It seems like every day there’s a new story in the media about sensitive data getting in to the wrong hands. Headlines around companies or government bodies leaking a customer database or client ...

Workshare, a specialist in collaboration software built around Microsoft Office applications, is aiming to alert businesses to the danger of hidden data lurking in their documents. The company on ...

BOSTON — When the New England Journal of Medicine used a word-processing function to reveal that Merck & Co. had deleted study data about Vioxx and heart attacks, the pharmaceutical giant joined a ...

PHOENIX — As cameras and smartphones become more advanced, posting a photo online could be revealing much more than you might expect. "Hidden" metadata in photos can reveal the type of camera that was ...

Most professional photographers are familiar with the fact that their cameras embed a wealth of metadata hidden in the images they create in formats like EXIF, IPTC and XMP. This metadata typically ...

Tagging capabilities in Windows Vista have come under fire as potentially dangerous. Is metadata a threat to information security, or is this much ado about nothing?<BR><BR> Story.

Windows only: Every time you save a Microsoft word doc, Word embeds gobs of potentially embarrassing metadata in your document, meaning that when you send a document off to someone else, you may be ...

In many cases, it is important to remove metadata from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and that’s because it includes identifying information that may include such things as your full name, initials, ...

TEXTING people photos snapped on your iPhone carries a big risk unless you have THESE settings changed. That’s because your iPhone pictures contain hidden ...

For those that don't know, certain photos actually contain metadata which can be used to track where a certain photo was taken. There is, however, a new way of hiding the users' metadata location from ...