Posts Categorized: privacy
Security News Roundup: Defending The Indefensible
Here’s a data security conundrum. The news that anonymous DNA sample data has been used to personally identify the original donor sounds, at first, like an information security problem. The reality is, it isn’t. A team of geneticists has shown there is a systematic weakness in the way that this data is handled. It turns out… Read more »
Security News Roundup: Can You Hear Me Now?
Sometimes, the price of success is unwanted attention. Witness the apparently stratospheric rise in malware on the Android mobile platform. With mobile usage continuing to explode, coupled with the vast array of valuable data we store and access from our phones, it should come as no surprise that the bad guys want a piece of… Read more »