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Yik Yak banned as schools grapple with toxic anonymous social chat
Some Chicago schools have banned the location-based mobile app, causing the developers to turn it off throughout the city as they seek a way to keep it off of school grounds. Yik Yak has lead to...
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On the trail of Advanced Persistent Threats...
SophosLabs expert Gabor Szappanos has written a highly-recommended report entitled "Advanced Persistent Threats - the new normal?" Szappi explains how exploits once seen only in APTs are appearing ever...
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Can we test protection against targeted attacks?
In my day job as a tester of anti-malware solutions, I often get asked the same question: how do I plan to test against Advanced Persistent Threats, aka APTs? These threats are very different from your...
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Patch Tuesday wrap-up, March 2014 – critical from Microsoft, important from...
Five updates from Microsoft, with two of them critical, including an APB for Internet Explorer users. One important from Adobe, making that three Flash fixes in just over a month. Don't delay. Patch...
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls for ‘Magna Carta’ bill of rights for world wide web
On its silver anniversary, world wide web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has called for a 'Magna Carta' for the world wide web to protect its users across the globe.
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Another two universities suffer data breaches, but notification still too slow
Universities seem to be evergreen targets for hackers, with two more breaches announced in the past week or so. This time it's the turn of North Dakota University System and Johns Hopkins University in...
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SSCC 138 – Patching, zero-days, XP, APTs and CryptoLocker [PODCAST]
Join the dynamic duo for another entertaining quarter-hour on security. There's Patch Tuesday, the impending end of XP, Advanced Persistent Threatitis, and some astonishing statistics about CryptoLocker.
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Even big-name brands score badly in website password practices
Two-thirds of the UK's top 100 e-commerce sites are happy for their users to protect their account with feeble passwords such as "password" or "123456". This and other shocking password security...
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PWN2OWN Day One – Reader, IE, Flash and Firefox felled, Java left standing
PWN2OWN Day One results are in! The target that sounded easiest - Oracle Java, with prize money less than a third of the supposedly much tougher IE 11 - was the only one left standing at the end of the...
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Hacker who Snowdenized ethical hacking site also grabbed email control
The hacker behind the pasting of Edward Snowden's mug onto the EC-Council's site also managed to send a password-reset to its cloud-based enterprise email and get control of some customers' accounts.
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Cybersecurity training to start with children as young as 11
School children as young as 11 are going to get lessons in the fine art of securing all things cyber. The government also plans to plug university students into internships so they get the security...
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PWN2OWN Day Two – Chrome and Safari join the losers
Here are the PWN2OWN results from Day Two, and an overview of the final payouts. Chrome and Safari didn't get picked for Day One, but both of them were pwned on Day Two - twice for Chrome and once for...
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Employees’ bank details stolen from UK supermarket Morrisons
Morrisons is scrambling to tell employees that the staff payroll system has been raided, with the thieves taking names, addresses and bank details of staff.
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Target missed multiple warnings that credit card data breach was underway
Target's sophisticated security system went on full alert after detecting malware on the company’s network on 30 November last year and could have prevented the theft of 40 million credit and debit...
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Mark Zuckerberg called Barack Obama to ‘express frustration’ over surveillance
Mark Zuckerberg has phoned the US president to vent his frustrations over alleged internet surveillance.
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Browsers pwned, Korean megabreach, hackers phoiled, and Chet Chat turns 4!...
Which browser plugin withstood PWN2OWN? How big was the latest South Korean megabreach? What happens when hackers attack phishers? Find out in 60 Second Security...
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Is Snowden reshaping global privacy?
This week, the European Parliament met and discussed written testimony from US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The EU legislators also passed a new pan-European data privacy law backed by stiffer...
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Anatomy of a Bitcoin phish - don't be too quick before you click!
Paul Ducklin looks at a recent Bitcoin phish, and offers some tips on how not to get suckered in just because things look familiar...
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Monday review - the hot 21 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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DDoS attack takes out NATO websites, Ukraine connection claimed
Pro-Russian Ukrainian hacktivist group, 'Cyber Berkut', claim to be behind the attacks on the main NATO public website. NATO insisted there was "no operational impact", but further cyber incidents are...
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