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Turkey blocks YouTube access amid “security concerns”
The Turkish government continued its heavy-handed approach to social media on Thursday, restricting YouTube access after the leak of an audio recording of Turkish officials discussing possible military...
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Word zero-day, Snapchat blasted, MS-DOS released – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
What should you do about the latest Word zero-day? What does Mr Rockefeller think of SnapChat? And is that MS-DOS I see before me? Watch 60 Sec Security for 29 March 2014, and find out!
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Google reports new shenanigans in ongoing Turkish internet blockade
Turkey recently blocked Twitter and YouTube, as well as Google's free Public DNS servers that many people used to get around the blockade. Now Google reports another layer of "active intervention" by...
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World Backup Day - are your important files backed up?
Today is World Backup Day! If your storage system fails, at work or at home, any valuable data could be lost for good. It's an essential task, but can be as simple or as complex as you choose. Here's...
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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
Make sure you're up to date with everything we wrote in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Rebunking Google's Glass "myth" debunking
Google's published a listicle about what it says are the Top 10 Glass Myths. Here's Naked Security's security- and privacy-centric view of some of those "myths."
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Transatlantic cables will bypass USA to avoid NSA spying
EU says "A new fibre-optic submarine cable, connecting Latin America directly with Europe" will "enhance data protection". Is NSA evasion really the reason for new undersea cable projects wrapping...
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Porn site age-check law demanded by UK media watchdog
A video-on-demand watchdog in the UK - whose government seems to have its knickers in a permanent twist over children potentially accessing internet porn - is demanding an age-check law for porn sites.
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Google Glass recording without permission could become illegal in Australia
The country's considering an overhaul of privacy laws that could make it illegal to record private conversations or activities without consent via Google Glass or similar wearable technologies.
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Bitcoin, Snapchat and XP as you've never heard them before - special coverage...
Instead of doing an April Fool, we've gone for some April Fun. We took three recent computer security stories, and turned them into poems!
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Dropbox says it isn't poking around in our stuff
"We don’t look at the files in your private folders and are committed to keeping your stuff safe", the company said in the wake of an internet freakout sparked by a user finding himself unable to share...
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Phony tech support scammer escapes with a slap on the wrist
In another case of a tech support cold calling scam, it seems Microsoft's free basic anti-malware was being installed for a fee ranging from £35 to £150. The owner of the support company insisted that...
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42 days to go for XP - 8 tips if you aren't going to make it
A. 42. Q. How many days left in Windows XP?
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Texan liquor chain Spec's leaks 550k card details in 17 month breach
Spec's, the fifth largest wine retailer in the US, has leaked 550,000 customers' card details, after some of its systems were compromised for close to 17 months.
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SSCC 141 - Adobe revisited, MS-DOS, Word, XP, Snapchat and backup [PODCAST]
Chet and Duck get together once again to look at the week's news with their usual blend of humor, insight and informed intensity.... Take a listen to the latest episode of our weekly quarter-hour podcast!
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Kill-switch for mobile phones could save US consumers $2.6B per year, says...
US consumers are spending CRAZY money to replace stolen phones and to insure the pocket-sized thief magnets, says a new report from Creighton University.
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James Clapper confirms that NSA conducted warrantless searches on Americans
In a letter to Congress released on Tuesday, the US government confirmed what we all knew (or at least suspected) – the National Security Agency has conducted warrantless searches on Americans' private...
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SellHack browser plugin ceases squeezing LinkedIn for hidden email addresses
The free extension promised to "hack" LinkedIn profiles to get at what should be users' tucked-away, private email addresses. Much to LinkedIn's chagrin, it was doing just that (albeit spottily) until...
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Google drives the Street View snooping scandal up to the Supreme Court
Google's asking the high court to rule on the legality of its past snorting of unencrypted WiFi traffic in neighborhoods around the US.
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Is Amazon hacking our apps? Or doing us all a security favour?
A war of words that started out as a fairly stinging criticism of Amazon has mellowed out into praise for the cloud services behemoth. It seems that Amazon is checking mobile apps for security risks,...
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