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Phone spyware, Mac security, and WhatsApp privacy – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How do you get spyware on your victim, er, target's phone? Have Mac users changed their attitude to security? And how deep does privacy run at WhatsApp? Find out in 60 seconds!
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Monday review - the hot 23 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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Turkey bans Twitter, citizens tweet more
Last Friday the Turkish government slapped a ban on Twitter, saying that it had failed to comply with court orders imposed after some of its citizens used the social networking site to share...
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Bitcoin user loses $10K to typosquatters - tips to avoid opening your wallet...
Last week, SophosLabs alerted us to a Bitcoin phish orchestrated by email. This week, it's a Bitcoin phish that relies on typosquatting. Paul Ducklin offers some tips to keep you safe...
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Facebook's online teen privacy argument challenged in California court
A long-running legal dispute that was settled is now bubbling up once again. Namely, the way that Facebook appropriates children and teen users' names and photos for "Sponsored Story" ads when users...
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Secret CEO wrestles with cyberbullying issues on new anonymous sharing app
Unlike its anonymous sharing-app brethren - Yik Yak, Whisper, PostSecret, or Ask.fm - this service is limited to your contacts, instead of being a free-for-all full of strangers. Will that be enough to...
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Microsoft issues alert for Word zero-day - booby-trapped RTF files already...
Booby-trapped RTF files have been found in the wild, exploiting a zero-day hole in Microsoft Word. Microsoft has issued an alert. Paul Ducklin gives you four tips for long-term safety against this sort...
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Spyware app turns the privacy tables on Google Glass wearers
A spyware app developed by two researchers has shown that Google Glass can be used to secretly take photos of whatever a Glass wearer is looking at without their knowledge - making the Glass user the...
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Obama to unveil plan to end NSA bulk data collection
On Tuesday, the Justice Department and the intelligence community presented Obama with a bill that would shift bulk data collection by the NSA to the phone companies themselves.
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Tumblr beefs up security with two-factor authentication
Just like you need two keys to launch a nuclear missile (and we really, really hope that you weren't planning to do that anytime soon), you can now flip on the extra protection of needing-two-things to...
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Chinese cops nab 1,530 mobile SMS spammers in raid on fake base stations
Chinese police have arrested 1,530 spammers who've been driving around, spewing spam at people's phones from mobile, fake base stations. But it's just a drop in China's enormously spammy bucket.
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SSCC 140 - Does Windows have more holes than OS X? Whither messaging privacy?...
How bad is the latest Microsoft Word 0-day? Does OS X really need patching less often than Windows? What does Gmail's move to HTTPS-only really mean? And if WhatsApp has privacy coded into its DNA, is...
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Spammers take advantage of Naked Security writing about spammers
An identity theft focused spam campaign is doing the rounds pretending to be a winning notification from the American "green card lottery". Worse yet, the spammers decided to utilize imagery hosted on...
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Is data privacy an out of date concept?
For some people, it seems as if they put their whole lives on display on social media. They are often, themselves, posting the very information that organisations go to great lengths to try to protect....
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Is data privacy more important than ever?
This article is inspired by another piece we've published today in which John Bryan asks 'is data privacy an out of date concept?' I think we all have a responsibility to ourselves and the younger...
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US school to fork over $70K for hassling sixth-grader about Facebook posting
Riley Stratton was forced to hand over her Facebook and email passwords and, with a police officer in the room, school officials searched her Facebook page for an alleged conversation she had with a...
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Senator says Snapchat 'hiding something' by skipping data breach hearing
Snapchat has drawn fire from US Senator Jay Rockefeller, the powerful chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Technology, and Transportation, for refusing to testify in a hearing on data breaches.
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Boston Bomber slipped past while spelling glitch tripped up the law
The old data-quality maxim "garbage in, garbage out" proves true yet again in the case of the Boston Marathon bomber, who, a Congressional report confirms, slipped through the border when a database...
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MS-DOS and MS-Word source code released for review - get it while it's new!
You have GOT to see this! Early MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code, ready for security review! Paul Ducklin and Gabor Szappanos take a bit of a trip down memory lane, and muse, "How different the...
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NIST to review standard for cryptographic development - do we really care?
Whether you use it to protect personal data, protect customer data or secure your communications, cryptography is an integral part of our digital world, but the announcement late in 2013 that NIST is...
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