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Celebgate continues, nude celebrity photos posted of Winona Ryder, Hulk...
Yet another crop of nude photos has been released. More will come. The salacious are still as thrilled as ever, but much of the internet is just hitting the snooze button and rolling over. Why do we...
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Dubai police add facial recognition to Google Glass
A spokesman confirmed a report that Dubai police have developed software that will connect a Glass wearer to a database of wanted people. Is it 1984 yet?
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Bugzilla bug tracker fixes zero-day bug revealing bug
If we are allowed to smile at security holes, this bug-revealing bug in Bugzilla is wryly amusing...
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Facebook warns against buying fake likes, but the fans-for-sale industry is...
Facebook is taking another swipe at fraudulent likes that artificially inflate a Facebook Page's number of fans.
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Top 5 celebrity online thefts
There have been many episodes of celebrities being targeted by cybercriminals. Let's take a look at some of the worst cases of celebrity data loss…
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Revenge porn offenders could face 14 years in jail
The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has issued new guidance on the posting of revenge pornography. The suggested new approach would see more serious cases of revenge porn prosecuted under the...
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AT&T hit by insider breach; "change your passcode" it warns
AT&T, the giant US telecom, says it fired an insider for having thumbed through customer accounts without authorization and potentially slurping customers' taxpayer IDs, driver license numbers and...
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DEA agent steals woman's identity and photos to lure in suspects on Facebook
The woman gave up her rights when she handed over her phone in an arrest, the Feds are claiming in a court case, so that makes it OK for a DEA agent to put up a bogus account in her name, post her...
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SSCC 168 - Amaze your friends by ruining all their USB drives! [PODCAST]
Here's the latest Chet Chat security podcast for your listening pleasure. Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin take apart the latest computer security stories to turn them into news you...
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Twitter sues US federal agencies in attempt to remove the gag around...
Twitter doesn't want its transparency report to be fuzzy to the point of meaninglessness, full of "broad, inexact ranges" about how many times the US government has shaken it down in its surveillance...
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Adobe will update e-reader to mop up clear-text data spillage
Adobe is working on an update to fix the latest iteration of its e-book reader, which has a gluttonous appetite for readers' data and the slovenly habit of reporting our reading habits back to Adobe -...
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Reminder: iCloud's going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps
Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don't support Apple's new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You'll need app-specific passwords...
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FBI's warrantless 'hack' of Silk Road was legal, prosecutors claim
Even if FBI agents did hack their way into the Silk Road without a warrant - and they're most certainly not confessing to that, mind you - the intrusion would have been an upstanding, law-abiding,...
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Police thwarted by remote wiping of tablets and phones
Several UK police forces are left baffled after evidence on phones and tablets has evaporated into thin air, even after suspects have been taken into custody.
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Return of the Android SMS virus - self-spreading "Selfmite" worm comes back...
Back in June 2014, we wrote about an Android virus that worked a bit like the email worms of the early 2000s. Well, that Android virus has made a comeback, and this variant is both pushier and more...
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Mummy, my schoolbooks are spying on me! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's our latest 60 Second Security video for your viewing pleasure. The wry side of the week's news, in just a minute...
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Patch Tuesday for October 2014 - bigger than usual as Microsoft, Adobe and...
Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft patches are all arriving together on Tuesday 14 October 2014. Paul Ducklin looks at what to expect...
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Backoff malware gang hits Dairy Queen stores
Customers' payment card details may have been whipped out of nearly 400 Dairy Queen stores in the US. It's just the latest in a string of PoS malware infections that have been slamming US retailers.
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'The Snappening': Snapchat images flood the internet after SnapSaved.com hack
Hundreds of thousands of supposedly self-destructing Snapchat snaps have been apparently jimmied out of the database for SnapSaved.com, a third-party website not affiliated with Snapchat which allows...
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