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Bugs in the hospital: how to pwn your own pethidine machine
Feeling short-changed by the nurse in charge of your painkiller quota? Telnet into the drug dispenser! Paul Ducklin looks at how to avoid this sort of security hole...
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Facebook opens up Internet.org but there's no support for HTTPS
Facebook has opened the internet up to users in India and other countries but says it won't immediately allow HTTPS.
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Apple confirms: tattooed wrists confuse Watch
Some dark wrist tattoos can block the Apple Watch from measuring heart rates and can then turn into a passcode-demanding pain in the wrist.
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Accused game hacker flees to Europe, says he can't afford defence
The Australian, who's fled to Europe, was 17 when he allegedly took part in the heist of unreleased gaming and Apache helicopter training software.
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Microsoft Word Intruder - the malware that writes new malware for you
Malware construction kits started in the 1990s as a way of expanding the virus-writing counterculture, but now they are all about money. SophosLabs looks at MWI, the Microsoft Word Intruder...
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Geolocation traces stolen watch right to suspect's left wrist
We often warn you to be careful about leaving geolocation features enabled on your mobile devices. Fortunately, this woman didn't listen!
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Grooveshark is back already. Or is it?
A new version of Grooveshark has appeared online days after the original folded due to the threat of legal action and a huge damages claim.
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Spamming diet pill pusher Sale Slash has assets frozen by FTC
The company allegedly used illegal spam emails and fake celebrity endorsements to trick people into handing over cash for their suspect weight loss miracle pills.
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Can the Rombertik malware really "destroy computers"? No, no, three times NO!
We didn't really want to get drawn into this one. But it's hard to avoid commenting on malware that has variously been described as a "terrifying suicide bomber'" and as having a payload that "destroys...
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SSCC 197 - Could the LOVE BUG virus outbreak happen again? [PODCAST]
Listen to our latest podcast. From the end of Patch Tuesday to the likelihood of another virus outbreak like LOVE BUG, here's news and discussion with plenty of sound advice...
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Police can access phone location data without a warrant, US court rules
The decision leaves the country stuck with a mishmash of laws and privacy advocates who hope that the Supreme Court takes on the issue.
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Insulting cops online now illegal in Canadian town
One Facebook voice cries out in a resounding act of insulting civil disobedience: "Suck it up, buttercup!"
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Searchable database of members of intelligence community posted online
Transparency Toolkit's ICWatch uses Google search and search terms associated with surveillance activities and tools to put a human face on the surveillance state.
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Company posts ad looking for Windows support scammers
If you "Has a good grasp of English and Tell users all computer are infected", or better yet, if you get the joke, this company's actually got "Real Jobs and a knack for attracting a lot of hits".
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Apple updates Safari on OS X, fixes critical flaws
No sooner had we reported that Microsoft will adopt a "rolling update" model for Windows 10... ...than we received notice of Apple's latest "rolling update" for its Safari browser.
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NSA metadata collection is illegal, rules US court
Three appeal court judges have ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of metadata went far beyond the original intent of the Patriot Act.
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The USBKILL anti-forensics tool - it doesn't do *quite* what it says on the tin
A hacker who very modestly goes by the handle Hephaest0s has just announced an "anti-forensic kill switch" dubbed, well, usbkill. It doesn't do quite what the name might suggest, and it could cut...
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Surely not the "Virus DESTROYS Computer" story again? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Our weekly fun-but-serious one-minute security video. Malware hype, FTC action and some ancient history (well, the LOVE BUG)... enjoy.
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Monday review - the hot 20 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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Game hacker stripped, shamed and given in-game death sentence
Guild Wars 2 user DarkSide, who had spent weeks committing hacking workarounds such as teleporting and dominating player-on-player combat, was forced to leap to his virtual death from a high bridge.
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