Security News > 2016 > March

Consumers living in smart homes are willing to sell personal data (Help Net Security)
2016-03-31 14:34

A majority of respondents worldwide might be willing to share their personal data collected from their smart home with companies in exchange for money, and 70 percent agree companies should give...

Linux security isn’t enough to stop data breaches (Help Net Security)
2016-03-31 14:10

There is a difference between the security of an operating system and the security of the data created, which is edited and manipulated by people and saved on the operating system. Human error and...

NIST security standard to protect credit cards, health information (Help Net Security)
2016-03-31 13:47

For many years, when you swiped your credit card, your number would be stored on the card reader, making encryption difficult to implement. Now, after nearly a decade of collaboration with...