Neowin News Feed for: Breaches

Mozilla executive pens an open letter on India's data privacy laws and Aadhaar

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 22:24:01 +0000

The Mozilla executive expressed her concern over the security of the contentious biometric ID system in India. The open letter appeared as a full-page advertisement on one of India's leading dailies. Read more...

Data Breaches Responsible For Only 6% of identity fraud

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:29:02 +0000

Public notifications of breaches reached into the tens of millions last year, but identity fraud only increased four percent. The large number of data breaches and the publicity they have received has created the incorrect... Read more...

Survey finds human at fault for security breaches

Sun, 11 Apr 2004 05:00:04 +0000

Human error is to blame for 84 per cent of IT security breaches, according to a survey of more than 900 organisations. In its second annual study of IT security and the workforce,... Read more...

Linux security breaches at all time high

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:48:38 +0000

A UK BASED security firm claimed today that online Web sites using the Linux operating system have reached an all-time high over the last three months. British firm mi2g claimed that Windows based servers were... Read more...

Database security breaches on the increase

Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:07:00 +0000

Direct security breaches against databases appear to be on the rise, according to the recently released Summer 2002 Database Developers survey from research firm Evans Data Corp. The report revealed that one... Read more...

Microsoft blames laidback sys admins for IIS breaches

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:11:15 +0000

Thanks JimF for this bit of news. A Microsoft security expert claims system administrators do not do enough to shore up IIS web servers from security threats, with the result that the software... Read more...