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Facebook is being sued for intercepting users’ communications
Users Campbell and Hurley have accused Facebook of misleading the public by calling its internal messaging system 'private'. The company scans users’ private messages for URLs and can make a public...
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Snapchat praises itself over giant phone number carelessness
On New Year's Day we wrote about a giant phone number leak from controversial photosharing site Snapchat. The company has officially commented now...just don't expect the word "Sorry."
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Online games Steam and Origin fall as gamers ring in New Year DDoS-ing
Gamers have come up with a new game this week: DDoS games that their targets like to play. Scores of games fell flat on their faces.
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OpenSSL website defacement – it wasn’t a HYPERVISOR HACK after all
OpenSSL, the widely-used open source cryptographic library, had its website defaced. Early stories may have told you that it was a "hypervisor hack," which sounds like serious trouble, but it wasn't...
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Dead donkeys, gun wielding penguins and the Internet Worm at 25 – 60 Sec...
The big stories of 2013 were Adobe, PRISM and CryptoLocker - but what about some of the wackier stuff? Google's dead donkey? The Space Station lost and found? Gun wielding penguins? All this and more...
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Monday review - the hot 11 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time! Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
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Watch out! Facebook is NOT closing in March - please don't spread the hoax!
It's the first calendar quarter of the year, and with February and March on the visible horizon, we're seeing the annual reappearance of "Facebook is closing" hoaxes. Even if you think they're funny,...
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Rapper 50 Cent faces lawsuit for posting sex video without permission
The performer said he posted the video - which received close to 4 million views and which the woman said nearly drove her to suicide - to get back at a rival rapper who was "disrespecting" him.
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Should we care if over a million schoolkids have been fingerprinted?
A study released last week claims that as many as 1.28 million schoolchildren in the UK may have had their fingerprints taken by their school authorities last year, with over 30% of those schools not...
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"Followup phish" targets possible victims of last month's JP Morgan Chase...
Here's a brief reminder of how cybercriminals use real security disasters to cause follow-up disasters of their own. This time, it's a "followup phish" aimed at JP Morgan Chase customers...
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Secretive US spy court once again OKs NSA phone record collection
The secretive spy court that OKs the US National Security Agency's (NSA's) snooping once again gave the agency a thumbs-up to keep collecting phone records in the midst of recent, conflicting court...
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SSCC 129 - Hypervisors, apologies, backdoors and Twitter hacks [PODCAST]
Chet and Duck look at the security stories that made the headlines over New Year 2013/2014 - from the OpenSSL "hypervisor hack" that wasn't, to the Skype Twitter breach that shouldn't have happened -...
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Cop installs keylogger on his wife's sensitive work computer, gets probation....
A man decides to snoop on his wife's online activity to see if she's being unfaithful by attaching a hardware keylogger to her PC. He goes after her work machine which is used for sensitive court work,...
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Have we seen the end of the ZeroAccess botnet?
Since Microsoft took positive action against the ZeroAccess botnet at the beginning of December, SophosLabs has been paying close attention to see if the owners would attempt to revitalise the botnet...
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Man and woman admit to trolling journalist behind Jane Austen bank note
The pair were charged in December with making the threats, and now they've confessed. One of them said she was drunk and bored when she sent the tweets, described the threats as "empty", and said she...
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Facebook is a bad way to rate potential employees, study finds
Call it joie de vivre, or, perhaps, joie de postings, but many of us have the tendency to use social media to promote our potentially drunken, boss-bashing, and/or controversial selves.
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New Year’s #sophoscrossword 2013/2014: And the winners are…
Well done to everyone who tried the New Year's #sophoscrossword! Here are the answers, the solvers, the winners, and - just to spice up the competition for next time - there's a "by country"...
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Cyber-bullying is on the rise, but so is cyber-counselling, says report
In a report released today, the UK service Childline reports an 87% increase over last year in children and young people seeking help after suffering cyber-bullying. It also reports that, for the first...
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82% of enterprise Mac users not getting security updates
Apple users are updating to OS X Mavericks in large numbers, but not fast enough. Corporate users in particular have been slow to upgrade, which could have serious security implications.
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Malware suspected in Japanese nuclear plant control room – but don’t panic
The control centre of a nuclear power plant really doesn't sound like the sort of place you'd want to see a malware infection, but don't fret - this was no Stuxnet.
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