News (9)

  • Do Facebook's Social Ads breach privacy laws?

    US privacy advocates are questioning Facebook's latest revenue spinner, Social Ads, for possibly breaching 19th century laws designed to protect celebrities from being exploited in print media.

  • UK public fears widespread data-sharing abuse

    The UK information commissioner is calling for restraint when using client information after citizens express fear that data sharing in the public and private sectors is out of control.

  • Facebook outage draws more security questions

    A multi-hour outage on the popular social networking site Facebook earlier today caused a fault with the site that let some users view other's personal site mail, but was not a hack, according to Facebook management.

  • Facebook could cause "privacy chernobyls"

    Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.

  • Facebook evolves into an attack tool for criminals

    As Facebook continues to spread like wild-fire amongst consumers, and increasingly the enterprise as new applications support its use at work, VeriSign iDefense security experts believe Facebook apps are a prime vector for cyber-criminals.

More News >

Blogs (2)

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Facebook e-mail notifications breach privacy

    Shortly after joining the social networking site, I received an e-mail telling me a friend had "written on my wall". Within two clicks I was logged-in and had full access to her Facebook account.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Admins stuck between a hack and a zero-day

    The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?

Create an e-mail alert for "breach"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
breach


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 1 admin
  2. Popularity: 1 attack
  3. Popularity: 1 blog
  4. Popularity: 1 blogs
  5. Popularity: 1 bug
  6. Popularity: 1 data
  7. Popularity: 1 data disclosure
  8. Popularity: 1 data leakage system
  9. Popularity: 1 data security
  10. Popularity: 1 data sharing
  11. Popularity: 1 ddos
  12. Popularity: 1 denial of service
  13. Popularity: 1 development
  14. Popularity: 1 flaw
  15. Popularity: 1 freedom
  16. Popularity: 1 full duplex
  17. Popularity: 2 google
  18. Popularity: 4 hack
  19. Popularity: 1 human resources
  20. Popularity: 1 ibm
  21. Popularity: 1 it
  22. Popularity: 1 law
  23. Popularity: 1 legal
  24. Popularity: 1 legislation
  25. Popularity: 1 linkedin
  26. Popularity: 1 messagelabs
  27. Popularity: 1 mobile
  28. Popularity: 1 monitor
  29. Popularity: 1 munir kotadia
  30. Popularity: 1 myspace
  31. Popularity: 1 networking
  32. Popularity: 1 norton
  33. Popularity: 1 personal details
  34. Popularity: 1 phishing
  35. Popularity: 1 platform
  36. Popularity: 1 policy
  37. Popularity: 3 privacy
  38. Popularity: 1 proxy
  39. Popularity: 1 salesforce
  40. Popularity: 1 salesforce.com
  41. Popularity: 4 security
  42. Popularity: 2 social
  43. Popularity: 2 social networking
  44. Popularity: 1 status
  45. Popularity: 1 telstra
  46. Popularity: 1 top ten
  47. Popularity: 1 virgin
  48. Popularity: 1 wall
  49. Popularity: 1 web application
  50. Popularity: 1 www_fr

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Renai LeMay Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.
  • Array Google should come clean on datacentres
    It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
  • Array US shows what OPEL could have been
    Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured