Naked Security

A malware attack cloaks its true intentions by posing as a emailed scan from a printer. Would your users click on the attachment without thinking twice?

In the face of an internet that can be controlled all too easily by corporations and regimes, activists are building alternative mesh networks that can never be blocked, filtered or shut down.

Android malware! On Facebook! Caught on camera! If you're using Facebook on your Android smartphone, you should be just as careful clicking on links as you would (hopefully) be on a desktop computer.

This week, news has emerged in Canada of a police investigation into the use of robocalling (automated phone dialling, a.k.a. voice spam) in an apparent attempt to disrupt an election result.

Paul Ducklin hosts this week's Chet Chat with the tables turned... Chet is the guest. They discussed the recent Google cookie-gate incident, House Intelligence Committee advice on using laptops while traveling and the malicious emails sent to leaked Stratfor subscriber email addresses.

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber in a sex video? Your Facebook friends may be sharing the link with you - but take a reality check, it's another survey scam.

Spam tries to sell you recordings by a popular skiffle combo - The Beatles!

The heated debate across Europe about ACTA has led the European Commission to refer the controversial agreement to the European Union's highest court.

Beware the Pink Facebook scam spreading on the social network right now.

Join in with those attending RSA 2012 and get in the running to win a NERF N-STRIKE Vulcan EBF-25. You don't have to be at the show to enter and win!

French computer crime investigators have charged two men in connection with money-making malware that targets Android smartphone users.

Did you think Twitter was just for fun? That your tweets were just harmless irrelevant mutterings into the electronic ether? You're wrong. You're taking part in a massive market-research study.

Police say that they have arrested four people, in connection with a series of Anonymous internet attacks against Spanish websites.

A grey hat hacker has discovered cross-site scripting (XSS) holes in 25 UK online stores that are certified as safe by the likes of VeriSign, Visa, and MasterCard.

Google is offering cash prizes totaling $1 million to hackers, plus a Chromebook, for those who successfully exploit its Chrome browser at the CanSecWest security conference next week.

Facebook users are sharing messages warning that children are being targeted with strawberry-flavoured crystal meth. But is there any truth in the widespread warning?

Chances are that we will see Apple announce an iPad 3 very soon. But don't be duped into believing there's an easy way to get one for free.

RSA special Chet Chat sharing Chester's and Duck's first impressions of the first day of the RSA 2012 conference in San Francisco.

Russian web users at risk as Traffbiz spreads affilate web-based malware attacks.

Host of the Mobile World Congress, the GSMA, have launched new guidelines for mobile app developers to increase transparency and trust between users and companies. Will it work?

Malware: 'Scan from a HP OfficeJet' attack spammed out widely

Activists creating decentralized mesh networks that can't be blocked, filtered or silenced

Android malware spreads via Facebook [VIDEO]

Voice spam tried to disrupt election in Ontario, Canada

SSCC 84 - Cookie-gate, laptop security advice, Stratfor malicious emails and Facebook hacker advice

Oops! Selena and Bieber's hidden camera bedroom video Facebook scam

Beatles for Sale? It's spam of the day

Controversial ACTA is referred to the European Court of Justice

The Pink Facebook rogue application and survey scam

Take on the RSA 2012 #sophospuzzle and win a NERF gun!

Suspected Android SMS malware authors arrested in Paris

Is it time to delete your old Tweets? Market researchers salivate at opening of Twitter Firehose

Police arrest four suspected Anonymous hacktivists

25 'VeriSign Trusted' shops found to have XSS holes

Google offers $1 million in exploit rewards for Chrome hacks

Strawberry Quick Meth scare spreads widely via Facebook

Free iPad 3? It doesn't exist! Beware of scams

SSCC 84.33 - RSA first impressions

Traffbiz: A new malicious twist on affiliate partnerka schemes?

New privacy guidelines for mobile app developers