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SSCC 125 – Happy hour, forward secrecy, $300 extortions and LG unreprentant...
Chet and Duck dig into the good and bad of the week's news, from the amusing "Happy Hour Virus", through Twitter's implementation of forward secrecy, to LG's data-grabbing TVs and the company's...
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Bitcoin online bank robbery - "because that's where the money is"
Paul Ducklin looks why hackers are more than merely interested in online Bitcoin repositories - and why you need more than just a hunch about a repository's trustworthiness before you hand over your...
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WikiLeaks's Julian Assange unlikely to face charges
US officials certainly don't like that he published top-secret documents, but they say that legally, he hasn't committed a crime - at least, not that they've determined so far. They've refrained from...
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Activists to Google: You could end Chinese internet censorship in 10 days
Eric Schmidt said recently that encrypting everything can end government censorship in a decade. Activists battling China's Great Firewall say why wait, when we just did it in a fraction of the time?
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Only 24% of Europeans use different passwords for different websites
According to a large-scale survey which questioned over 27,000 people across the European Union on their internet use, security attitudes and experiences, many are put off using online services by the...
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Blizzard Entertainment concludes its data breach investigation - fifteen...
15 months ago, we reported on a data breach at online entertainment company Blizzard. We were complimentary back then, not least because the company owned up within three days. Blizzard's follow-up,...
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87% of SMBs suffered a cyberattack last year, only 44% see security as a...
The risk of cyberattacks on SMBs has been examined in detail in a recent Sophos-sponsored report by the Ponemon Institute. The report - The Risk of an Uncertain Security Strategy - surveyed over 2,000...
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Google admits that forcing G+ on YouTube users has increased spam
Google's recent decision to revamp YouTube's comment system by integrating Google+ in order to reduce spam has proven to be extremely unpopular with users. Ironically, however, it has proven to be...
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Microsoft warns of zero-day XP kernel bug being exploited in the wild
Microsoft has gone public to warn about a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows XP kernel. Full details are still to be released, as it isn't patched yet, but here's what we know so far...
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Bitcoin millionaire throws $7.5m virtual currency in the bin
When it comes to electronic devices, bad things do happen. Components fail, power outages do occur, files can be accidentally deleted... oh and millions of dollars worth of Bitcoins can be chucked in...
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Drupal security update fixes a laundry list of problems, including...
The Debian Linux security team recently pushed out a wry security advisory for popular web CMS Drupal. In amongst the laundry list of fixes was a common modern malady - non-cryptographic random numbers...
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Computer Security Day, Forward secrecy, XP 0-day and YouTube spam – 60 Sec...
When is Computer Security Day? What can forward secrecy do for you? Can you believe there's an 0-day in XP? Have some fun finding out the answers in this week's 60 Second Security!
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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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Dutch banks set common rules for online banking. But have they gone far enough?
Dutch banks have agreed on a common framework of rules for their online banking customers, which they will require people to follow if they are to qualify for refunds of money stolen through phishing,...
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SSCC 126 – Zero-day, Bitcoins, passwords and randomness [PODCAST]
Turn bad news into good with "what you can do better" advice from Chet and Duck. Learn from: an XP zero-day, a spate of Bitcoin "bank robberies," the outcome of a European user security survey, and yet...
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From Cyber Monday to Christmas shopping, ’tis the season to be careful
At this time of year, as we search for Cyber Monday bargains and prepare for Christmas, it is rather tempting to enjoy the comfort of shopping from our own homes and not have to battle the seasonal...
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Privacy is alive! Seattle eatery tells Google Glass user where to stick his...
If you follow technology gossip, you probably saw the fuss kicked up last week by a Seattle resident called Nick Starr, who went into a local 24-hour diner wearing Google Glasses. Briefly put, the...
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Proposed Canadian cyber law – anti-bullying or pro-snooping?
Proposed legislation referred to as the "Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act" is said to be aimed at preventing cyber-bullying, but does this law go too far?
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Online clothing store Witchery lets customers view – and edit! – each other’s...
According to a News Limited report, customers visiting clothing retailer Witchery's mobile website were able to get at the PII of other users via a feature called "track my order." Customers could also...
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Cloned Facebook accounts hit up friends with spam and money requests
The scam hit a TV news station in the US, with attackers scraping photos from reporters' profiles and using them on bogus accounts taken out under their victims' names. Using those fake accounts, they...
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