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G20 delegates' personal data breached in autofill email glitch
The Australian immigration department sent an email to the wrong person, and so passport and visa details for the world's head honchos got disclosed - a mistake the department decided didn't warrant...
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Federal agents charged over alleged Silk Road Bitcoin theft
Two federal agents have been charged with stealing digital currency during the FBI's take-down of the Silk Road marketplace.
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Feds subpoena Reddit for personal info of dark web forum members
The subpoena demands information on five users of the Darknet Markets subreddit, all of whom discussed the recent fall of Evolution, a mega-mart for drugs.
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Twitter’s new Periscope app takes a user privacy hit
If a user forgets to turn off the Twitter button before broadcasting a private video stream, the title gets shared with all the user's followers.
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SSCC 192 - What's that passport number DOING IN AN EMAIL? [PODCAST]
Join Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin as they dissect the latest news in our weekly computer security podcast. From the G20 leaders' "passport leak" to World Backup Day, we turn news...
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Facebook hits back at report claiming it tracks pretty much everyone
A new report claims Facebook is tracking logged out users, non-account holders and EU users who have explicitly opted out of being tracked.
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April Fools! The day's weirdest spams revealed...
Today, we just couldn't resist sifting through our Spam Stash. Here's some comment spam from Naked Security that we thought would amuse you...
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"Your location has been shared 5398 times" - Do we need a privacy assistant...
Do we need a privacy assistant on our smartphones?
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How one man could have deleted every video on YouTube
Kamil Hismatullin fought his desperate urge to delete all things Justin Bieber, he said.
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GPS tracking counts as a "search", says US Supreme Court
The court sided with an offender who argued that being forced to wear a location monitor for the rest of his life is unconstitutional.
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Google clamps down on ad injectors after 100,000 Chrome users complained
Google has taken a heavy hand to ad injectors after a study revealed 34% of surveyed ads were peddling malware and 192 "deceptive Chrome extensions" were discovered.
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Obama signs executive order to sanction foreign hackers
Obama signed a new executive order on Wednesday (1 April 2015) authorizing financial sanctions against foreign hackers, and companies that knowingly benefit from cyberattacks against US interests.
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Uber gets its first chief security officer - Facebook's Joe Sullivan
Uber just poached Facebook's Joe Sullivan to act as the ride-hailing app company's first chief security officer. It might make you wonder - why didn't Uber have a CSO before now?
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Has Uber scored an executive touchdown? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch the latest episode of our weekly "news in one minute" security video...
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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
Here are last week's stories in one convenient place so you can catch up on what you missed!
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Snapchat issues first transparency report on law enforcement data requests
It's a big step forward in transparency for Snapchat, which formerly described its service in a way that might lead users to think turning over their content to law enforcement would be impossible.
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Facebook publishes new security settings guide
Drop-dead simple advice on keeping intruders' hands off your account, spotting phishing attempts and more.
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Politicians promise to lock kids out of online porn sites
Policymakers from Britain's Conservative Party call for oversight by an independent regulator with the power to compel ISPs to block sites that fail to include effective age verification.
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Firefox issues brand new update to fix HTTPS security hole in new update
Firefox 37.0 added support for a security-enhancing feature in HTTP/2 known as Alternative Services. Unfortunately, the new feature had a rather bad HTTPS security hole all of its own...
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Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over facial recognition data
A new lawsuit alleges Facebook violated users' privacy rights to build world's largest privately held database of facial recognition data.
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