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First pirate prosecution in New Zealand under "three strikes" law
The New Zealand copyright tribunal has imposed its first penalty under the country's "three strikes" file sharing regulations. Paul Ducklin explains what happened, and asks, "What do you think?"
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Chinese hackers break into the New York Times, steal every employee's password
Chinese hackers have been infiltrating the newspaper's networks, broken into the email accounts of senior staff, stolen the corporate passwords for every Times employee and used those to gain access to...
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A short history of hacking attacks against the media
The revelation of the Chinese hacking campaign against reporters working for the New York Times has raised awareness of targeted malware attacks, but what does the history of cyberattacks against media...
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Ticketmaster says goodbye to CAPTCHA
The world's largest online ticket retailer plans to stop torturing people's eyeballs by making them decipher illegible blobs of melted characters in order to prove they're carbon-based life forms.
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IE 10 is more secure, so here's a Microsoft tool to prevent you updating by...
Ironically, Microsoft is making sure that as soon as IE 10 is ready on Windows 7, you're already ready to avoid it. A sort-of "lesser of two evils" solution for change control conservatives.
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Apple (again) washes its hands of the Java mess
Apple's thrown in the towel on the Java mess and has, for the second time in two weeks, blocked all versions of Java on OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and later.
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Twitter hacked, at least 250,000 users affected: what you can do to protect...
Twitter is the latest web property to admit that intruders seem to have been wandering around its network for some time. Paul Ducklin investigates and offers some advice on what to do next...
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Facebook is turning facial recognition back on - so here's how to check your...
Facebook is turning its controversial facial recognition feature back on so that your "friends" can tag you more easily in photographs. Now would be a good time to revisit your photo tagging security...
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Questions and answers about the Twitter hack
Everything you need to know about the Twitter hack, and how you should respond to it - in simple English.
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Super Bowl scamday: survey scammers target Twitter
Twitter users mentioning the Super Bowl are being bombarded with scam tweets, don't click links promising free Super Bowl info.
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Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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Another Java update! Oracle brings Patch Tuesday forward to close in-the-wild...
"Yet another Java update! Get it while it's hot." This update was planned for 19 Feb 2013. But Oracle brought it forward, citing the "active exploitation 'in the wild' of one of the vulnerabilities...
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Facebook Class Action email - it looks like a phish but it's the real deal
A number of you have asked about a Facebook-related email that's doing the rounds lately. It certainly has some of the hallmarks of a phish. But is it? And how can you tell?
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Malware spammed out widely posing as income tax email
A widespread Trojan horse tricks users into opening it by posing as a tax return-related email. Are you taking enough care over your computer's security?
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US Department of Energy hacked, employees' personal information stolen
The US Department of Energy has been hit by a "sophisticated cyber attack" in the last few weeks, which resulted in the personal information of several hundred employees being compromised. Was China...
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DNSChanger malware suspect pleads guilty - faces 25 years and the prospect of...
Just over a year ago, the FBI announced the bust of six Estonians over malware known as DNSChanger. The first of the six has just pleaded guilty...
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Top 10 tips to keep your kids and teens safe online
Today is Safer Internet Day. And with 86% of 7-11 year olds and 96% of 11-19 year olds communicating online it's important everyone knows how to stay safe. So here are some tips for you to pass on to...
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Secret legal review grants US president broad power to launch internet attacks
A secret legal review of the US's growing pile of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has "broad power to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a...
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Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, tells all but his name [VIDEO]
Kai, a hitchhiker who used his hatchet to stop a man that thought he was Jesus Christ from killing people in Fresno, California, has become a YouTube sensation. And he also knows how to keep his...
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UPnP flaws turn millions of firewalls into doorstops
Researcher HD Moore published a paper last week showing that more than 23 million routers, TVs, cameras and printers are vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw in UPnP.
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