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Facebook pays out $20 million in personal ads settlement; each user gets $15
A US District Judge, Richard Seeborg, ruled on Monday that Facebook must pay out a total of $20 million over its Sponsored Stories adverts. The settlement is the conclusion to a class action lawsuit...
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Schools hire snoopers to monitor kids on social networks. Is it OK? [POLL]
Are you worried about what your child is up to on social media? Well, if you live in Southern California, you may have a few extra people watching your child's back.
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Secure Google Docs email results in mailbox compromise
As cloud services become more pervasive criminals continue to try and convince corporate users to surrender their identities. Google Docs is the latest target, look out.
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Reality TV mother-of-eight Kate Gosselin sues husband for “hacking” email,...
Kate Gosselin, who appeared in a reality TV docusoap about her life with her eight children, including sextuplets, is suing her husband for allegedly hacking into her personal email account, her phone...
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Anatomy of a dropped call - how to jam a city with 11 customised mobile phones
German researchers have shown how commodity mobile phones can be turned into call jammers. Worse still, their attacks could be adapted for eavesdropping and even interception, where a crook receives...
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Tor usage doubles in August. New privacy-seeking users or botnet?
The anonymising service Tor has seen a huge surge in popularity this month with the number daily users shooting up to over 1,200,000 from a fairly consistent average of 550,000 directly connected users...
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Apple neglects OS X privilege escalation bug for six months, gets Metasploit...
Six months ago, we wrote about a risky bug in the sudo command, the Unix equivalent of Run As... on Windows. The vulnerability is still unpatched on OS X, and now there's a Metasploit exploit pack to...
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Internet dating scam - mother and daughter crime duo jailed
Mother and daughter, Karen and Tracy Vasseur from Colorado, US, have been jailed for a total of 27 years after they tricked unsuspecting victims into thinking they were talking to members of the US...
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Apple apps turned upside down writing right to left - you're only 6...
Apple's iOS and OS X are currently under what can only be described as a "jolly irritating attack." Certain text strings, when processed by the operating system's CoreText rendering engine, cause the...
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Facebook to include profile photos in its facial recognition database?
Building on its use of facial recognition, Facebook has highlighted how it plans to use members' profile pictures as an identification tool to allow their friends to tag them in photos.
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Facebook transparency, Apple bugs, SEA DDoSes itself - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Which country came top of Facebook's new "Government Requests" report aimed at outing the countries that fish for Facebook user data the most? (I bet you're thinking it's the USA - but it isn't.) Watch...
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Leak of kids' social services info earns Aberdeen City Council £100k fine
Aberdeen City Council has been hit with a £100,000 fine after an employee took sensitive files home and accidentally uploaded them to a public website. The data included information on vulnerable...
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Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days with our handy roundup.
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US Army ignores shared PC login flaw, asks soldiers to keep quiet
A soldier was allegedly made to sign a non-disclosure agreement by the US Army after pointing out a security flaw which allowed accounts on shared PCs to be accessed without proper authentication.
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Facebook vulnerability that allowed any photo to be deleted earns $12,500 bounty
An engineer has discovered a vulnerability in Facebook that could have allowed for any photo on the site to be deleted without the owner's knowledge.
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Cyberextortion by US gov, or simple P2P security lapse by medical firm?
Company X leaks data. Company Y finds data. Y shills for security work. X refuses. Y tells the FTC. FTC asks X to explain. X says Y is unobjective. FTC asks X to explain, no ifs and buts. X writes a...
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Twitter makes good on promise to make abuse reports easier and more obvious
The combination of Twitter's short messages, high volumes and "always logged in" style of use makes abusive Tweets a real problem. Now, thanks to a public pressure petition, it's easier to do something...
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Database of illegal downloaders - are British ISPs to become the "music NSA"?
The major UK broadband providers are being asked to create a database of customers who illegally download films, music and other protected content from the internet.
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Lawyers report steep rise in employee data theft cases
UK law firm EMW has reported a sharp rise in confidential data theft cases brought before the High Court. Is that because data control is becoming laxer, or actually because things are tightening up so...
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Faces, gestures, heartbeats - how will the passwords of the future work?
Researchers regularly come up ideas to replace passwords. Will any of them ever become the new standard for authentication? Are we going to be stuck with passwords forever, or is there a brighter...
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