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Another 5 tips to help keep you safe on Facebook
Last month we gave you five tips to make your Facebook account safer. Here's five more tips, including how to block a person or app, how to get a one-time password to login securely from a public...
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Nokia is dead. Long live Nokia!
Microsoft is buying a large swathe of Nokia, and licensing much of the rest. Naked Security gets a touch nostalgic...
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Does posting photos of your child on Facebook make you a bad parent? [POLL]
Yesterday an article posted online suggested that putting photos and other information about your children on the internet was "robbing [them] of a digital adulthood that’s free of bias and...
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Google coding glitch locks Apple iOS users out of on-line accounts
Google has once again found itself all over the IT news for a spot of bother with its security software. A recent Google Authenticator update accidentally removed all your accounts...
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Sophos honoured with Partnership Award by Queensland Police
Earlier this week, at the Queensland Police Fraud and Corporate Crime Symposium 2013 in Australia, Sophos was honoured with a Partnership Award. Thank you, Queensland Police Service!
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Has Facebook violated its 2011 Federal Trade Commission settlement?
Privacy groups have asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to block some of Facebook's proposed policy changes. This request comes amid concerns over how user information is employed in...
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15 years jail time for Romanian card heist ringleader, 5 for light-fingered...
Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, whose gang targeted hundreds of Subway branches in the US, has been sentenced to a hefty 15 years in jail. Meanwhile a US business exec faces 5 years for stealing company data...
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Facebook privacy, Google security bug, Law Enforcement victories - 60 Sec...
Why did Facebook get into double trouble this week over privacy? Find out the answer to this and more in just 60 seconds of entertaining and informative video!
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Get ready: Microsoft Patch Tuesday looms large with 14 patches and 8 remote...
The biggie this month is a "spare no versions" Internet Explorer update. From IE 6 on Windows XP to IE 10 on Windows 8, this one hits the Patch Trifecta: critical, remote code execution, requires reboot.
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Anatomy of a phish - a "generic mass targeted attack" against WordPress admins
Naked Security reader Lisa Goodlin is a website designer and a WordPress user. She was recently targeted by cybercrooks trying to phish her WordPress credentials, and though the phish ended up being...
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Monday review - the hot 17 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Windows Picture Passwords - are they really as "easily crackable" as...
Following a USENIX paper about the security of Windows Picture Passwords, you may have read that they are "easily crackable." Paul Ducklin wondered about that, and tried to come up with a balanced view...
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Yahoo hops on transparency report bandwagon
Yahoo's first Transparency Report shows the US makes the most data requests, predictably as most Yahoo users live there. But which countries are going on fishing expeditions, asking Yahoo for data...
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Google to encrypt data "end-to-end" in effort to block NSA and other agencies
Google is stepping up efforts to toughen data encryption in an effort to limit unofficial snooping on user information in the wake of the revelations about the NSA and PRISM.
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US health care company faces giant class action suit for losing over...
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: "To lose one patient record may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose 4,000,000 looks like carelessness." How four stolen computers led to a huge class action lawsuit...
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Size doesn't matter - at least, not quite as much as smartphone privacy
A new study finds that privacy is more of a concern for smartphone users than screen size, phone brand, weight, or camera resolution. Meanwhile, 80% of users won't download apps they don't trust....
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SSCC 116 - Google Authenticator, Apple bugs, Facebook data probes, WordPress...
Here you are! Episode #116 of the Sophos Security Chet Chat. News, opinion, advice and research: Chet and Duck bring you their unique and entertaining combination of all four in their regular podcast.
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September Patch Tuesday is out - one update lost en route, 13 patches left, 8...
One of Microsoft's 14 promised patches for September failed to materialise. There's still plenty left over, though: IE gets a jumbo fix, as usual; SharePoint, FrontPage, Excel, Access, Outook and more...
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New Apple iPhone 5s to feature "Touch ID" fingerprint authentication
Apple has unveiled its latest iPhones, and, yes, there's a fingerprint scanner in the pricier model. John Hawes asks, "What could possibly go wrong?"
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Men are twice as likely to spy on their partner's phone
Mobile texting and Facebook messaging are the likeliest ways you'll get found out if you're playing around. Having a male for a partner also just about doubles the chances you'll get caught, as they're...
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