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Serious Security: China Internet Network Information Center in TLS...
TLS certificates are very important. In fact, you could say they are the cornerstone of online security, especially for e-commerce. So we thought we'd use a story about a recent certificate security...
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Entire Oakland Police license plate reader data set handed to journalist
The entire LPR dataset of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) included more than 4.6 million reads of over 1.1 million unique plates captured in just over 3 years.
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Uber goes Big Data, shares customers' data with a hotel chain
Uber has joined the rank of Big Data sellers, up there with Facebook, Google and Visa. The product: data about customers' movements, where they shop, where they work, where they go and much more.
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Plenty Of Fish hooked by Canada's anti-spam laws, faces 48k penalty
Canada's strict anti-spam laws have come down hard on another offender, with the operators of dating website Plenty Of Fish paying a $48,000 penalty for failing to provide proper unsubscribe options in...
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RadioShack to auction off customer data, violating own privacy policy
Despite it's privacy policy, bankrupt RadioShack is putting customer names, addresses, email addresses and other data up for auction.
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"Look at me" - forget fingerprints, here comes a Samsung tablet with iris...
US research institute SRI has inked a deal with Samsung to build a tablet with built-in iris recognition. Samsung's S5 fingerprint reader was cracked PDQ...wonder how long your eye-prints will hold up?
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Tinder hack tricks men into unknowingly flirting with each other
In yet another example of how very hackable Tinder is, an engineer set up bait female profiles and then hooked up the guys who "liked" them.
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Hijacked school Twitter account turns head teacher into a porn star
Nothing like a bit of Photoshopping and access to the school's Twitter account to turn an unwitting head teacher into a beefcake.
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How secure is your Wi-Fi? 3 things small businesses need to know
Getting Wi-Fi security right is essential for everyone, but small businesses especially could use some good security advice. Here are 3 key things small businesses should know about securing Wi-Fi.
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PayPal in trouble over Weapons of Mass Destruction (sort of)
PayPal just agreed to pay up $7.6M to the US Treasury for allegedly failing to block transactions that fell foul of sanctions laws.
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Leave Facebook if you value your privacy, says EU
A lawyer for the European Commission told an EU judge he should leave Facebook if he wants to stop the US snooping on him.
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"Probably tired and shagged out after a long squawk" - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Our weekly witty-but-serious video - news you can use, and it only takes a minute. Enjoy...
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Safari users win right to sue Google over secret cookies
The landmark case could determine if Google can be held accountable in the UK. Safari users have formed a group to seek damages.
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Hotel Wi-Fi router security hole: will this be the Ultimate Pwnie Award...
If you were a cracker, and you could write your own specifications for a remote unauthenticated read/write hole... ...this is probably what you'd ask for.
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Stolen Uber login credentials for sale on the dark web
At least two sellers on the dark net appear to be selling Uber customer logins for as little as $1, with one offering a discount for bulk purchases.
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Slack gets hacked - rolls out two-factor authentication after user database...
Slack is the latest start-up to make a big media splash in one of the worst possible ways - by acknowledging a data breach that exposed its users to malicious hackers.
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NSA faces security scare, this time physical: 1 killed, 2 injured in HQ incident
Security breaches at the US National Security Agency typically get a lot of publicity. This one is no exception, but it's not a network intrusion or a data leak...
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DARPA's plan to make software security "the domain of machines"
Bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock can sit unobserved in critically important software for years. The answer, according to DARPA, is intelligent software that fixes buggy programs while we sleep. Is...
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World Backup Day - is your data safe enough?
Ransomware has made us all aware of the value of backups - but there are many other reasons to have a copy of your vital data in reserve!
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Man escapes from jail after sending fake bail email
An imprisoned fraudster cooked up a bogus set of bail instructions and emailed it to prison officials who then let him walk out. He granted himself a 3-day furlough, then turned himself back in.
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