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Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr on her investigation into the firm at the centre of a data breach that shamed Facebook and exposed foul play in the EU referendum campaign and US presidential election Earlier this year, The Observer and The Guardian broke the story that became the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It was the result of … Devamını oku

The credit card details of 380,000 British Airways customers could already be on sale on the dark web after the airline suffered a ‘malicious’ data breach British Airways data breach: what to do if you have been affected How did hackers manage to lift the details of BA customers? Continue reading…

We want to hear from you if the airline has contacted you or you have encountered problems after contacting your bank British Airways customer data stolen from its website British Airways has warned customers that around 380,000 card payments on its website and app were compromised during a 15-day data breach. Related: British Airways data … Devamını oku

Álex Cruz apologises for ‘sophisticated’ theft affecting 380,000 payment cards Have you been affected by the breach? Let us know The chief executive of British Airways has promised to compensate customers who have had their data stolen in what he described as a sophisticated breach of the company’s security systems. Related: British Airways data breach: … Devamını oku

Border Force detain British-Australian software developer Nathan Hague, apparently at random, for 90 minutes A British-Australian citizen travelling through Sydney airport has had his devices seized, and believes his laptop password cracked and his digital files inspected by Border Force officers, in what privacy groups say is a worrying development. Nathan Hague, a 46-year-old software … Devamını oku

Health and beauty retailer advises online customers to change their passwords Superdrug has advised its online customers to change their passwords after the high street chain was targeted by hackers claiming to have stolen the personal details of thousands of people. The health and beauty retailer told customers it had been contacted by a group … Devamını oku

Health and medication data posted in error on Strathmore seconday college intranet The personal records of hundreds of Melbourne high school students have been mistakenly published, sparking an investigation into an “appalling” privacy breach. The Victoria education minister, James Merlino, said his department would launch an inquiry into the breach at Strathmore secondary college in … Devamını oku

Holiday camp firm says payment details secure and it will contact those affected Butlin’s has said up to 34,000 guest records may have been accessed by hackers. The holiday camp firm said the customer data at risk included names, home addresses, email addresses and phone numbers, but that payment details were secure. Continue reading…

Australia’s House of Representatives has finally passed the “Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018,” also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, on Thursday that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypted communications. The Australian government argues the new legislation is important for national

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than 2147483647 can execute any systemctl command unauthorizedly—thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability. The reported vulnerability actually resides in PolicyKit (also known as polkit)—an application-level toolkit for Unix-like operating systems that defines