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Woman claims to have been attacked for wearing Google Glass
The scorn for glassholes has apparently now gone too far, having evolved into what might be the first violent action taken against a Glass wearer.
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Are you safe against mobile threats? Check out our tips for keeping the...
Do you use a mobile device? (Of course you do!) Read Sophos researcher Vanja Svajcer's paper, "Mobile Security Threat Report," and check out our expert tips for keeping the crooks away...
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MasterCard aims to reduce card fraud with smartphone geo-location technology
MasterCard and Syniverse are running a pilot scheme that aims to reduce credit card fraud by making sure that a customer's card and mobile phone are in the same location when the card is used.
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Google paves the way for Glass; throws lobbyists in front of...
Google has hired lobbyists in at least three US states to battle proposed restrictions on driving with headsets such as Google Glass.
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Twitter restores @N handle to its rightful owner
The software developer whose valuable @N Twitter handle was socially engineered and extorted away from him, Naoki Hiroshima, says that after more than a month, he now has his handle back.
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US Attorney General calls for unified data breach notification laws
US Attorney General Eric Holder has used his weekly video message to demanded Congress get busy developing a "strong national standard" for breach notifications in the wake of the Target and Neiman...
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Naked Security wins at the Security Blogger Awards!
To everyone who voted for us to win in this year's Security Blogger Awards in San Francisco, "Thanks!" We won! We're now officially The Blog That Best Represents The Security Industry.
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How emails can be used to track your location and how to stop it
A new Google Chrome browser extension lets email senders using Google accounts see when recipients open email, who exactly opened the email, and where the recipient is located. And sorry, but no,...
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Notorious "Gameover" malware gets itself a kernel-mode rootkit...
The Gameover botnet gang has been trying new techniques lately: most recently comes the introduction of a kernel-mode rootkit called Necurs, making the malware harder to find and remove. Senior...
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US woman wins $500K in revenge-porn suit against ex-boyfriend
In a court decision that could prompt a change in state law, a Texas woman has been awarded a half-million dollars in a civil lawsuit she brought against her ex-boyfriend for plastering nude photos on...
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SSCC 136 - Apple's "goto fail", Neiman Marcus's logfiles, and Adobe's double...
Chester ducks out of booth duties at the RSA 2014 conference in San Francisco to bring you this week's Chet Chat. From Apple's SSL bug to Adobe's second-in-a-month emergency Flash update, Chet and Duck...
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Jail time for university hacker who changed his grades to straight As
Three former Purdue University students are thought to have altered their grades by breaking into staff offices and attaching keyloggers to computers operated by class professors, possibly by replacing...
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SSCC 136.5 – RSA 2014 Conference Special: the good, the weird and the...
Paul Ducklin hooks up "live at RSA" with Chester Wisniewski and John Shier for a Conference Special podcast. Find out what was good, weird, interesting, or all of the above, at this year's RSA 2014 event!
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Facebook survives, Apple patches, and Naked Security wins! 60 Sec Security...
How harmless is that "Facebook shutting down on 29 February" hoax? Is system reimaging really a security tool? Find out this and more! 60 Sec Security - 01 Mar 2014
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Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Popular platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, aiding illegal gun sales
No questions asked. These sites aren't e-commerce sites, they're quick to remind us, but they sure make it easy for convicted criminals to set up illegal gun buys, as well as one 15-year-old who...
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Scareware pusher loses appeal against epic $163 million fine [POLL]
Kristy Ross, employee at rogue anti-virus pushers Innovative Marketing Inc., dragged her appeal against her whopping $163 million fine through the courts for years - and has lost. Do you think the fine...
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Russia Today website hackers tweak headlines, replace with word “Nazi”
The Russian news site RT.com was compromised over the weekend, replacing the words "Russian" and "Ukrainian" in some headlines with the word "Nazi".
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US girl loses her father’s $80K settlement after boasting about win on Facebook
A daughter took to Facebook to blow a raspberry at her father's former employer over a successful court settlement. The post, while being a petite thing of only 25 words, was big enough in the...
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Anatomy of an Apple theft protection bypass – and how to avoid it
A tiny but intriguing open source project entitled iCloudHacker attracted interest over the weekend. It claims to "bypass Apple's theft protection" - and although that's streching the truth a bit, it...
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