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LG Smart TVs phone home with viewing habits and USB file names
A UK blogger, known only as 'DoctorBeet', has discovered that his LG Smart TV has been sending data about his family’s viewing habits back to the South Korean manufacturer.
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Anti-Bullying Week 2013: Understanding cyber-bullying
In this first of two articles to support Anti-Bullying Week, national coordinator, Luke Roberts, explains how teasing becomes cyber-bullying, why it’s so prolific and how we should tackle it.
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GitHub users with weak passwords – you have been warned!
GitHub, one of the world's biggest online repositories of software source code, is warning users to jolly well shape up when it comes to login security. Of course, GitHub isn't saying it quite like...
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Hack of online dating site Cupid Media exposes 42 million plaintext passwords
Guess how many times "123456" was used as a password by users. If you answered "close to 2 million times," you win! Now guess which online dating site service has decided to encrypt customer records...
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Security pros: If Healthcare.gov hasn’t been hacked already, it will be soon
Four cyber security experts have delivered to the US Congress a unanimous opinion: Americans shouldn't use HealthCare.gov, given its security issues.
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SSCC 124 – CryptoLocker continues, RIP Mavis Batey, Loyaltybuild BAD,...
Can you believe that a brand loyalty company would take two weeks to tell its loyal customers their data had been stolen? Oh, and that it wasn't encrypted, either? What does this tell us about...
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Anti-Bullying Week 2013: Advice for parents on cyber-bullying
In support of Anti-Bullying Week, national coordinator, Luke Roberts, gives advice for parents in spotting signs of cyber-bullying, what to do when your child is the bully, and how best to help your...
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Spam from an anti-virus company claiming to be a security patch? It’s...
A spam campaign that seems to originate from a whole raft of different security and anti-virus companies... ...is actually an effort to trick to into installing a new variant of Zbot/Zeus onto your...
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New Snowden docs reveal secret deal that let NSA spy on innocent Britons
The UK in 2007 gave the go-ahead to the US National Security Agency (NSA) to snoop on innocent Britons not suspected of any wrongdoing, new documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden show.
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“Catch me if you can”, alleged burglar posts on Facebook – so they did, in 5...
That might be his last Facebook posting for some time.
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FTC fights the cybercrooks who put CryptoLocker to shame
Is CryptoLocker, with its $300 extortion, the most cynical and odious cybercrime on the go at the moment? Paul Ducklin wonders...
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Have you heard of the Happy Hour virus?
Created by an advertising agency in Boulder, Colorado, the web-borne Happy Hour Virus lets you deliberately simulate a security problem in order to leave work early. Paul Ducklin stayed back late to...
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LG TVs grab data, GitHub attacked, vBulletin breached – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How honest is your TV? Why do crooks like source code hacks? Should you brag when you publish a breach notification? Find out now in 60 Second Security.
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Twitter joins the “forward secrecy” club for added resistance to surveillance
Twitter is the latest high-traffic social networking site to announce that it has added an extra layer of protection known as "forward secrecy" to its web servers. And the company didn't say...
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Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
In case you missed anything last week, here's a roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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LG decides its TVs *don’t* steal personal information – “viewing info” isn’t...
The story of LG's "data stealing" TVs continues to twist and turn, with LG now on its third version of what happened, and why. LG is sorry for the confusion caused by reports of problems, but not for...
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Facebook reveals friends list even when it’s set to private
Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery that...
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Great Firewall of China bypassed by cloud mirrors
Activists have uploaded mirrored copies of blocked sites to cloud hosting services, challenging China to block major brands like Amazon and Google cloud hosting, or allow freer access to banned...
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Tech firms way behind the curve on handling cybersecurity
A study by risk analysis firm BitSight reveals US financial companies are best protected from cyberattacks, followed by the energy and retail sectors, while tech firms are left trailing.
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Hackers trot off with RacingPost.com customer records
Aaaaaaaaand they're OFF! Encrypted (unsalted? unhashed?!) passwords are out of the gate, heading into the first turn toward potential decryption by cybercrooks. Anybody care to place bets on how many...
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