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Lizard Squad moves on from Xbox and PlayStation, hacks Malaysia Airlines
The Malaysia Airlines website was defaced by hackers claiming to represent Lizard Squad and the 'Cyber Caliphate'.
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Beyond "fake invoice" scams - crooks can get money out of real invoices, too!
If I told you to change your record of a supplier's bank account so I got all the payments, would you do so? 1000s of companies did, and didn't spot the misdirected payments until an average of...
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Pinterest to sell ads based on what you're thinking of buying
Been pinning pictures of fancy kitchens? Well, isn't that interesting, says every appliance maker on the planet.
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Google asked to muzzle Waze 'police-stalking' app
US police are typically the ones to surveil, not the other way around, as Google's crowd-sourced, police-mapping traffic app is doing. Now sheriffs are asking Google to pull the plug on it.
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Lizard Squad took down Facebook and Instagram! Believe it! Or not...
The hacking-and-cracking crew known as Lizard Squad tweeted that Facebook and Instagram were down. Before you could say, "But we don't crash EVER," that had turned into "Lizard Squad did it"...
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Apple fixes Thunderstrike and 3 Project Zero bugs in OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite
The latest OS X beta, version 10.10.2, is in the hands of developers and hints that users will soon be getting fixes for the devilish Thunderstrike vulnerability and 3 Project Zero bugs.
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Taylor Swift's Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked
Hackers briefly got control of the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Taylor Swift, the Grammy-winning American pop-star, creating a stir on social media. Here's how to make sure your accounts are safe!
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The "Dirty Dozen" SPAMPIONSHIP: Who's the biggest? Who's the worst?
We take our quarterly dive into the SophosLabs spamtrap logs to find out who sends the most spam. Six countries made it onto our "worst per person" chart for the first time in a year...find out if you...
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Ubisoft yanks keys for online games purchased via unauthorised parties
Far Cry 4 and other games disappeared over the weekend, leaving a trail of ex-Ubisoft fans in their wake, stripped of games Ubisoft thinks were "fraudulently" bought on third-party sites.
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Bughunter cracks "absolute privacy" Blackphone - by sending it a text message
Serial bughunter Mark Dowd found a hole where it *really* wasn't wanted. In the text messaging software on the "absolute privacy" Blackphone...
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Facebook vs 25,000 users - privacy class action lawsuit has initial hearing...
An Austrian court has given the go ahead to a class action lawsuit brought against Facebook for alleged privacy violations across Europe.
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Massive DEA license plate reader program tracks millions of Americans
The DEA is using license plate reader cameras to capture information on an enormous number of motorists, with nearly 800 million license plates stored in a database used by federal and local authorities.
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SSCC 183 - It's Data Privacy Day! Do something! [PODCAST]
From Apple's latest OS X and iOS updates to Data Privacy Day - listen, learn and enjoy!
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US Military wants to replace passwords with "cognitive fingerprints"
DARPA has awarded researchers at the US military's elite West Point military academy a multi-million dollar contract to produce a replacement for password authentication based on "cognitive fingerprints"
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Cop who stole nude photos from arrested women's seized phones escapes jail time
Sean Harrington pleaded no contest to felony charges related to secretly forwarding suspects' photos to his and other officers' phones.
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Hotels that block personal Wi-Fi hotspots will get busted, says FCC
So ends Marriott's campaign to block guests' hotspots and force guests to pay for its own Wi-Fi, even though they don't threaten security.
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The GHOST vulnerability - what you need to know
The funkily-named bug of the week is GHOST. Here's how it got its name, why there's a problem, and what you can do about it...
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Super Bowl XLIX - a costly spectacle amid heightened security and surveillance
The Department of Homeland Security has declared that there is not a specific, credible threat against the Super Bowl this year, but that's not stopping the agency from going all out on security and...
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Dating site buys back 20 million hacked email addresses
Despite the hacker putting the email addresses up for sale, the undisclosed sum is apparently not ransom, it's an "award", says hacked site Topface.
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Facebook to fill with (more!) kittens in Wickr's message-hiding scheme
Secure messaging app Wickr has launched a timed, private photo stream that lets users upload private images to Facebook, covering them with kitten images that only user-selected people can decode.
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