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NOT OK, Google! Privacy advocates take on the Chromium team and win...
Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google's Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on... ...that listened to your microphone.
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Now you can avoid email sender's remorse with Gmail's 'Undo Send' feature
Wrong recipients and forgotten attachments could soon become a thing of the past with Gmail's new 'Undo Send' feature.
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Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women's consent
"Come at me Aussie police," the uploader jeered, threatening to repost the images to the Deep Web.
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Blackshades RAT co-author sentenced to 57 months in prison
Alex Yucel, co-creator of the Blackshades Remote Access Trojan (RAT), has been sentenced for selling and distributing the malware since 2010.
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CryptoWall ransomware cost US victims at least $18 million, FBI says
The CryptoWall variant of crypto-ransomware cost US businesses and consumers at least $18 million between April 2014 and June 2015. The total damages could be much higher.
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DEA agent who lined his pockets with Silk Road bitcoins pleads guilty
Carl Force confessed to routing bitcoins into his own accounts while investigating the black market site.
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SSCC 204 - You want an extension to your extension for Windows XP? [PODCAST]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly security podcast, the award-winning Chet Chat. Enjoy!
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Suspected mastermind behind mass ATM heist spree finally extradited to US
18 months after his arrest, the Turkish national accused of masterminding a worldwide string of ATM heists netting as much as $55 million has been sent to the US to face trial.
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Java updater to stop pushing Ask Toolbar, will foist Yahoo search on you instead
Oracle's Java, infamous in the past for bundling the Ask Toolbar as part of its install and update processes, is ditching Ask in favour of Yahoo's search engine.
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Samsung updates back in the news - for breaking Windows updates
A 22-year-old Microsoft MVP has hit the media spotlight with a blog article about Samsung updates - and it's not good news for Samsung!
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Can you trust Tor's exit nodes?
Tor is the encrypted, anonymous way to browse the web that keeps you safe from prying eyes, right? Well, maybe not. Researcher Chloe created a honeypot website and dared Tor's exit node operators to...
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Stolen logins for US government agencies found all over the web
A CIA-backed company has discovered government login credentials for 47 agencies dumped on the open web.
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Privacy outcry over proposal to reveal website owners' identities
An ICANN proposal would strip the rights of commercial site owners to use proxy services to shield their identities: a move the EFF says comes from copyright-hungry entertainment companies.
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Apple tweaks iOS 9 to stop advertisers getting our app data
Developers and advertisers have been eyeballing the apps we download to target-pitch their own wares. Apple are shuttering the peepshow.
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Serious Security: Understanding the 'P' in 'VPN'
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. But that doesn't necessarily mean "private" as in privacy. Paul Ducklin helps you understand the various levels of 'P' in 'VPN.'
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Court orders Facebook to identify revenge porn poster
The social network has been ordered by a Dutch court to either identify the uploader of a sex video or open its servers up to an independent investigator.
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Encrypt like everyone's watching! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
There's a Sophos T-shirt that warns you, "Dance like nobody's watching. Encrypt like everyone is." We aren't kidding, folks, and this week's 60 Second Security tells you why!
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Siri "9/11 conspiracy theory" joke is no laughing matter, say police
With 9/11 and 911 having the same sequence of digits, you don't have to waste police time by seeing what Siri does when you say "9/11."
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Monday review - the hot 28 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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Private eye jailed for hacking email of Scientology critics and others
Eric Saldarriaga pled guilty to prying open the accounts of over 50 people, including prominent Scientology critics Mike Rinder and Tony Ortega.
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