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Hacker Guccifer’s latest star-studded data bounty included script for...
He/she/they could have, but didn't, publish the script for the fourth-season finale. An archive of the hacker's targets show a dizzying array of entertainers, writers, and government and military...
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Sophos Techknow – Understanding Botnets [PODCAST]
Botnets, short for "robot networks", are more than just malware: they're the money making machinery of modern cybercriminals. Paul Ducklin and James Wyke help you to understand the What, How and Why of...
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Stalker-friendly app, NameTag, uses facial recognition to look you up online
Smartphone and Google Glass wearers using the new app will be able to act as a real-time online search that pairs facially recognized images with social media profiles and other online photos and content.
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Snapchat blurts out the S-word
Team Snapchat, as it calls itself, has finally used the S-word in connection with the 4,600,000 phone numbers plundered from its databases last week.
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Teenage white-hat hacks site, reports security hole, gets reported to police
The site, Australia's Public Transport Victoria, didn't respond, so the 16-year-old hacker's next move was to report it to the media, who in turn contacted PTV, who in response reported him to the...
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Yahoo makes good on its promise to enable HTTPS by default for Yahoo Mail
Yahoo, following the lead of Google and Microsoft, has now enabled HTTPS encryption for all Yahoo Mail users by default.
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How secure is your network? Take the test...
Are you responsible for IT security in your company? Do you know how safe your network really is? Sophos has developed a test to help you find out just how protected you are.
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Just how secure is that mobile banking app?
Security researcher Ariel Sanchez recently published a fascinating report on the sort of security you can expect if you do your internet banking on an iPhone or iPad. The answer, sadly, seems to be,...
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Snapchat, Yahoo, Mavericks and T-shirts – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How long does it take a trendy cloud company to apologise? Do you really need HTTPS for webmail? OS X Mavericks - should you stay or should you go? And who won our crossword competition? 60 Second...
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Target’s data breach MUCH bigger than first thought – now more than...
US megaretailer Target is having a tough time of it. Having said that, so are its customers - and even, as it now turns out, many of its non-customers, too. Target has now joined companies like Adobe...
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Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we wrote in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Half of UK people are not protecting themselves online, says government
People are not doing enough to protect themselves online, according to the UK government, who have today launched a new £4 million campaign to help raise awareness of cyber security issues.
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Target admits “there was malware on our point-of-sale registers”
The Target data breach story has turned into a bit of a bus: it's big, has lots of momentum, and three just came along at once. First: 40M payment card details stolen. Second: 70M names, addresses and...
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Hacker hijacked YouTube channels to milk AdSense for money
A US man, Matthew A. Buchanan, has admitted that he and his accomplices jimmied open YouTube accounts via Google's password recovery process. They also hacked AOL email, right on up to the inbox of the...
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How your social media activity can torpedo your loan application
Financial institutions are increasingly scrutinizing our friend networks, our LinkedIn employment status and even what type of phone we're using and where we're calling from to assess whether they...
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Payment data hacked at US luxury retailer Neiman Marcus
Hot on the heels of the massive Target data breach, retail group Neiman Marcus has confirmed a mid-December security breach and that an undisclosed number of payment cards have been compromised.
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Patch Tuesday – get ready for the January 2014 Security Trifecta!
In January 2014, Patch Tuesday coincides for Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft. Here's what you'll be up against in the opening fixture of the 2014 Patching Season...
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SEA hijacks Microsoft Twitter accounts, Xbox support blog and Technet
The Syrian Electronic Army explains that its weekend pouncing was motivated by Microsoft's alleged monitoring of email accounts and selling of data for the US and other governments. The group promises...
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SSCC 130 – Botnets, banking, breaches, patching and the Mavericks controversy...
What's the best way to deal with botnets? Should you use your bank's mobile app? Why all these data breaches? What about Patch Tuesday? Do you really *have* to update your Mac to Mavericks? Listen as...
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UK government urges small businesses to become more “cyber streetwise”
Hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement that it's launched a new £4 million campaign to help raise awareness of cyber security issues, the UK government has today urged SMEs to get more clued-up...
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