Security News

The next step in the battle for consumer privacy? (Help Net Security)
2016-03-15 18:01

A recent survey of 2,000 US individuals by Hide My Ass VPN showed some unnerving data: 63 percent of them have experienced online security issues, but only a little more than half of that subset...

Interesting Research on the Economics of Privacy (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-07 21:59

New paper: "The Economics of Privacy, by Alessandro Acquisti, Curtis R. Taylor, and Liad Wagman: Abstract: This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of empirical and...

Companies are realizing that security and privacy go hand in hand (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 03:16

50 percent of companies over the past two years have increased the involvement of privacy professionals on their information security teams to enhance the prevention of data breaches, a joint...