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Top tech coalition demands limits on government surveillance
A coalition of the world's leading technology companies - AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo - is asking the world's governments to reassess intelligence gathering...
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Agency spies snooped on online gaming worlds, including World of Warcraft,...
The games were so overrun with spies as of 2008, the intelligence outfits mulled a "deconfliction" group so they wouldn't collide into each other.
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Patch Tuesday December 2013 – TIFF exploit patched, XP kernel flaw not fixed yet
The updates for Microsoft's December 2013 Patch Tuesday are out. Paul Ducklin takes a brief look at what's in, and what's not.
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Man fined $183k after joining Anonymous DDoS of Koch Industries for one minute
A 38-year-old man from the US state of Wisconsin has been sentenced to two years of federal probation and will pay a $183,000 fine for taking part in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack...
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“Smarter, shadier, stealthier” – Security Threat Report 2014 helps you...
Our latest Security Threat Report is out! It's a free download (no registration required), and we think you're going to love it, because it paints a fascinating picture of the evolving threat from...
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How Twitter tracks the websites you visit, and how to stop it
Last Thursday Twitter introduced promoted tweets (ads) targeted according to the websites you've visited. It seemed like a good time to explain how Twitter is doing it, how they've used a different...
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For nearly 20 years, the launch code for US nuclear missiles was 00000000
All those complicated passwords just slow you down when all you really want to do is blast the smithereens out of something fast.
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Revenge porn operator facing charges of conspiracy, extortion and identity theft
A 27-year-old man based in San Diego, California, faces prison after being charged with 31 felonies related to the publication of 10,000 explicit photographs sent in by the victims' ex-partners.
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Credit card data stolen from hundreds of attendees at Boston conventions
The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center denies the security breach happened inside its building, while many convention-goers said they used their credit cards at shops, hotels and restaurants in...
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TeamBerserk hacktivists use US judge’s credit card to buy sex toys for him
How many sex toys, exactly, does it take to fight what the hackers see as corruption? TeamBerserk is reportedly up to 18.
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US racketeering law enters the world of cybercrime
A Las Vegas court convicted a cybercriminal under RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act) law last week, in what may well turn out to be a landmark case.
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Nude Carla Bruni pics masking Trojan lured G20 attendees to click
"Almost everybody who received the email took the bait," one government source told a news outlet. Any cognitive behavioralists out there who can tell us how to overcome the impulse to click on such a...
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Online bank thieves arrested with £80k and a grenade
Specialist explosives officers in the UK removed what they suspected might have been a live hand grenade in a Tuesday morning raid on what detectives believe is an organized ring of cyber-criminals.
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UK firms to be “encouraged” to adopt upcoming security standard
The UK government has released two reports looking at the progress of its Cyber Security Strategy so far, with details of plans going forward, including a new security standard for businesses hoping to...
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Patching by Microsoft, spoofing Google and launching nukes – 60 Sec Security...
How fast is fast enough for a patch? Should you trust the French Treasury? How many zeros launch a missile? Watch 60 Sec Security and find out!
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93% of large organisations had a security breach last year
Security breaches on small businesses are on the rise, according to a new survey commissioned by a UK government department. The report reveals the alarming scale and frequency of internal and external...
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Gmail takes image loading out of users’ hands – here’s how to take it back
Gmail's new default is to automatically display all those HTML glamour shots that marketers desperately hope we'll click on. Does this really help our privacy and security, and how can you turn it off...
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Monday review – the hot 20 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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Twitter ditches watered-down block feature after outcry
User outrage has forced the company to do an about-face on a blocking policy change that allowed blocked users to continue to follow their targets, interact with their Tweets, receive their updates in...
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18 months for supercomputer hacker, 18 years for CarderPlanet boss
It has been a busy week for cyber law enforcement this week. Two interesting sentences were handed out to a 24-year-old American hacker, as well as 49-year-old Ukrainian national Roman Vega, co-founder...
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