naked Security, 11 August 2011)
- Phone hacking: how to change your voicemail password (The Telegraph, 7 July 2011)
- Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hours Sunday (Wired, 20 June 2011)
- Study reveals scale of fake tech support call scams (Sophos/ Naked Security, 16 June 2011)
- Two councils hit with big fines for laptop blunder (The Register, 8 Feb, 2011)
- 50 million viruses and rising (The H Security, 27 Jan, 2011)
- How does your vacation affect your security? (Securelist, 22 July, 2010)
- Trojan attacks now almost solely from legitimate websites (The H Security, 30 June 2010)
- Vulnerability in iPhone data encryption (The H Security, 26 May 2010)
- UK Students become phishing targets (The H Security, 20 April 2010)
- Data watchdog slaps Southampton Uni hospital (The Register, 25 January 2010)
- Data hung out to dry as 4500 USB sticks left in dry cleaners (Infosecurity, 21 January 2010)
- Working from home (Martineau Education Bulletin, January 2010)
Reports
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