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What's next for ransomware? Cryptowall picks up where CryptoLocker left off
With many victims paying up, ransomware is a lucrative business for cybercrooks, and CryptoLocker has inspired copycats who want in on the loot. John Zorabedian looks at ransomware that seems to be...
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Does Facebook's Slingshot commit true imagicide? Or is it another Snapchat?
"Disappear forever" didn't mean much when Snapchat said it. Neither Snapchat nor Facebook's newly released Slingshot stops anybody from taking a screenshot or snapping a photo of the receiving device...
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SSCC 152 - PF Chang's, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of...
Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week's security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the...
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Google forced to e-forget a company worldwide
Perhaps inspired by Europeans winning the right to be forgotten in Google search results last month, a Canadian court has ruled that Google has to remove search results for a Canadian company's...
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Email gaffe unmasks 'anonymous' bidders in Bitcoin auction
Somebody at the US Marshals Service goofed, cc'ing a list of 40 people who'd written to inquire about what was supposed to be an anonymous auction of the Bitcoins seized in the Fed's raid on Silk Road.
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Google and Microsoft want to kill your phone if it's stolen. Do you feel safer?
The law enforcement group Secure Our Smartphones is claiming victory after Google and Microsoft announced they will add a "kill switch" to their mobile operating systems.
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TrueCrypt mystery - forking weirder than before
The TrueCrypt mystery is solved! The developers have spoken! Unless, of course, the latest "solution" is yet another layer in the mystery...
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Facebook privacy case to be referred to European Court of Justice
The High Court in Ireland has referred the data-sharing case of Austrian law student, Max Schrems, to the European Court of Justice.
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Privacy and iOS 8, USMS blunder and Cryptowall ransomware - 60 Sec Security...
One minute of fun with a serious side... 60 Second Security - 21 June 2014
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Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we wrote in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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'Yo' app hacked by college students, hires one of the hackers
A Georgia Tech student claims he and two roommates were able to get any user's phone number, that they texted the founder (who, he said, called him back), to spam any user, and to send any text they...
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US House votes "overwhelmingly" to cut funding of NSA surveillance
A strong majority of the US House have voted to cut funding for surveillance on citizens or for planting backdoors that let the government slip past encryption that's supposed to shield communications.
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Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)
Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the...
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Spam in Canada goes "strictly opt-in" in one week - with only THREE YEARS to...
It's been a long, long, long time coming, but spam in Canada really does go "strictly opt-in" on this year's Canada Day, 01 July 2014. After that, you will have a meagre THREE YEARS to adapt your...
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BoringSSL wants to kill the excitement that led to Heartbleed
Some things just aren't meant to be exciting. In fact some things are supposed to be so far from novelty, surprise and frivolity that any whiff of excitement at all is a bad sign indeed. Introducing...
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New York City makes a hash of taxi driver data disclosure
What do you do in your spare time if you're a self-confessed "urbanist, data junkie and civic hacker," like New York resident Chris Whong? Use Freedom of Information Laws to find out more about NYC's...
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World Cup security well executed if you don't count the WiFi
The company providing security for one of the World Cup venues in Brazil accidentally posted a photo containing the secret WiFi password. Does it really matter? Was it even a secret to begin with?
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Carwash POS systems hacked, credit card data drained
Police in the US state of Massachusetts have busted what they say is a gang of thieves who were buying stolen credit cards and using them to buy gift cards that were then sometimes exhausted of their...
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hitchBOT - Privacy invading hitchhiking robot or fun social experiment?
Introducing hitchBOT, a science meets art project, getting ready to hitch 6158 km across Canada from Halifax to Victoria next month.
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Cupid Media "breached Privacy act" after storing users' passwords in plain text
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has ruled that Cupid Media Pty Ltd - of OKCupid dating site fame - breached the Privacy Act following a data breach which saw over 40 million customer records exposed.
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