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Shopping site reports 3-year-old data breach
Australian shopping website CatchOfTheDay has warned customers of a data breach dating back to 7 May 2011, urging anyone who has kept the same password at the site since that date to change it.
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Apple and Google told to stop misleading consumers about 'free' apps
The European Commission (EC) has recently been working with national authorities and app store owners to address concerns over in-app purchases, especially where those transactions are undertaken by...
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SoHo routers to get hacker-style scrutiny in return for "awesome" prizes
Buy a $50 SoHo router, plug it in, press a couple of buttons. Bingo! A connected household! What could possibly go wrong? If history is any guide, quite a lot...
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New search engine Indexeus unmasks malicious hackers
Indexeus is a database of stolen names and passwords, many doxed from the hackers who've themselves doxed others' data. Is it poetic justice, exploitation of a lucrative market, a prototype of an...
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Your Gmail account is fair game for cops or feds, says US judge
A New York court on Thursday opened up our entire Gmail accounts to feds or cops with warrants, in spite of two recent decisions that went against similar requests.
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Dirty Dozen Spampionship – which country is spewing the most spam?
The World Cup may be done and dusted, but the Spampionship continues! Where did you come in our spam-sending league tables?
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500,000-per-day SMS spammer gets just £4,000 fine
An Indian call-centre operator has been fined by a London court for breaching Data Protection laws, but despite his operation bombarding UK cell phones with spams, his punishment amounts to little more...
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"Rickmote" box Rickrolls Chromecast, forcibly earworms hapless victims
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you.
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Car hackers build anti-car-hacking gadget
Besides yet more white-knuckled car-jacking stunts, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek also plan to unveil at next month's Black Hat conference a prototype device meant to foil the...
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Firefox 31 has arrived - 11 bulletins, 3 critical, 0 visual surprises
Firefox 31 is out. So is its updated conservative older brother, the Extended Support Release, now at 24.7. And Firefox's email-oriented cousin Thunderbird gets updated, too.
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iSpy? Researcher exposes backdoor in iPhones and iPads
A "backdoor" that Apple built into iOS for developers can be used to spy on iPhones and iPads by governments, law enforcement, or cyber criminals, according to forensics researcher Jonathan Zdziarski.
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Google given 18 months to change its handling of user data
The Italian Data Protection Commissioner has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data.
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SSCC 157 - Routers, Browsers, Zombies and Sysadmins [PODCAST]
Here it is...this week's Chet Chat security podcast. In this episode: fixing routers, trusting browsers, killing zombies and showing TLC to sysadmins.
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eBay's StubHub ransacked for over $1 million, international crime ring arrested
US police have indicted six people across four countries on charges of defrauding eBay's StubHub for over $1 million in pilfered tickets for things like Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake concerts. eBay says...
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Hacker claims breach of Wall Street Journal and Vice
W0rm's been quite busy and has already pulled this on CNET, and likewise is again offering to sell user data and server credentials for one Bitcoin.
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Android app market pirates busted by FBI
Six Americans charged with large-scale piracy of Android apps. But what about their "customers"? Is there really an increased risk of malware from unlawfully acquired apps?
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Cat stalker knows where your kitty lives (and it's your fault)
Professor Owen Mundy has mapped a million cats' locations on to a world map in a purrfect illustration of the extent of the data that's publicly available from photo-sharing sites. He isn't even a cat...
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Android "FBI Lock" malware - how to avoid paying the ransom
The latest "FBI Lock" Android ransomware reported by SophosLabs follows a familiar theme. But it has a slight sting in the tail to make it trickier to remove, so we thought we'd take you through the...
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A day in the life of a Sophos SysAdmin
Today is SysAdmin Day. We have to have a day for SysAdmins because they often don't get the recognition they deserve. And if, like many, you're wondering what a SysAdmin does in a day, we spoke to one...
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What's the worst thing you can say to a sysadmin? [POLL]
"Hey, I know you're at your wedding. But I just gave my Social Security Number to someone from Iran."
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