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SSCC 159 - What can we learn from the "honeybot"? [PODCAST]
For your listening pleasure! Here's this week's episode of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast...
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Evidence of another Snowden-like mole is worrying Feds
The US government has been trying to answer a crucial question: is Snowden a lone wolf, or are other Edward Snowdens out there, leaking ever more classified documents? Given new leaks published by...
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How Google plans to encrypt the web
This could be an inflection point for web security. By making HTTPS something that impacts search results Google are applying the stick to an enormous security push that's been all carrots up to now.
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Foursquare app tracks your location by default whenever your phone is on
Foursquare, makers of the popular app that lets you "check in" wherever you go, unveiled a new version this week that tracks your location even when the app is closed, with opt-in as the default. We...
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Sophos Techknow - Firewalls Demystified [PODCAST]
The word firewall has a lot more shades of meaning in 2014 than it did in 1994. So...who better to help us to demystify the modern firewall than Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski?
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Microsoft brings Internet Explorer's security into the 21st century
Internet Explorer (IE) will finally catch up with rival browsers next week when it begins blocking out-of-date ActiveX controls.
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SSCC 159.5 - Black Hat USA 2014 Conference Special [PODCAST]
The Black Hat USA 2014 conference is over, and Naked Security's Chester Wisniewski was there in fabulous Las Vegas to take it all in. And, as we all know, what happens in Vegas... ...gets faithfully...
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The data breach apocalypse that wasn't - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Malware, spam and hacking - and not all bad news, either! Watch 60 Second Security for Aug 9, 2014...
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Microsoft scans email for child porn images, leads to arrest
Microsoft detected two illicit images of a young girl when they were uploaded to a Pennsylvanian man's OneDrive cloud storage account. Before anybody starts worrying about snooping, be assured that...
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time! Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
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Apple iPads and MacBook Pros banned for Chinese government use
China has banned government officials from buying Apple products, reportedly to avoid the possibility of the US hijacking the technology to spy on Beijing.
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Pwnie Awards for Heartbleed, "goto fail", Mt. Gox
The golden My Little Pony statuettes have been passed out at the Black Hat Security 2014 conference, commemorating select infosec glories and groans. Best song: the haunting "SSL Smiley Song", sung to...
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Android "Heart App" virus spreads quickly, author arrested within 17 hours
Q. How to attract the attention of the police if you're a bored student on summer vacation? A. Write a virus that unleashes 20,000,000 SMSes, infects 100,000 devices, and steals personal data...
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Most people think public Wi-Fi is safe. Seriously?
Talk about dismaying numbers! In Ofcom's recent report, three quarters of the public were unconcerned about security when accessing Wi-Fi outside of their homes, and were quite happy to do *anything*...
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War Kitteh hunts out your unsecured Wi-Fi
Coco the cat was outfitted with Wi-Fi sniffing equipment in his collar, enabling him to map out 23 unique Wi-Fi hotspots, 4 of which used feeble WEP encryption, 4 of which were wide open, requiring no...
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Why the Facebook Messenger app is not the privacy nightmare people think it is
There's good reason to be skeptical of Facebook when it comes to privacy, but the Facebook Messenger app isn't the privacy nightmare that some people think it is. Here's why ...
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Facebook ordered to disclose records on underage users
Facebook says it doesn't keep them longer than six months, but a court in Belfast is nonetheless ordering it to hand over any records it might have or control about its underage users. The case...
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DEA paid out $854,460 for free Amtrak passenger data
Since 1995, a former Amtrak employee has been selling passenger data to the US Drug Enforcement Administration - information that cost the DEA $854,460, but which it could have gotten for free.
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Patch Tuesday wrap-up, August 2014: RCE + ASLR bypass + EoP == patch early,...
Patch Tuesday is here again. Paul Ducklin explains how this month's vulnerabilities can work together for harm, and why *all* the updates matter, not just the ones that ended up with a "critical" or...
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Gmail introduces filters for non-Latin characters, weeding out more phishing...
Using non-Latin characters that look very similar to their ASCII counterparts helps scammers, spammers and phishing crooks send emails from legitimate-looking addresses. Now Google's putting a stop to...
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