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Anonymous Yelp reviewers must be outed, US court rules
A US court in the state of Virginia has ruled that anonymous users aren't covered by First Amendment protection of free speech if a review "is based on a false statement".
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Patch Tuesday February 2014 – Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle
Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle have all released fixes today. Products covered include Microsoft Word, Windows XP, Windows 7, Adobe Reader, Java, MySQL and VirtualBox.
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Google pays $3.2 billion for Nest, a smart-home gadget maker
The money gets Google the keys to our smart homes. Nest is, after all, plugged into the internet of all things with its smart thermostats and smoke alarms. The question now is, Say WHAT? Does that mean...
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And the results of our “How trustworthy is Facebook” poll are…
As we reported recently, Facebook wants to know how trustworthy its users find it, but it's not sharing the results. So we ran our own poll of how many people trust Facebook and hereby present the...
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Who’s to blame for security problems? Surveys say, EVERYONE
So if everyone is to blame, should we all be doing a bit more to help?
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Is your car spying on you?
According to a recent report from the US GAO, car makers and GPS manufacturers have been collecting information about drivers' whereabouts via on-board navigational aids and then storing that data for...
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Security warnings do better if they use scammers’ tricks, research finds
Researchers at University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory actually modeled their security warnings on scammers' messages in their research, using techniques such as authoritative voice and clear...
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Target issues apology letter – but includes some awful security advice
A Naked Security reader just received Target's advisory letter saying she'd been part of the recent breach. But she didn't find it as clear as perhaps it could have been. Paul Ducklin takes a look...is...
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Businesses are building shopper profiles based on sniffing phones’ WiFi
Location analytics companies are using consumers' phones to create portraits of people's habits as they go about their daily lives, whether that includes visits to nightclub, gyms, doctors' offices or...
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Apple slapped over shabby sales security in the App Store
Apple is understandably proud of the App Store - it has made lots and lots of money, with more or less no malware. But not everyone has been entirely happy with Cupertino's acumen in application...
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Jailed terrorist gets extra time for refusing to divulge USB stick password
A British man already in jail for terrorist activity was given another 4 months for refusing to give police the password to a memory stick that they couldn't crack. The convicted terrorist suddenly got...
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Microsoft breathes a tiny bit of life back into XP - but still says, "Time to...
Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP will keep on going until June 2015. Is this a signal from Microsoft that it's OK to keep using XP past the April 2014 "end of support" deadline?
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NSA sweeps up hundreds of millions of text messages daily
The National Security Agency (NSA) collects around 200 million text messages from around the world every day, according to the latest revelations from Edward Snowden.
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Oracle and Java, Apple and the FTC, Google and privacy – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Why was this month's Java update a "must patch"? Should in-app purchases be allowed to target children? Is it a good idea to give Google control of your home? Find out in 60 Second Security for 18 Jan...
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Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week
Make sure you're up to date with everything we wrote in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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International webcam child abuse ring uncovered by routine police visit
Law enforcers have busted an international crime group centered in the Philippines that arranged, and profited from, the live sexual abuse of children via webcam.
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Obama calls for change to NSA’s bulk phone record collection
The US president didn't call for the end of the massive data collection. Rather, he's shuffling the data to an as-yet unspecified third party, and adding more layers between the data and intelligence...
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Starbucks admits “your security is incredibly important”, updates...
Starbucks got into and out of privacy trouble in over the past week. The brouhaha started when a US security researcher publicly reported a rather serious data leakage problem in the Starbucks iOS...
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Why aren’t we learning long-term lessons from security disasters?
Shouldn't we be thinking further ahead, developing new protocols, processes and technologies that don't stick a hasty patch over the latest problem, but push us towards a world where whole categories...
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Feds seize Silk Road’s $28 million Bitcoin wallet
Currently valued at $900 each, the value of Bitcoins may drop after the auctioning off of Silk Road's 29,655 Bitcoins. Founder Ross Ulbricht may yet get to keep his own stash of 144,336 Bitcoins if he...
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