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LinkedIn's iPhone 'Intro' tool goes outro
LinkedIn's email plug-in for Apple iOS, designed to suction LinkedIn profile information and insert it into emails received on phones, was destined for a short life and a load of criticism.
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NYPD tests Google Glass as they mull becoming Robocops
Just by looking at suspects, police could instantly check out their arrest records, mugshots and other key information. Of course, they could also record everything and everybody they see, regardless...
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Flappy Bird really *is* dead - beware of infected fakes that promise to keep...
News about celebrities to do with births, deaths and marriages often prove to be handy hooks for cybercrooks. So when the ultra-popular game Flappy Bird was withdrawn recently, the crooks wasted no...
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Is 11 Feb 2014 The Day We Fight Back?
Appalled with government surveillance without oversight? Sick of having your privacy invaded? Numb from stories about the NSA? If you are, you'll have had many more bad days than good since June 2013....
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Safer Internet Day: don't be an online sheep - our Top 10 Tips help you think...
Today is Safer Internet Day, aimed at helping youngsters to enjoy the internet without putting themselves at risk. So here are our Top 10 Tips. Don't be a sheep and just follow the defaults - it's OK...
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Internet Explorer, .NET, IPv6 and Shockwave top the February 2014 Patch...
February's patch roundup sees seven patches from Microsoft and one from Adobe. All supported versions of Windows are impacted, be sure to update as soon as possible.
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Facebook knows the likely religion of your Valentine's Day snuggle-bunny
Jedis tend to marry outside their faith (It's really hard to find somebody who's a good midi-chlorians fit). Sikhs and Muslims are quite unlikely to do so. Just two of Facebook's conclusions in the...
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SSCC 134 - Patching, foisting, hacking and obfuscating [PODCAST]
Here's our latest security podcast, featuring Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin. Join the dynamic duo as they turn the latest news into a quarter-hour podcast that is informative,...
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Please vote for Naked Security in the 2014 Security Blogger Awards!
Naked Security is up for an award as "The Blog That Best Represents The Security Industry" at the 2014 Security Blogger Awards. If you'd like to see us win, please vote for us!
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Revamping an old technology to go where GPS signals cannot reach
Illegal GPS jammers, sold cheap online, can endanger space stations and ship navigation, not to mention potentially preventing emergency calls or keeping rescue teams from homing in on injured people....
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Silk Road-alike "Utopia" dark-net market seized by Dutch police
It was meant to rival Silk Road, which the US FBI shut down in October and which sold the same type of merchandise: drugs, firearms, stolen bank account information and forged identity documents.
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Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes, spills 1M user records - here's what you...
The SEA made off with more than a million records from the Forbes user database - perhaps including yours! - and published them online. We already "cracked" a quarter of the Forbes staffer's...
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Kickstarter breached - change your passwords
Hackers gained unauthorised access to crowdfunding site kickstarter.com earlier this week. Compromised details include usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers and password hashes....
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Forbes Hack password shootout: Gmail vs Yahoo vs Hotmail vs AOL - whose users...
Which webmail service has the smartest users? And are they getting smarter over time? Paul Ducklin tries to use the password data from the Forbes hack to find the answers...
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Monday review - the hot 22 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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Silk Road 2.0 emptied out by a hole in its Bitcoin pocket
With three other Silk Road copycat sites having run off with users' funds since the original Silk Road was shut down, the dark web is turning into a glum place to shop for drugs, firearms and forged IDs.
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NSA: Edward Snowden had help
The NSA claimed in a recent document that Edward Snowden pulled a fast one on at least one fellow NSA employee in order to gain access to the classified documents he's gone on to leak - or gush, as the...
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Google acquires sound authentication start-up SlickLogin
Just five months after the company's launch, SlickLogin has announced its acquisition by Google. The Israeli security start-up has developed a method of authenticating your smartphone using an...
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South Korea punishes three credit card firms over data heist
South Korean regulators have fined three credit card companies and banned them from issuing new credit cards for three months in the wake of the country's largest-ever data theft.
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Target told to carry out security review just months before breach
Former employees and others familiar with the breach investigation said at least one analyst recommended a thorough security review prior to Target's upgrading its payment system. Did the review...
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