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Fake Plants vs Zombies and other Android games infiltrate Google Play store,...
Is Google doing a good enough job of policing apps in the official Android app store? It seems not.
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1 "terrific employee" + 1 thumb drive + 6,000 lost medical records = fired!
A woman called a "terrific employee" by her boss was fired after downloading 6,000 medical records onto a USB drive that she then lost. Whose fault is it, really? Perhaps if the company had technology...
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It's really important you update your Foxit PDF Reader, but unfortunately...
There's something to be said for not going with the crowd, when it comes to securing your computer. But you best have your fingers crossed that your alternative providers' websites don't fall over when...
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Backdoor Trojan disguised as flight confirmation email hits German internet...
German internet users should be on their guard today, after malware was widely spammed out posing as a flight confirmation from Lufthansa.
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Computer science student first praised, then expelled for poking around
Within two days of finding and reporting a hole in the college's student portal that would have given out personal info of more than 250K students, the student's subsequent scans incurred the college's...
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PWN2OWN - hack the Big Four browsers in public and go home with half a...
Only six weeks to go until PWN2OWN 2013, where you can hack the Big Four browsers and the Big Three plugins, and win over half a million dollars. But is it just about the money? Paul Ducklin...
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Burglar who stole Steve Jobs's iPad gets seven years
Kariem McFarlin pleaded guilty to a range of burglary offences including one of the home of Steve Jobs's widow. He got seven years. How do you think this compares with cybercrime sentencing?
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Vote Naked Security for best security blog
Naked Security and the Sophos Security Chet Chat could be nominated for awards at this year's Social Security Blogger Awards. Will you help us out by voting for us?
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Spam of the Day - "lovely girl seeks Skype contacts for welding machine hookup"
We probably shouldn't say anything that sounds even slightly positive about any of of the zillions of messages that pour into our spam collection every hour. But sometimes it's hard to resist thinking,...
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Kim Dotcom takes issue with critics taking issue with his new MEGA service
The party-time news of the past weekend was the launch of Kim Dotcom's comeback file sharing service, Mega. Crypto critics have already taken issue with some aspects of Mega's implementation, and...
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Hard to believe, but Viagra spam like this must actually work
Not all cybercriminal activity is sophisticated. It doesn't have to be clever in order to earn money for the bad guys. If you never buy goods promoted via spam, life becomes much harder for the...
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Revenge-porn website victims launch action against Texxxan and GoDaddy
Payback's a b*tch. For one website, that payback's being sought by 17 women claiming invasion of privacy and mental anguish. They want the site shuttered, and they want the lowlives to pay, even if...
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Oracle, please stop sneakily foisting third-party toolbars on us with your...
If you're installing a critical security update on your computer, caused by the software vendor's sloppy code quality, you probably wouldn't dream that your software vendor is trying to make some money...
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Bank-raiding Gozi malware - three men charged in New York
The DoJ has published five "charging documents" filed in New York yesterday against three men accused of operating a bank-raiding malware enterprise. The documents give a fascinating insight into a...
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Kim Dotcom's coders hacking on Mega's cryptography even as we speak - true...
Kim Dotcom's new venture, Mega, wants to shield itself from accusations of failing to take action against piracy. It does so by using cryptography to make sure it doesn't see, and indeed cannot tell,...
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Sony fined £250,000 after hackers gained access to millions of gamers' details
"There’s no disguising that this is a business that should have known better," says ICO director. How many headlines do there have to be before companies take data security more seriously?
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Wow. Mickey Rourke has died snowboarding, just like Sylvester Stallone, Jim...
Despite what you may have read on the internet, Mickey Rourke has *not* died in a snowboarding accident.
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Arsenal Lotto scam spammed out via PowerPoint file
Scammers use desperate measures in their attempt to trick you into believing you have won a lottery run by Arsenal Football Club.
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Do programmers understand the meaning of PRIVATE?
Public-key encryption relies on a pair of cryptographic keys, one public and the other private. You'd think that programmers would be able to tell which one to keep private and which one to make...
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Convicted sex offender let off the hook for child abuse image collection
Inadvertent exposure of files on an unsecured wireless network doesn't justify the search that found them, an Oregon judge ruled, reversing his previous conviction of a sex offender.
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