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North Korea uses infected games to DDoS South Korea
South Korean police have arrested a man from Seoul on suspicion of working with North Korea to develop games infected with spyware.
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DHL International Delivery email? Beware widespread malware attack
A widespread malware campaign that has been spammed out across the internet today, posing as an email from DHL.
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Hacking businesses via your iPad can be all fun and games
Limit your malicious hacking to entertaining games like Uplink. At least there you're not doing any real harm, and aren't going to end up behind bars.
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Apple: Androids are much less likely to be running an up-to-date OS than...
Over 80% of iPhone and iPad users are running iOS 5. That compares to a paltry 7% of Android customers who are up-to-date and running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on their smartphones and tablets.
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WWDC 2012 keynote highlights Apple security strengths and weaknesses
Apple's announcement about new products at WWDC 2012 was peppered with information related to security and privacy, Joshua Long reports.
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UK police hunting down thousands who bought identity fraud packages from...
Met Police are looking for the 11,000 customers who bought fake IDs, driving licences, bank statements, tips on how to commit fraud and other illegal files from the site.
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Security fears around remote working, the cloud and wireless networks cited...
The days of IT managers simply worrying about the security of the network inside their physical offices are long gone. Cloud services, mobile devices, wireless networks and a remote workforce are...
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Fake Twitter rumours spread of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's death
Hosni Mubarak, the disgraced former president of Egypt, may be seriously ill in jail, but - at the time of writing - he isn't dead.
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Beware fake Facebook notifications arriving in your email
Many Naked Security readers have been in touch asking about emails they have received, claiming to come from Facebook.
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Anatomy of a bug - the MySQL authentication disaster (patch now!)
What if your authentication system itself were at fault? You could have the hardest-to-guess password, salted and hashed thousands of times, and still be at risk. That's what happened to MySQL and...
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Patch Tuesday June 2012 - Critical updates for IE, RDP, .NET, Flash and Java
It's Patch Tuesday and there are a bunch of critical advisories this month for Internet Explorer, RDP, Windows, Adobe Flash Player and Oracle Java.
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Free virus removal tool: 27% found malware missed by existing anti-virus
Sophos's free virus removal tool has been updated and reissued, thanks to feedback from Naked Security readers. It now is 20% faster and has better detection and clean-up capabilities.
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Microsoft and Yahoo are selling us to politicians, Facebook and Google are...
Microsoft and Yahoo are selling politicians the ability to target online ads to voters by name, zip code and other data they've collected from us.
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Giant snakes eating zookeepers and unwatchable videos - Facebook hit again by...
Facebook users are once again suffering from an onslaught of clickjacking survey scams, designed to fool them into unwittingly saying they "Like" a link to drive web traffic that simply fills the...
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VIDEO: How to solve the AusCERT 2012 #sophospuzzle
By popular demand, here is a video explaining how to solve the puzzle we published on our AusCERT 2012 conference T-shirt. 44 solvers from 14 countries cracked it in the time allowed - find out how...
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Revealed! The top five Android malware detected in the wild
No-one is in any doubt that Android malware is on the rise - but what is the most commonly encountered malware on the platform? Find out, and download a free anti-virus for your Android device.
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FBI claims that Tor stymied child abuse investigation
A recently published Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request has revealed that in at least one case, the US police's hunt for online child pornographers has been hindered by Tor.
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Macs and malware - See how Apple has changed its marketing message
Apple has changed the wording on its website regarding Mac OS X and malware. Find out what they said before, and what they say now...
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Father's Day spam floods in, pointing to gambling websites
SophosLabs has intercepted a large number of "Buy your dad a cigar" spam messages, currently being spread across the internet in the run-up to Father's Day this weekend.
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LulzSec hacking suspect Ryan Cleary now faces charges in the USA
The sorry saga of Ryan Cleary, now 20 years old and an alleged hacker from the group LulzSec, continues to unfold. Arrested in the UK, charged, released and then re-arrested, Cleary now faces federal...
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