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"Dear ATM, kindly dispense 30 banknotes as a test" - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's this week's 60 Second Security video, for your viewing pleasure. From scammers to spammers in just one minute...
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Monday review - the hot 23 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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Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge
Fingerprints are what you *are*, passcodes are what you *know*. Therefore the police can demand your fingerprints to unlock a phone without contravening the Fifth Amendment, according to a judge in...
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HTML5 goes officially live - now you really CAN say goodbye to Java in your...
Of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5. That's quite a journey! Paul Ducklin takes look at where we are now...
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College kids still using Snapchat despite 'The Snappening', says report
A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
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Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years in jail...
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and an accomplice identified only as "T2" were convicted of hacking into a server belonging to American tech giant CSC in February 2012.
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GATSO! Speed camera phish leads to CryptoLocker ransomware clone...
Recently, we came across an intriguing phishing campaign that combines two feared products of the information age. Gatsos (speed cameras) and ransomware, rolled into one attack!
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Rugby team's site defaced to read 'i love you isis'
Counter-terrorism police in the UK are investigating cybervandalism of a local UK rugby team's website.
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How to steal a million dollars (actually, $999,999.99) - no PIN required
Researchers at Newcastle University in the UK have come up with a surprising way of attacking contactless payments. The £20 safety limit for PINless transactions evaporates if payment is requested in a...
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Last Pirate Bay co-founder, Fredrik Neij, arrested crossing Thailand-Laos border
Fredrik Neij, the last Pirate Bay co-founder still at large after 5 years of avoiding serving jail time back home in Sweden, was arrested Monday at the Thailand-Laos border.
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100 Bitcoin bounty slapped onto head of blackmailer who DDoSed Bitalo
No, thank you, we will *not* pay you 1 Bitcoin to stop the attack and teach us about our supposed vulnerabilities, Bitalo said, after being threatened with a DDoS. Instead, we will pay 100x that amount...
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SSCC 172 - Ransomware's not dead! [PODCAST]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. News you can use!
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Government demands for Facebook user data soar by 24%
Government requests for Facebook's user data rose by almost a quarter in the first half of 2014 compared with the second half of the previous year, according to the social network.
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How to clear out cookies, Flash cookies and local storage
This quick fix will show you how to clear out cookies and the cookie-like things that can be used to track you online.
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STD dating site PositiveSingles.com faces $16.5 million fine for sharing user...
The dating site for people with STDs promised "100%" anonymity but used the anonymous claimant's profile on affiliated niche dating sites such as AIDSDate, Herpesinmouth, ChristianSafeHaven,...
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3 ways to make your Yahoo Mail account safer
Following on from our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here's a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes, for users of Yahoo Mail.
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Navy gunners unphased by "integer overflow bug" concerns
Today, Naked Security received an out-of-the-ordinary email... ..from a vacationing coder with a penchant for fitting geekiness into regular life! We loved his story. We think you will too.
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Department of Homeland Security employee data breached in "state-sponsored...
Personal data may well have been snatched out of the US government's top employee background-checking firm in what officials are calling a major security breach.
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Alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0 busted, charged in NYC
The FBI on Thursday arrested Blake Benthall, also known as "Defcon", for allegedly being kingpin 2.0 of Silk Road 2.0, and the Feds said they won't get tired of shutting down Silk Roads whenever they...
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53 million email addresses stolen in Home Depot breach
In addition to the 56 million credit cards exposed in the recent breach at Home Depot, investigators have now revealed that more than 53 million email addresses were stolen too.
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