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Data-drained Target hurries to adopt chip-and-PIN cards
The US has been dragging its heels on the expensive, laborious task of swapping its payment infrastructure for the more secure chip-and-PIN security used abroad. Still smarting from recent data theft,...
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Thanks for voting for us - we won the Grand Prix Prize for the Best Overall...
Thanks, everyone! We asked you to vote for us in the EU Security Blogger Awards...you did so, and we won!
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That was quick! Microsoft patches the "1776" hole in Internet Explorer
The Internet Explorer zero-day bug that made the headlines a few days ago went by the nerdy name of CVE-2014-1776. The good news? No need to wait until next Patch Tuesday for a fix - Microsoft has...
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Facebook announces new ‘Anonymous Login’ for third party apps
That means you'll be able to log in to third party sites and apps anonymously, but Facebook's holding tight to your personal details. In fact, it's setting itself up to be even more data-rich with the...
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Canadian ISPs ‘boomerang routing’ traffic through the snoopy US
A new report on carriers and transparency found that the country's internet lords aren't being upfront about shuffling intra-Canadian traffic through the US, which means that data resides where the NSA...
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Anti-piracy group warns about malware-riddled sites – fair, or scaremongering?
According to a study carried out by Incopro and published the Industry Trust, all but 1 of 30 sites investigated served malware, potentially unwanted software or some form of credit card fraud. But the...
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Microsoft and Adobe have 0-days, AOL breached, and we win an award! 60 Sec...
Are two zero-days better than one? What happened to AOL's user database? And is that another award that Naked Security just won? Find out in 60 Sec Security for 03 May 2014...
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Weird and wonderful: the "Webdriver Torso" mystery videos explained - and...
If you're not up to speed with the latest in conspiracy theory, you need to know about the eerie YouTube sensation known as "Webdriver Torso". We demystify the story; give you some tips on how to make...
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Monday review - the hot 17 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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Target CEO resigns, latest executive fallout from card breach
Target's CEO resigned earlier today, which may not come as a surprise to most. The bigger question is, have America's executives learned the correct lesson from Target's mistakes?
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Can we trust anyone with our personal info?
Two very different criminal cases have just concluded on opposite sides of the Atlantic, showing how vulnerable our personal information is. John Hawes explains why it's not just the Target-type...
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Cops get serious about cybercrime, and not before time
The world's police forces are, it seems, starting to appreciate the scale and significance of the cybercrime problem. Let's hope the process of international co-operation continues to pick up the steam...
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Tweet “#MansionParty,” get one #SpectacularlyTrashedMansion
It was supposed to be a smallish gathering of about 60. #Oops.
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Dropbox stumbles over security and privacy of secret links
Another flaw in Dropbox was discovered this week. Users sharing documents using a secret link may have inadvertently been sharing the secret link with sites they linked to from shared files.
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‘Moves’ fitness app races to change privacy policy after Facebook acquisition
Within 11 days of the acquisition announcement, the app changed its tune, from "we won't commingle data" to "we won't commingle but we *will* share." Befuddling semantics or what?
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Apple admits flaw in email attachment encryption on iPhones and iPads
Apple is under pressure once again to patch a security flaw in iOS 7, after a researcher published his discovery that email attachments are unencrypted on iPhones and iPads.
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87 arrested in the Philippines in bust of sextortion ring
Three men, out of some 87 arrested, are allegedly behind the blackmailing of Daniel Perry, a 17-year-old Scottish boy who killed himself last year.
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SSCC 146 – Target, Microsoft, Dropbox and the mysterious “Webdriver Torso”...
Have a listen to the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin look at what we can learn from the latest news.
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Stolen phone snaps selfie of mystery man who entered wrong PIN
Could be the thief, could be an innocent guy who just happened to pick up a stray mobile phone - hard to say! That's why police in Essex, UK, are keen to have a chat with him.
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Researchers find post-Snowden chill stifling our search terms
The prevalence of search terms that people think might get them in trouble with the government shrank not only in the US but also in other countries - growth that's even more notable when compared with...
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