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Hackers snatch $6.7m in South African cyber bank robbery
A mere three years after a South African bank spent $1.8 million on a new fraud-detection system, hackers managed to swindle $6.7 million out from under that system's nose. Although customer funds are...
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Romanian NASA hacker gets suspended three-year sentence
A Romanian who admitted to hacking into NASA servers has received a three-year suspended prison sentence. Being tried in the US wouldn't have guaranteed jail time, so here's hoping the Obama...
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Hacker exposes Grindr users' intimate information and explicit photos
A popular smartphone app used by the gay community to hook-up with similarly-minded people in their vicinity suffers from a serious security vulnerability that could expose personal information and...
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SSCC 80 - Mobile security podcast with Vanja Svajcer
In this week's podcast, Vanja Svajcer joins Chet to talk about the mobile security landscape. Topics discussed include mobile malware, theft, application markets and advice on securing your smartphone.
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Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S finally fall to jailbreakers
Apple's most hacker-resistant hardware to date - the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, which are built around the Apple A5 chip - can now be jailbroken. Should you rush to slither free of Apple's fiscal...
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Megaupload takedown makes headlines and waves as Mr Dotcom applies for bail
The FBI's takedown of file sharing site Megaupload continues to make both headlines and waves. Whether company founder Kim Dotcom turns out to be GUILTY or GOOD, he's certainly in a lot of trouble...
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DreamHost warns customers of possible password breach
A database server at DreamHost is illegally accessed by a hacker, and the passwords of some customers may have been compromised.
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Free Amazon.com gift card promotion is a Facebook scam
Gift card scams are a common sight on Facebook, and this weekend it has been the turn of Amazon.com to be the brand used by cybercriminals as a way of making them cash.
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Fake Camera+ app hits the iPhone App Store
Be careful what applications you install on your computing devices - even if they come from Apple's iPhone/iPad App Store.
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File sharing sites snapping shut like scared clams in MegaUpload backwash
File sharing sites appear to be panicking in reaction the the FBI's shutdown of the MegaUpload file sharing site. Read on for what each of them are doing to come into line with U.S. law.
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SSCC 81 - NCSA and Data Privacy Day
Chet sits down with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to discuss Data Privacy Day. Michael explains the origin of Data Privacy Day, some of the...
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Is the AnonyUpload file-sharing website for real?
In a bizarre marketing move, AnonyUpload explains why it's rubbish and that it's not a replacement for MegaUpload.
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Microsoft's Kelihos botnet suspect used to work for computer security firm
Microsoft has alleged that a computer security firm's ex-employee is the mastermind behind the Kelihos botnet.
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Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program
A Canadian resident has been sentenced to death in Iran for offending the faith, after his computer program was used without his knowledge to upload pornography.
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Hacking boardroom videoconferencing systems
Videoconferencing equipment is often left wide open for hackers to creep in and peep around organizations.
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Is your smartphone telling every website you visit your telephone number?
O2 mobile users in the UK are venting on Twitter today, fuming at their discovery that their phone number is being shared with every website that they visit over the network. But users of other mobile...
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Sophos Security Threat Report 2012 - seeing through the hype
We know you're probably sceptical of "state of the world" reports from vendors. For all you can tell, they'll turn out to be thinly-digsuised advertorial, unreconstructed product brochures, or worse....
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Chuck Norris is NOT dead - beware the Facebook scam!
Messages have been spread on Facebook claiming to link to a video news report of the death of awesome martial arts film star Chuck Norris.
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Symantec: Stop using pcAnywhere, right now
Symantec has admitted that blueprints for current versions of its pcAnywhere software were stolen in 2006 and that all users are at risk of attack and should pull the plug.
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Opinion: Google's privacy change - evil or business as usual?
Google says it will start tracking us across all its services - Gmail, Search, YouTube, etc. - and that it will share data on our activity across all of them. Does it put into question Google's motto,...
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