Data Security

WhatsApp added another layer of protection for users in late 2016, quietly introducing a new feature that encrypts messages and contacts when uploading this data to Apple's iCloud servers, according to a Forbes report.

At least 27 subscribers of Guardian Soulmates reported that details from their site profile were incorporated into explicit spam messages they received.

In this video interview Josh Pyorre, security researcher at OpenDNS, discusses his approach to detecting threats.

The Flowers website of Debenhams, the U.K.'s largest department store chain (in outlet numbers), was hit with a breach.

Ontario, Canada mistakenly exposed thousands of residents' personal information after printing the wrong addresses on individuals' health card renewal forms, causing them to be sent to strangers, according to the Ottawa Citizen.

Celebgate hackers have hit another WWE star this time leaking nude images of four-time women's champion Charlotte Flair.

The issuance of the DBIR has become an industry event of sorts, giving people the opportunity to carefully examine and argue the finer points against that which they see in their environments.