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Google loses appeal in Wi-Fi data grab case
A US appeals court has upheld a previous decision from a district court that ruled Google violated wiretap laws when it collected personal data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010.
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Rudest man in Linuxdom rants about randomness - "We actually know what we are...
Yet more "NSA cracked my crypto" conspiracy, and this time, the rudest man in Linuxdom is in the thick of it!
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It's not up to Google to stop child abuse, says expert
The former head of Britain's online child protection agency says the government's recent moves to protect children online are "nonsensical," that simply searching for a given term doesn't turn somebody...
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Adobe has Patch Tuesdays, too - a reader reminds us!
Naked Security reader Haemish Edgerton just gave us a very polite but effective scolding for neglecting to mention the Adobe fixes that came out on Tuesday. Point taken, so here's a table of what Adobe...
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Should employees be punished for sloppy cyber security? [POLL]
Should they be held accountable for their scam-email-opening ways? Should we tell them off at assessment time, brand them with a mark of shame, or, just maybe, a third option: invest a bit more in...
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WordPress issues security fixes, advises "update your sites immediately"
Mega-popular blogging and content management system WordPress has just put out version 3.6.1. This includes a patch for a remote code execution hole, so you are advised to update ASAP.
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Police probe second news group over phone hacking
Police are investigating yet another British newspaper group in the phone hacking scandal that was brought to us courtesy of the now-defunct News of the World and its parent company News International.
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57% of college students think their Facebook postings aren't vile at ALL!
Too bad that 69% of recruiters report finding candidates whom they wouldn't let step through the door, thanks to social media evidence of drinking, drugs, bad-mouthing previous employers, lying on...
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Would you believe it? Women more in favour of porn filters than men
75% of UK women support their government's proposals to make internet porn 'opt-in', compared to 43% of men, according to a new survey from market research company Kantar.
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12 arrested as UK cops foil Santander bank heist plot
London Metropolitan Police are holding 12 men in connection with a scheme to access computers at Santander, one of the UK's largest banks.
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Apple ships OS X 10.8.5 security update - fixes "sudo" bug at last
Officially, it's a point release of OS X Mountain Lion. But with twice as many security fixes listed as regular bug fixes and improvements, Paul Ducklin is happy calling it a "security update" instead...
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Facebook realities, OS X patched, Yahoo! CEO security! shocker! - 60 Sec...
How realistic are you about your Facebook posts? Why should you encrypt your hard disks? Why doesn't the Yahoo! CEO use a passcode on her phone? Watch this week's 60 Second Security and find out!
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Microsoft endures Patch Horror Day on Friday 13th - issues updates to 8 of 13...
Friday the Thirteenth turned into Patch Horror Day for Microsoft. Redmond release engineers waited to see if they had solved the problems that required eight out of 13 security patches to be reissued...
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Anonymous hacker @ItsKahuna sentenced to 3 years for hacking police sites
John Anthony Borell III, aka "@ItsKahuna", admitted to attacking a slew of police sites in an operation that included exposing the personal details of thousands.
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Apple's "Touch ID" fingerprint login - not everyone is cock-a-hoop about it
A US lawyer has offered the opinion that Apple's new fingerprint authentication might end up eroding a long-cherished legal right. If you're not willing to remember a passcode, you may have to give up...
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Monday review - the hot 24 stories of the week
Missed anything last week? Catch up with everything we talked about with our weekly roundup.
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"Stop spy on us!" 14 NASA sites hacked
Hacker BMPoC posted a deface page and message on all 14 hacked NASA websites that link their attack to possible US military intervention in Syria, as well as to US spying on Brazil.
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Snowden outs NSA's "Follow The Money" international banking spies
Information leaked by NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, shows that surveillance of Visa and SWIFT financial transactions was carried out by a branch of the NSA known as "Follow The Money" (FTM).
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PWN2OWN for mobile devices – $300,000 in prizes for stealing data,...
There's $300,000 up for grabs at HP's Mobile Pwn2Own contest to be held in Tokyo in November 2013. Paul Ducklin runs through the options of how to get your hands on the cash...
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Oracle Java fails at security in new and creative ways
Oracle is about to release a new "feature" in its Java Runtime Environment (JRE) that allows enterprises (or anyone else) to turn off security features for backward compatibility.
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