I just read about how the University of Missouri auctioned off surplus phones from its athletics department without wiping the phones clean of contacts and text messages. Not good. Oddly enough, it turns out that the phones are valuable to...

I just heard on CBC Radio News a few minutes ago that Memorial University of Newfoundland suffered a possible privacy breach via their Better Side paper reuse initiative. The Better Side program makes notebooks out of the blank side of pages that no...

A little over a week ago, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made its final ruling on a consent order against Sears for deceptive trade practices.  Visitors to the Sears website were given the opportunity to download and install software that would...

Earlier today, I read a story from databreaches.net about a how the Houston police took down a “large” identity theft ring.   Apparently, the scheme affected 457 people and 83 businesses across 25 states in the US.  It would seem to me that, in the...

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