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Microsoft pulls critical Patch Tuesday fix for Exchange 2013
Microsoft has had to recall an update released yesterday for Exchange Server 2013. Nothing catastrophic, but a difficult balancing act for admins considering the fixed vulnerabilities were publicly...
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Data breaches - over half are due to carelessness, says ICO
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced that the majority of data breaches in the first quarter of 2013 were due to carelessness in the way that the information was handled.
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CNN, Time and Washington Post redirect users to Syrian Electronic Army site
The Syrian Electronic Army appears to have compromised content recommendation engine Outbrain resulting in visitors to CNN, Time and The Washington Post being redirected to the hacking groups website....
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Miss Teen USA 2013 says sextortionist hacked webcam to snap bedroom photos
The FBI is investigating Wolf's claims that her webcam was hacked and that an extortionist demanded money to keep nude photos out of the public eye. She's only one of many victims, but she's turned her...
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Aussie ATM criminals embrace 3D printers for cashpoint crimes
As you can probably imagine, it didn't take long for controversial uses to emerge for 3D printers, and one of the most newsworthy was the idea of "printing" parts for firearms. Now, crooks in Sydney...
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Wait, what? Twitter is a terrorist?
Foreign Policy magazine ran an article this week that positions Twitter as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda. But isn't the magazine just shooting the messenger?
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Anatomy of a brute force attack - how important is password complexity?
Is eight characters enough for a password? If not, what about nine?
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Android randomness, Sniffer dustbins, Unpatch Wednesday, ATM skimming - 60...
How does a bug in Android put your Bitcoins at risk? Why did the City of London bin its bins? What was Unpatch Wednesday? What to do with a 3D printer after you've made your own gun? Find out in 60...
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How much security would you expect in a $60 light globe?
"Honey, why are the lights flashing 'URPWN3D' in Morse code?" If you spent a cool $60 each on light globes (bulbs) from the Apple store... ...how much security would you expect?
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LastPass password manager gets security patch against password leakage bug
Q. Why not use a password manager that can generate hard-to-guess passwords for you, and secure them with one super-password? A. But what if the password manager gets breached?
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HTTP error code 451: "Unavailable For Legal Reasons"
You're probably familiar with the number 404: "Web Page Does Not Exist." But you probably haven't heard of 451, a new proposal with an interesting etymology. Paul Ducklin takes a look...
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time! Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
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Why we should still be worried about what Google said regarding Gmail privacy
Last week a furore erupted over a statement Google made about privacy - it was widely interpreted as having said that Gmail users could have no legitimate expectation of privacy. Then Google was widely...
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LivesOn says death is no excuse to stop tweeting
The service has algorithms that will splice and dice the tweets from your live self, learn as it goes along how to sound something like pre-mortem you, and then take over, one assumes, when the zombie...
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Mark Zuckerberg's own Facebook timeline hacked by Palestinian researcher
What do you do if Facebook doesn't take your vulnerability report seriously? This security researcher decided the best way to get Facebook to listen was go right to the top - he hacked Mark...
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Microsoft predicts bleak future for XP users after patches run out
In a blog post, a senior Microsoft executive has warned users of Windows XP to get a move on and upgrade to shinier, newer versions of Windows. He warns, come April 2014, official support for XP ends...
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RSPCA has access to confidential police data and no one is checking what it...
UK police routinely pass on personal information they hold, including central criminal records and huge swathes of material held by local forces, to the RSPCA - a non-government body with no official...
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What's Wikileaks hiding in its 400GB of 'insurance' files?
Last week Wikileaks released an enormous collection of mysterious 'insurance' data on to the web. The data was released in 3 sizeable torrent files alongside a message asking the people of earth to...
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Welcome to Zmap, the "one hour turnaround" internet scanner
Scanning the whole internet has typically taken weeks or even months. Here comes Zmap, an open source scanner that aims to knock the same job on the head in less than an hour!
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Groklaw, the IT-related legal issues site, closing due to "total surveillance"
Groklaw, the US-based website that has covered IT-related legal matters for more than a decade, is to close. Founder Pamela Jones cites privacy and surveillance concerns in what she says is the site's...
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