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NASA hack blunder, doxer jailed, PAYE cybercrime, $20k iPhone prize – 60 Sec...
Why did Brazilian hackers target NASA? What happens to doxers? How much does it cost to get started in card skimming? And how much is a copy of your fingerprint worth? Watch 60 Second Security and find...
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Bank robbers pose as IT guys, rig device to slurp £1.3m from Barclays
A gang of eight is now in custody, after one of them pretended to be an IT engineer and hooked a KVM switch onto a bank computer to siphon off the funds.
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Another iOS 7 lockscreen hole opens up – call anywhere in the world for free!
Another iOS 7 lockscreen bypass has surfaced: this one lets you call anywhere in the world for free. OK, not really "for free" - someone has to pay, and that's the owner, who probably assumed that the...
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Chaos Computer Club claims to have "cracked" the iPhone 5s fingerprint sensor
The biometrics team of Germany's well-known Chaos Computer Club claims it has "cracked" Apple's Touch ID system. From a fingerprint left on glass, the team claims to have used a technique documented by...
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Monday review - the hot 28 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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Firefox burns Chrome in our trustworthy browser poll
About a month ago I asked Naked Security readers: Which web browser do you trust? Your answer was emphatic: it's Firefox, and it accrued almost twice the number of votes of its nearest rival, Google...
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LinkedIn denies hacking into users' email
No, LinkedIn most certainly does not sink its marketing fangs into users' private email accounts and suck out their contact lists - well, at least, not without users' permission - the company said over...
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Teen privacy "eviscerated" by planned Facebook changes
A coalition of US groups that advocate for teenagers is crying foul over proposed changes to Facebook policy that would rubber-stamp the use of teenagers' names, images and personal information to...
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SSCC 117 - Apple all over the news, lots of patches, browser trust and...
Episode #117 of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast is here. Chet and Duck are back, wrangling the latest security stories into an entertaining and informative quarter-hour of useful news.
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California gives teenagers an 'eraser button' to delete their web mistakes
Legislators in California are working to give teens more control over content they have posted on the web by giving them the ability to push the reset button on their social media profiles.
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Twitter button problem causes "torrent download" confusion - here's what...
A few Naked Security readers recently said, "When I read your articles, sometimes a torrent download window pops up. Is this dangerous? Should I be concerned?" Fortunately, "No, and no." Paul Ducklin...
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Facebook wants to auto-fill your credit card details - would you trust it?...
Facebook wants to PayPal-ishly handle some aspects of online payment to make our mobile checkouts simpler, but would you trust it with your credit card details?
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Siri offers the latest backdoor into your iPhone - just ask nicely!
We really didn't want to write another Apple iOS 7 story. But with reports surfacing that HAL's smooth-talking stepsister Siri lets you *talk* your way into a locked iPhone, we couldn't help it.
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Fake reviews land SEO companies in hot water
They've flooded Yelp and other consumer review sites with puffery, and now they have to pay, to the tune of $350,000.
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Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners -...
Yahoo has been recycling old email addresses to put desirable account names back into circulation, much to the delight of users like "johnsmith4737." But some new owners are receving all sorts of stuff...
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Using heartbeats as passwords to secure medical devices
It is time to start thinking of our hearts as random number generators that can serve as passwords to secure medical devices that are vulnerable to hacking, US researchers at Rice University have...
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Data-stealing botnets found in major data brokers' servers
Servers at Lexis-Nexis, Dun & Bradstreet, and Kroll Background America/HireRight show up in the dashboard of a small, effective botnet run by a service that sells vital personal information on US...
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"Mailbox" app on iPads and iPhones runs JavaScript from emails -...
Italian computer scientist Michele Spagnuolo recently wrote about what he considered a security issue in the popular iPhone and iPad email app "Mailbox." Not everyone agreed with him...
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Pot-smoking 419ers busted in hotel room crime hub
Hotel internet connections make it harder to track people down, and after police were called to investigate the smell of marijuana emanating from a South African hotel room, they discovered an advanced...
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DOJ: 'Locking its front gate' doesn't let Lavabit off the hook for search...
You can't get out of cooperating with government-ordered electronic surveillance by shutting down, any more than a business can stop police from executing a search warrant by locking its front gate,...
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