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Windows Phone 8 malware? This teen hacker claims to have created a prototype
A teenage hacker prodigy in India claims to have developed a prototype of malware that will run on smartphones running Microsoft's new Windows Phone 8 operating system - the first known instance of...
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New variant of Mac Trojan discovered, targeting Tibet
The malware threat on Macs is real, and should not be underestimated.
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday - there's even a patch for your Mac!
Patch Tuesday has come around again. The fixes cover Internet Explorer, Excel (on Windows and Mac), the kernel itself, and more. Here's advice on the what, the why and the where...
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Papa John's pizza chain accused of SMS cheesiness, faces $250M class action
US pizza chain Papa John's is in the firing line of a class action lawsuit over SMS marketing. The lawyers are saying that this could be one of the largest awards of its sort, at over $250 million -...
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Petraeus tripped up by trust in supposedly anonymous email account
The US's top spy guy, who resigned abruptly on Friday, conducted a romantic affair behind the thin sheet of a pseudonymous email account. It's a good reminder to us all that email headers often spill...
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Skype users warned of serious security problem - accounts can be hijacked...
A serious security problem has been uncovered in Skype, which allows hackers to hijack accounts just by knowing users' email addresses.
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Facebook Black? Beware widespread scam hitting social networkers
Want to change your Facebook from blue to black? Maybe it's time to exercise a little self-restraint, because scammers are hard at work tricking users into completing their money-making scams.
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Google: Government surveillance of the internet is on the rise
Google has released its semi-annual Transparency Report, saying that it received more than 20,000 requests for user data in the first half of 2012 - a sign of greater government surveillance.
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iOS dictionary apps posting false piracy "confessions" onto users' Twitter...
An iOS dictionary application has rewarded those who bought it by hijacking their Twitter feeds to post cooked-up piracy confessions. The Japanese maker of the dictionary apps has apologised and posted...
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Cracked passwords from the alleged 'Egyptian hacker' Adobe breach
An allegedly Egyptian hacker going by the name ViruS_HimA has allegedly hacked into Adobe. Wherever the data actually comes from, it reveals yet more poor password hygiene at both the client and the...
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How to report a computer crime: SQL injection website attack
What would you do if your website was compromised by SQL injection? Do you know how you would go about reporting the crime to the authorities?
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TNS24 - a fake courier company website, used by online scammers
Look out for Photoshop disasters by fraudsters and scammers.
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NASA suffers major data breach over stolen laptop that wasn't encrypted
The space agency is now, finally, after yet another unencrypted laptop theft, scrambling to require full disk encryption agency-wide.
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LinkedIn spam drives traffic to Toronto Drug Store
That email you just received from LinkedIn might be promoting a Thanksgiving sale of Viagra instead..
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Acai Berry scammers $2 million lighter after FTC settlement
The affiliate ad network behind a tidal wave of bogus pitches for Acai Berry weight loss products and colon cleansers has agreed to pay a $2 million penalty to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for...
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Microsoft pushes IE 9 tweak via Windows Update to close three critical...
Microsoft has reminded Internet Explorer users of the importance of keeping their browser updated against security threats.
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Blackhole confusion. Custom builds or copycats?
Are some of the different variants of Blackhole exploit kit that SophosLabs are seeing actually new versions of this popular Exploit kit? Or simply copycats created by other groups?
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FreeBSD shutters some servers after SSH key breach
FreeBSD has announced a smallish system compromise. The FreeBSD administrators took a bunch of servers offline to investigate, and published a blow-by-blow account of what they know about the breach so...
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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
Here you go. All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
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Facebook finally enables HTTPS by default, we give away free T-shirts to...
Thumbs up to Facebook, which has announced it is finally enabling HTTPS by default for its users. We celebrate by giving away some T-shirts..
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