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12 Days competition: Day 4 - This isn't the iCloud hack you're thinking of
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 4 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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German court blocks US extradition for "number two" hacker
Germany's top court has blocked the extradition to the US of Ercan Findikoğlu, suspected of $45 million in card fraud and facing 247 years in jail.
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YouTube learns about integer overflow, Gangnam Style!
An integer overflow bug in YouTube! Paul Ducklin takes a light-hearted look at the Psy-chology of big numbers...
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I am not a robot: Google swaps text CAPTCHAs for quivery mouse clicks
Forget mangled text: given AI advances, it's kaput. Google's new approach: analyze cookies, mouse movements and IP addresses, in one click.
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All PayPal accounts were 1 click away from hijacking
Until found and reported to PayPal, there was a security hole that meant 150 million-plus customers were one measly click away from account hijacking.
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12 Days competition: Day 5 - This software left the keys but threw away the lock
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 5 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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Steep rise in medical data breaches blamed on human error
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the number of healthcare data breaches reported between April and June 2014 doubled compared to the same period in the previous year. The problem;...
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Notes from SophosLabs: Ransomware with a difference - this one is a true virus!
SophosLabs recently drew our attention to some new ransomware that is both interesting and intriguing. Unusually, this one is a true parasitic virus - it infects other files as well as scrambling them.
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SSCC 176 - My goodness, it seems there's been another breach [PODCAST]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly security podcast, for your listening pleasure. Enjoy...
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PayPal, prison and ransomware - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's this week's 60 Second Security video... The latest news presented in a fun way, all 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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Sony Pictures feels the pain as megabreach claims expand
The breach involves taxpayer IDs for 47,000 employees and actors, including Sylvester Stallone, Judd Apatow and Rebel Wilson, as well as medical histories, salary information and much more.
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12 Days competition: Day 6 - Clocking up a decade of mobile malware
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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Online medical bill site tricked people to hand over health records
Online medical bill service, PaymentsMD, used the sign-up process for its patient portal as "a pathway to deceptively seek consumers' consent to obtain detailed medical information" about them.
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"It’s the internet’s fault." PlayStation Store downed amid hacking claims
The PlayStation Store was down for several hours this morning - visitors were met with a simple message that said "Page Not Found! It’s not you. It’s the internet's fault."
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Android Lollipop 5.0.1 is out - for the select few with Lollipop, at least
Google just released Android Lollipop 5.0.1 - but some of its own devices haven't even got 5.0 yet. No wonder third-party Android vendors so often lag behind...
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Internet freedom weakens around the world
In its fifth annual study, Freedom House assessed developments in 65 countries that occurred between May 2013 and May 2014 and found that internet freedom is declining for the fourth consecutive year,...
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Facebook launches keyword searching on past posts
Time to scrub your Timeline of embarrassing stuff you might have shared publicly, before somebody Google-ishly pairs your name with blush-worthy terms on Facebook!
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Alibaba turns into Ali-blab-blab thanks to web server URL security bug
Chinese e-commerce megabrand Alibaba just fixed a rather naughty security slipup on its online retail portal AliExpress. You could get data such as the addresses and phone numbers of other users.
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12 Days competition: Day 7 - Was it Gameover for CryptoLocker?
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 7 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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