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Report: 94% of US hospitals suffered data breaches, and 45% had quintuplets
Competent healthcare providers are great at medical things. Securing electronic devices or health records? Not so much, the Ponemon Institute finds.
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Facebook won't donate money for boy's life-saving surgery after he saved his...
Seriously - would Facebook really donate 45 cents everytime someone shares a story about a boy saving his six-year-old sister from rape? Please don't believe everything you read on Facebook.
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Practical IT: are your firewalls in the wrong place?
Firewalls have come a long way in the last 15 years. But today's standard architecture might leave something to be desired and we talk about what firewall administrators want to look at.
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Turkish Certificate Authority screwup leads to attempted Google impersonation
Another Certificate Authority has been caught out having issued certificates that were being used to impersonate Google. Does the SSL padlock not mean we are safe anymore?
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How a regular IT guy helped catch a botnet cybercriminal
Veteran cybercrime investigator Bob Burls looks back on a case where the diligence of an IT professional helped convict a botmaster who had made tens of thousands of dollars.
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Think before you drink before you drive before you Facebook
After the New Year's Eve celebrations, a drunken young man crashes his vehicle into another car. Does he stop? No. He posts about it on Facebook instead.
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"Julian Assange of Wikileaks arrested in London" hoax
Controversial Wikileaks pinup Julian Assange has been arrested after slipping out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London to seek medical treatment at a nearby clinic. Or has he?
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Monday review - the hot 17 stories of the week
OK, these aren't just the hot 17 stories of the past week, but of the two weeks before that, too. If, like us, you've been enjoying some downtime over the Christmas and New Year holidays, here's your...
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Man pretends to be woman on internet, recovers lost phone in double-quick time
How far would you go to recover a mobile phone you'd left in a taxi? New York trombonist Nadav Nirenberg went further than most...
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DHS website falls victim to hacktivist intrusion
Hacktivist group NullCrew recently announced a succesful intrusion against a website in the DHS.GOV domain hierarchy. It looks as though the site was vulnerable to what's known as a directory traversal...
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John McAfee says he infected laptops with malware, spied and stole passwords...
John McAfee claims he gave Belize officials cheap laptops that had been deliberately pre-infected with keylogging spyware, and ran a team of 23 women to seduce and spy on his intended targets.
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Internet Explorer zero-day exploit found on more websites. Fingers point...
SophosLabs, has uncovered two new sites which have been hit by the recently discovered Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability - a community seeking independence from China, and an Iranian oil firm's...
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Smart octogenarian foils scammer who said he would buy item via PayPal
A man in his eighties tries to sell a generator for his friend online. When a potential buyer asks to send his payment through via PayPal - what could possibly go wrong?
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Windows RT "jailbroken", shows its Windows 8 roots
A security researcher has discovered a way to allow any code to run on Windows RT/Surface tablets, effectively "jailbreaking" Microsoft's latest foray into mobile computing.
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The TURKTRUST SSL certificate fiasco - what really happened, and what happens...
Was the TURKTRUST SSL fiasco an abortive attempt at secret surveillance, or a blundering crisis of convenience? Paul Ducklin takes stock of the situation...
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US-wanted "bank hacker" is all smiles as he is arrested at Bangkok airport...
An alleged hacker, suspected by the FBI of stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts, has been arrested by Thai police and paraded in front of the world's media.
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Using Yahoo Mail? You should turn on this privacy option as soon as possible
It has taken Yahoo a ridiculously long time, but it is finally rolling out an option that will help protect users' privacy when accessing their web-based email - HTTPS.
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Microsoft and Adobe issue first Patch Tuesday of 2013
The first Patch Tuesday of 2013 is here and there are plenty of important fixes to download including two critical Windows flaws and critical updates to Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player.
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Firefox 18 brings TURKTRUST update, Retina support, faster JavaScript - oh,...
Firefox 18 has landed: 2917 bugs patched, 21 security fixes, 12 critical. Also with a brand-new JavaScript compiler and support for Retina displays on the groovier sorts of Mac.
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Romanian payment card crook gets 21 months in the US - $10M losses inflicted...
Judgement Day for Romanian cybercriminal Cezar Butu. He'll serve 21 months in a US prison for his role in a $10M carding heist against sandwich giant Subway and other US businesses.
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