European League of Legends game players have their account data compromised - PC Advisor

The compromised account data included email addresses, encrypted passwords, player names and dates of birth. No payment or billing information was exposed as a result of this security breach, Merrill and Beck said. For a small number of players, ...

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Council fined £90000 following disclosure of vulnerable children's data - Family Law Week

ICO Issues Highest Fine Yet For Data Breach
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Spam Flies Fast and Furious in the Wake of the LinkedIn Breach - TechNewsWorld

However, the ploy only works against those whose passwords weren't part of the LinkedIn data leak. The deluge of spam dropped on members of LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) last week perhaps could have been expected after a data breach at the site exposed 6.5 ...

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Eight Ways to Prevent a Data Breach - Fox Business

Despite that trend, a majority of small businesses are not taking steps to try to prevent a data or security breach, new research has found. According to the Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, organizations with between 11 and 100 ...

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Small Businesses Underestimate Impact of Data Security; C-Suite Calls for ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Large Businesses May have Document Security on Their Radars, but Both Large ...
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Great Indian Firewall soon a reality? - Independent Online

The order has resulted in access being denied to a host of websites that carry pirated films and music among other legal content, including www.isohunt.com and www.pastebin.com. On Wednesday, the Anonymous forum fired an opening shot by attacking the ...

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Toews: Online posting of gruesome video 'repugnant' - CTV.ca

When asked whether he believed it was possible for police to prosecute people who post gruesome crimes taking place on the Internet, Toews spoke of the government's efforts to update laws that oversee web content. "It's a difficult prosecution given ...

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Analysts foresee LinkedIn downfall post data breach - ITvoir

Social networking site for professionals LinkedIn has recently faced a data breach that stole passwords of 6.4 million LinkedIn users. It is worth noticing, LinkedIn, which made its stock debut last year, is a social media destination for numerous ...

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Small businesses not afraid of data breaches - Help Net Security

As the number of data breaches involving smaller businesses continues to grow, a new survey by The Hartford finds that 85 percent of small business owners believe a data breach is unlikely, and many are not implementing simple security measures to help ...

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Could the Internet Bring on a Zombie Apocalypse? - Newsweek

The alleged killer, Luka Rocco Magnotta, was a social-media 'whore,' in the words of one criminal profiler, juggling several extreme online personas and reveling in the attention until he was arrested last week at an Internet café.

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The tangled web: Use caution when posting pictures of your children - Scotsman

Since YouTube is frequently under attack for not censoring inappropriate content, or for allegedly failing to crack down on content on its site which could be seen as pornographic, however, it seems almost inevitable clips of naked children would ...

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Jane Devine: Multiple and contradictory rules don't protect children - Scotsman

When it comes to the rules in place to keep children safe, however, things are quite different. The sheer number of rules, their illogical and sometimes contradictory nature, and our fear of getting things wrong, have the potential to create a more ...

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Should Facebook allow 8-year-olds to join? - Boston Globe

A Facebook spokesperson told me in an e-mail that the company is in 'continuous dialogue' with government regulators over how to 'help parents keep their kids safe in an evolving online environment,' but added that Facebook has made no decisions on ...

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Keeping kids safe in the water - Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Keep kids safe in pools
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