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Facebook predator charged after posing as teenager to stalk girls online
A 22-year-old man from New Jersey has been charged with stalking one teenage girl and soliciting sexually explicit photos from another via Facebook.
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Nigerian bank IT worker on the run after $40m cyber heist
A Nigerian IT worker is wanted by police after a major cyber-heist at the bank where he was employed.
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Man buys old servers, accuses Ernst & Young of data breach
Mark Morris claims he picked up some old servers for $300 and recently found out they're full of customer data. Ernst & Young wants the data deleted or just to get the servers back, but Morris says...
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Just how much information can be squeezed from one week of your metadata?
Thanks to a Dutch man who volunteered to let researchers snoop on his mobile phone, we now have a glimpse of the type of information that can be squeezed from what officials would have us believe is...
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"Shocking" Android browser bug could be a "privacy disaster": here's how to...
The Metasploit crew is calling this Android Browser bug a "privacy disaster.” Here's what you can do to avoid trouble...
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Apple relents, lets you "depurchase" that U2 album you never bought in the...
Apple has listened! The company has come up with a free Album Removal Tool that allows you to "unbuy" the U2 album that recently showed up in your iTunes account...
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From the Labs: VBA is definitely not dead - in fact, it's undergoing a...
Our most recent detection statistics show that using Visual Basic code in malicious documents is a trend on the rise. So why have malware authors turned to Visual Basic to do their bidding?
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Apple adds two-step verification for iCloud, effective immediately
Apple has listened, and extended its two-step verification system to iCloud. It's a great start...but does it go far enough?
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California passes "landmark bill" to protect students' personal data
There's a lot at stake: think student records that cover attendance, grades, discipline, health, academics, intimate details about family members, parent and student contact information, biometrics,...
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Apple questioned on Watch privacy by state attorney general
Apple calls the gadget its "most personal device ever". Attorney General George Jepsen would like to know how Apple's planning to protect all that data, which will include things as intimate as our...
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New Google transparency report details hike in government user data requests
Governments around the world are demanding increasingly larger amounts of user data from search giant Google, according to the company’s latest Transparency Report.
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Facebook meets with LGBT community over real-name policy
After mounting protests, Facebook reps scheduled a meeting with San Francisco activists and city officials over its real-name policy, which many say discriminates against the LGBT community.
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Is Facebook building a "Moments" app for ultra-private sharing?
The company's reportedly putting the finishing touches on a separate app for composing intimate updates, designed to be an entirely different experience than what we have now: the kludgy toggling of...
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SSCC 165 - "U2 or not U2," that is the question [PODCAST]
It's Chet Chat time! Here's this week's episode of our news-you-can-use security podcast...
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Apple ships a sevenfold security surprise, including iOS 8 and OS X 10.9.5
Apple doesn't have Patch Tuesdays, but it does have Update Surprisedays. We just had one of them, with brand new and more secure versions of iOS, OS X and Safari.
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Chinese hackers breached US military contractors, says Senate report
Military contractors for the US Transportation Command were breached by hackers associated with the Chinese government at least 20 times in one year, according to a report released Wednesday by the US...
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eBay takes flak for leaving rigged iPhone listing up for 12 hours
eBay's getting flak for its chilled response to a serious XSS attack, sprung when a user clicked on a fake listing for an Iphone 5S and was redirected to a spoofed site that was after users' login...
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Home Depot breach totals: 56 million credit cards exposed, $62 million in losses
Lots of people who speculated about the credit card data breach at the Home Depot turned out to be wrong. But those who suggested that Home Depot's breach might end up bigger than Target's turned out...
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Apple’s Tim Cook talks privacy: ‘We’re not like all the others’
Apple has launched a new privacy website to explain what it does and doesn't do with user data. On the front page, a letter from CEO Tim Cook explains that Apple views privacy differently to other...
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10 security holes that cybercrooks dream about - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's this week's episode of 60 Second Security. Enjoy the latest security news in just one minute...
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