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FitzRoy, Oleg Pliss, Spotify and TrueCrypt – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Did FitzRoy get hacked? Who is Oleg Pliss? What's up with Spotify? Where has TrueCrypt gone? 60 Second Security - 31 May 2014
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From Cabir to Koler – 10 years of Mobile Malware
It's 10 years since June 2004, when the first mobile malware appeared. We don't want to *celebrate* this anniversary, you understand, but we thought we'd look back to see what we can learn...
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Monday review – the hot 22 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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Say hello to your vending machine – it might be watching you!
You walk up, ready to quench your thirst with sucrose syrup, and the beverage vending machine decides to take your photo, guess your age, discern your gender and then target-market at you.
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Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
Which must have come as a surprise to him, because despite facing a jail sentence and a fine of 46 million Swedish krona ($6.9 million, £4.1 million), Sunde wasn't even sure whether there was an...
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NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance...
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12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google's search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there...
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Has CryptoLocker been cracked? Is Gameover over?
Gameover is one of the most notorious botnets of recent times. And CryptoLocker is the Big Daddy of the ransomware scene. But a team of global law enforcement agencies has taken them on...and YOU can...
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Alleged robber caught after trying to befriend his victim on Facebook
An alleged robber was caught after trying to buddy up to the woman he bashed over the head, say police. The next day, she got a friend request. She didn't recognise his face, but she did recognise a...
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Move over Heartbleed - here comes another SSL/TLS bug
Which widely used open source SSL/TLS cryptographic library just recently fixed a critical bug caused by a buffer overflow? (Hint. The software isn't OpenSSL and the vulnerability isn't Heartbleed.)
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Prankster fakes pick axe murder for Google Street View
It took over a year for somebody to complain about the image. If you're worried that Big Brother is watching, think of it as consolation that he's not too quick on the uptake.
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Myspace emails cringe-worthy old photos to lure users back
Myspace is sending users one or two photos in a seemingly desperate attempt to convince people that it still exists, to intrigue former users, to embarrass them, and/or to send them hurtling back to...
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Sydney teen arrested as hacking hoaxster sends SWAT team to his house
Having been told that residents were tied up inside the home, and that shots had been fired, officers swooped on the Bonar Street address at 4.40 am. But it was all a hoax.
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SSCC 150 – TrueCrypt, Gameover, CryptoLocker and whither mobile malware?...
This week, Chet and Duck dig into the bafflement of the disappearing TrueCrypt encryption software: did it jump, or was it pushed? They also look at the takedown of Gameover and CryptoLocker, and look...
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Naked Security now available in HTTPS
You can now browse your favourite computer security news website and make it more difficult for the NSA to spy on you at the same time!
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Fight internet surveillance, Reset The Net
5 June 2014 is Reset The Net. It's a day to take back our privacy by using strong encryption whenever and wherever we can and insisting that the organisations we rely upon do too.
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Facebook's new audio feature won't snoop on us, it says
Listening in and identifying your TV and music is opt-in only, Facebook's security head honcho said, and no, he wouldn't want it in his pocket either if it was recording everything going on around him.
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Google says half of email is sent unencrypted
It's been an encryption-intensive start to the week - good news for all of us who are wary of snooping.
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Facebook troll jailed for posting he was 'glad' teacher was murdered
A Facebook troll has been jailed after posting he was "glad" a much-loved UK teacher, Ann Maguire, got "stabbed up".
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CryptoLocker wannabe "Simplelocker" scrambles your files, holds your Android...
"If the crooks keep copying Windows threats that were financially lucrative," you're thinking, "we'll soon see Android ransomware that doesn't just lock your device, but locks up your data instead, or...
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