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Mass-mail fail followed outfit's appearance at jobs fair BT Security managed to commit the most basic blunder of all after emailing around 150 infosec professionals who attended a jobs fair –...

Government cares what you think. Honest A UK Home Office consultation on new, intrusive police powers was so incompetently written that you could both "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree" at...

64 bits of cert ID on the wall, 64 bits of ID. Take the top bit down, don't pass it around, 63 bits of cert ID on the wall... A bunfight over a controversial UAE mobile security company led to the...

What a difference a bit makes. 64 little flowers... brought the revokes and the scowls A mailing list bunfight over a controversial UAE mobile security company led to the discovery that millions...

Scant Detail on Incident and Unusual Email Notification Raises EyebrowsAmazon has blamed a technical error for its inadvertent exposure of some customers' names and email addresses online. The...


Firm helps self with own disaster recovery A misconfigured server at data recovery and backup firm Veeam exposed millions of email addresses.…

Paging Equifax: Time to update again, fellas Another critical security hole has been found in Apache Struts 2, requiring an immediate update.…

You could put words in people's mouths, claim researchers Researchers have uncovered security shortcomings in WhatsApp that create a means for hackers to intercept and manipulate messages sent in...

Potentially impacted customers include organizations like Aldo, Dunkin Donuts, GE, HauteLook, Nestle Waters, News Corp Australia and Sony.