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How employee motivation changes with a company’s data loss.

Ransomware makers seem to be following a new trend, publishing data from companies that refuse to pay them.

Chrome and Firefox extensions can collect your browsing history. Learn why this is dangerous and how to protect yourself.

Why personal mobile devices used for work need to be secure.

British Airways may pay a record fine for last year’s data breach.

In this post we explain why digital clutter can cost you your job.

Hundreds of thousands of tokens and cryptographic keys have been discovered on GitHub. We explain why this is bad and how to avoid a leak.

A huge database of leaked e-mails and passwords surfaced in the Internet. Here’s what you should do about it.

The personal data of 257,000 Facebook users, including private messages belonging to 81,000 of them, has leaked online. Hackers claim to have access to 120 million accounts.

Facebook has been breached, and malefactors gained access to some 50 million accounts. We offer some quick tips for your safety.

How Twitter’s “not-a-leak” made me realize that remembering passwords no longer works.

Ten mistakes that led to the destruction of the Death Star.

Even very popular apps display ads using third-party code, which can transmit personal data unencrypted.

Considering the sweeping regulations and laws meant to safeguard children’s privacy in particular, you might think electronic devices and connected toys for kids would be particularly safe and secure. We

Yahoo is expected to announce a “massive” data breach ahead of its impending sale to Verizon. Although the news is not yet confirmed at the time of this posting (several

Earlier this week, my colleague Chris from Threatpost penned an article about how Dropbox forced a password reset for users who had not changed their passwords since 2012. At the

Everyone likes Twitter. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but at least 310 million users visit the microblogging platform monthly. And now these 310 million have to consider changing their Twitter

Like the invention of the fire pit, the history of the first password is lost to the depths of time. We know that Romans used them. Shakespeare mentioned passwords in

We know that our drumming on the importance of changing your passwords frequently can seem like overkill to many of our readers. However, to help prove the importance of this,

The biggest data breach in history happened when Mossack Fonseca papers fell into the hands of German journalists. The leaked a 2.6 terabyte archive that included 11.5 million documents —

Do you stream music on Spotify at home or work? Chances are that you are one of the millions of users to the popular online service. So you should read