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Anonymous shifts anti-Zetas operation to safer channels
Following the murder of multiple bloggers and reports that the Mexican drug cartel has hired narcohackers to help track Anonymous members for violent retaliation, the hacktivists have put into play a...
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NZ recording industry fires first "guilty until proved innocent" shots at...
New Zealand's parliament passed a controversial law earlier this year: the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011. The local recording industry has just used it in anger for the first...
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Bank catches thief in the act - the yucky world of insider fraud
How annoying is it when someone, placed in a position of trust, rips people off? The snappily named Delaware County District Attorney's Criminal Investigation Unit has filed charges against Librado...
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Another certificate authority issues dangerous certficates
Mozilla has revoked the signing privileges of another certificate authority for issuing weak and incomplete SSL/TLS certificates.
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Microsoft announces workaround for the Duqu exploit
Microsoft have released a security advisory for the vulnerability used in the Duqu Trojan. They are providing a workaround, but it disables the use of embedded True Type Fonts.
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Nov 5: the end of Facebook? No! The start of Kiwicon...
This year, more than 600 cybersecurity experts from Asia Pacific and beyond will attend Kiwicon V for a weekend of conferencing, conversation and conviviality. I'll be listening with great interest and...
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Hackers would never be hired by security vendors....right?
Customers build a relationship based on trust with security vendors. After all, customers who buy security solutions like anti-virus or anti-spam grant security companies access to update computers and...
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Naked Security celebrates first birthday by supporting Movember
First, happy birthday to us. Naked Security is one year old.To celebrate our birthday, we have convinced writer Graham Cluley to grow a wonderful bushy moooouuuuustash in aid of in aid of Movember..
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Fresh Phish disguised as a PayPal Urgent Account Review Notification
A wave of phishing emails targeting users of PayPal has been hitting mailboxes this weekend preying on your fear that someone has compromised your account.
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Randomness in cryptography - the devil's in the details
Kiwicon opened with a software engineering talk which was intensely focused - a case study of a single-line bug in a single source file in a single module in a 70MBbyte programming language distro....
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Research finds that privacy tools don’t work
Users can neither understand nor configure tools which claim to improve their privacy, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon. Is there any way we can achieve online privacy?
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Not such a nice hack, Nice Pack
Take a closer look at one of the nasty JavaScript threats that we have seen injected into thousands of legitimate web sites recently, for the purpose of infecting users with malware.
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Adidas tripped up by cyber attack and takes down sites
The popular sportswear manufacturer Adidas has suffered a "sophisticated, criminal cyber attack" made against a number of its sites.
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Hoax! Little boy needs 100 Facebook shares for a heart transplant
A new hoax is spreading between Facebook users, in the mistaken belief that sharing a picture of a sick boy in intensive care will grant him a heart transplant.
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Apple lets security researcher into App Store, then throws toys out of cot
Security researcher Charlie Miller recently published a YouTube video in which he shows, in his own words, how to break "the App Store [anti-malware] model using a flaw in the iOS code signing...
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DARPA pleads with hackers for help in cyberspace war
In a first-ever conference, officials warned that bloated security software is no match for lean, nimble malware as the country battles unnamed enemies.
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Adobe says goodbye to Flash for mobile platforms
Adobe's decision to cease development of Flash Player for mobile platform removes a significant potential malware infection mechanism, primarily for Android as it is the most common mobile operating...
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FBI's Operation Ghost Click takes out operators of DNS Changer malware network
The FBI is cock-a-hoop today, having just announced the bust of six Estonians for malware-related cybercrimes. The case goes back to 2007, with the investigation itself apparently having taken two years.
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11/11/11 - time to make a Nerd New Year's resolution
11/11/11 is Armistice Day. Lest we forget. It's also been dubbed "Nerd New Year." So why not make a Nerd New Year's Resolution?
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Steam goes public on data breach - but will it delay the launch of Skyrim?
Steam, the online empire of computer game behemoth Valve Corporation, has issued details of the hack it suffered last weekend. If you're a Steam user, find out what you should be doing next...
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