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How to stay safe when traveling for the holidays
Whether you approach the holiday travel season with dread or excitement chances are you will be carrying one or more mobile devices and looking for those last minute travel bargains. Naked Security's...
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Google and EFF propose improvements to HTTPS as GlobalSign releases CA breach...
GlobalSign released their report on security incident the certificate authority suffered earlier this year. They're clean, but that doesn't take the spotlight off of the need for a fix to the SSL...
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Beware Nanny / Au Pair scams spread via spam email
Graham Cluley announces he is leaving Sophos to become a full-time nanny to a rich family in London. At least, that's his plan after he received a job offer via email. Do you think things will work out...
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Controversial SOPA bill gets more heat from internet giants YouTube, Google...
Today is the day that the US's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill is scheduled to be voted on. And unsurprisingly, the who's who of Silicon Valley are not happy. Several web gurus have banded together...
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Ellen DeGeneres fans targeted in bizarre Facebook scam
Facebook fans of American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres have been targeted by a scammer posing as her manager, offering the chance to appear on the top-rated TV show.
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Facebook gives security and privacy whistleblowers a red card
In a bizarre move by Facebook, a blog which has highlighted security and privacy issues on the social network has found itself banned, preventing the spread of news, opinion and advice.
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Internet Explorer to upgrade automatically, unless you say no
Microsoft is beginning to automatically upgrade users to Internet Explorer 9 as part of their effort to eradicate versions of their old and vulnerable browsers.
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Researchers: Google gamed browser report that dissed Firefox
It turns out that the Google sponsored study that painted Firefox in a poor light might have been influenced by the sponsor.
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'We could hack the Queen's medical records if we wanted'
The BBC claims that computer hackers were hired by private investigators to spy on politicians and the military. And who benefited from the hacking? The British press.
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Visa looks into Eastern European security breach
Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 credit cards on suspicion that they had been compromised, and a security blogger warns of loopholes in the security of "Verified by Visa"
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Lady Gaga's Facebook page hit by iPad scam
A scam claiming to offer free iPads has appeared on the Facebook page of pop phenomenon Lady Gaga. With over 45 million fans on Facebook, the scammers must have been rubbing their hands in glee -...
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Tesco warns customers of £250 gift voucher Facebook event scam
Supermarket chain Tesco has warned its customers about a scam that has spread on Facebook, claiming that attending an event on the social network can will earn them a free £250 gift voucher.
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Pregnant Kate Middleton doll leads to malware infection for AOL users
Take care if you visit the main page of AOL UK today - a story about Kate Middleton being pregnant (or rather a doll of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge) has a nasty sting in its tail.
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Try the #dragontattoo #sophospuzzle and win a Lego Mindstorm!
We're running a two-stage Christmas puzzle with a Dragon Tattoo flavour. Put your puzzle-solving skills to the test and you could win one of three Lego Mindstorms!
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Lax security blamed for 100,000+ sensitive files found on Manning's PC
The fourth pretrial hearing for Army Pfc. Bradley Manningday put the spotlight on more than 100,000 sensitive documents and conversation logs between Manning and a former hacker. This case raises the...
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SSCC 78 - IE 9 upgrades, Android malware, Carrier IQ and hospital shut down...
Gary Korhonen joins Chet for this week's podcast discussing the automatic upgrade of Internet Explorer, Android Market malware, Carrier IQ and an infection that shut down a hospital in Georgia.
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Naked Security wishes you great holidays
We're winding down a little for the Christmas break so you might find us a bit quieter than usual. See you back here in 2012!
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VIDEO: How to solve the #dragontattoo #sophospuzzle
By popular request, here is a video explaining how to solve the Dragon Tattoo-themed puzzle we published earlier this week...
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Try the #sophoscrossword this New Year's Eve!
Are you working over New Year, like Sophos Support and SophosLabs? If so, here's a bit of fun - official, educational fun! - to tide you over: a crossword puzzle with an IT theme. Stop press:number of...
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Large percentage of websites vulnerable to HashDoS denial of service attack
Researchers in Germany have disclosed a vulnerability in most web programming languages that allows for a denial of service attack to be successful with very little resource and against the vast...
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