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Has Facebook got your mobile number? Now your friends do too.
Facebook users are discovering they have been sharing their phone numbers with other users in surprising ways. Is this the idea of openness you had when you added your mobile phone number to Facebook?...
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LinkedIn 'does a Facebook' - your name and photo used in ads by default
As a non-user of LinkedIn, I haven't been tracking changes to the default privacy settings of the service, or the implications of those changes. Neither, it seems, has most of the rest of the world....
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More BlackBerry image problems: RIM warns of BES security vulnerabilities
RIM warns that a number of vulnerabilities have been found in its enterprise software (known as BlackBerry Enterprise Server, or BES). If left unpatched, they could be exploited by malicious hackers....
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LinkedIn responds quickly to complaints about 'social ads'
Yesterday, we invited our readers to complain to LinkedIn about its new opt-out 'social ads' feature. LinkedIn has already responded publicly, which is a great result - for you and for LinkedIn. Read...
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Hong Kong stock exchange attacked for second day in a row
For the second day straight the HKEx news web site has been DDoSed, resulting in problems for the stock exchange. The chief executive today announced plans to avoid further disruptions to the market....
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Twitter finally released a "Stalkers" app? No, it's a phishing scam
Twitter finally released an app that tracks your "Stalkers"? The truth is that it's a phishing attack designed to steal your username and password. Read more…
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The MySpace puppies hack that wasn't
Visitors to MySpace were greeted by an unusual message today - but it wasn't the result of a malicious hacker attack. Read more…
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SSCC 70 - Patch Tuesday, insulin pump hacking, Android patching, ChromeOS...
Vanja Svajcer joins Chester Wisniewski to discuss the papers and demos they attended at last week's Black Hat and DEFCON conferences. Topics covered include Android patch cycles, Fixing the SSL CA...
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Pictures of Osama Bin Laden phishing attack hits Twitter users
Phishers are once again on the prowl for unsuspecting Twitter users, tempting their prey with the promise of pictures of Osama Bin Laden. Read more…
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Macbooks, Korea, Spamford busted, phones lost, Anonymous threat - 60 Sec...
No, the headline isn't a misprint. 90 Second News is now 60 Second Security! Lots of readers said they'd like to see our 'news-with-a-conscience' videos more than once a month. So here you go. 60...
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SSL authenticity evolution
After attending the annual GrrCON in Grand Rapids, Michigan I thought I would share my thoughts on the keynote address delivered by Moxie Marlinspike. Moxie detailed the problems with the existing...
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Flashback Mac Trojan poses as Adobe Flash update, opens backdoor
Mac users are once again being reminded to keep their anti-virus software up-to-date, following the discovery of a Trojan horse that poses as an update to Adobe Flash.
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Firefox 7 security fixes, http vs https and data collection
Mozilla has released Firefox 7, the latest incarnation of their popular web browser. Recently Firefox has been getting through new version numbers faster than a fat man chasing a ice cream van.
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Not the real Firefox 7 website - be wary of Google's search results
If you're keen to download Firefox 7, please make sure that you download it from the correct website. Good advice as someone steals second place for "Firefox 7" in Google's search results.
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Names and addresses of 25,000 police officers published by Anonymous cell
Police officers are once again finding their names, dates of birth and home addresses have been published on the web. Meanwhile, over half a million customers of a health insurance company have their...
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Amazon Kindle Fire's Silk browser sounds privacy alarm bells
Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire tablet today, including a new accelerated web browser Silk. Can making the web faster threaten our privacy?
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GrrCON: Visualizing data to make sense of security
The quantity of data confronting us often makes it difficult to analyze and determine what's important. I recently saw a presentation using an Arduino to display real time network traffic that helped...
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Don't fight cybercrime on your own - do it with Synergy!
Next week, I'll be talking at the Identity and Hi-Tech Crime Symposium 2011 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. There's still time for last-minute registrations at the event, so if you're in the...
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Microsoft's botnet shutdown won't stop Mac malware
After Microsoft's shutdown of the Kelihos botnet on Monday some suggested it would slow down Mac malware purveyors. While the shutdown of the botnet and the cz.cc domain will help, it's only temporary.
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Windows 8 anti-virus has a long way to go
When testing the included unmanaged anti-virus in Windows 8 I ran across an odd quirk. It doesn't detect EICAR properly. I present my results and what to expect in this article.
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