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Anatomy of a bug - how Mac OS X chokes if you say "FILE"
Heard about the OS X bug that crashes programs if you display the text FILE colon slash slash slash? (We're not going to write it here in full, just in case!) It's an intriguing problem - Paul Ducklin...
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Facebook will be closed for maintenance between Feb 29-31 - joke chain letter...
Messages have been spreading on Facebook claiming that the social network will be closed between February 29th and February 31st, 2013. And, of course, it's kinda true. Don't try to log in on June 31st...
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Twitter looking to hire two-factor authentication brains
Just a few days after Twitter reset passwords and revoked session tokens for 250,000 possibly hacked user accounts, the king of social media succinctness has apparently taken its first step toward...
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China is still hacking the Wall Street Journal, claims Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch claims that the Wall Street Journal is still being troubled by hackers, after a week of Chinese hacking revelations.
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The top 10 cracked ciphertexts from history
A cipher is a method for encrypting messages to keep them safe from prying eyes. Here's our round-up of the top notable ciphertexts that have been cracked in the last five thousand years.
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US Federal Reserve confirms it was hacked during the Super Bowl
An internal Federal Reserve site was hacked on Sunday. The personal details on 4,000 US bankers were exposed.
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Whitepaper: Security questions for your web hosting provider
Here are 10 questions you should be asking your hosting provider about features and services that will help to keep your site secure, covering general security practices, application security and...
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Boffins 'crack' HTTPS encryption in Lucky Thirteen attack
The security of web transactions is again in the spotlight as a pair of UK cryptographers take aim at TLS. Like 2011's much-talked-about BEAST attack, it has a groovy name: Lucky Thirteen.
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Forget the Superbowl - here comes a giant Mersenne prime, all 17,425,170...
Forget the Superbowl or the Stanley Cup. For a real edge-of-the-seat thrill, you can't beat armchair mathematics...
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Bamital botnet dismantled, as Microsoft seizes control of malware servers
Security experts at Microsoft, working with others in the computer security industry, have disrupted a botnet being used by the Bamital malware family. Here's how you know if *you* need to take any...
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Adobe patches Flash - heads off in-the-wild attacks against Windows and Apple...
It's not Tuesday... Nevertheless, Adobe's Flash Player has been upgraded to patch against two in-the-wild exploits against Windows and Apple users.
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How Justin Bieber's name is used by internet perverts
In response to an increased number of sexual blackmailers harassing and terrorising young girls online, the FBI has published tips to help young people better protect themselves. We also added a few...
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Infosec pros give verdict on EU’s new cybersecurity strategy: "Nice try"
The European Commission on Wednesday launched a proposal for a new cybersecurity strategy with good intentions and great fuzziness, as some dissatisfied infosec professionals see it.
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Sarah Ferguson, Hugh Grant and Doctor Who win substantial damages after...
Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew, is one of more than 100 people who have received significant payouts in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
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Acai Berry fake news website operators fined millions of dollars by FTC
The firm behind fake websites such as "News 6 News Alerts," "Health News Health Alerts," or "Health 5 Beat Health News" has had to cease its deceptive operations after it was fined by the FTC.
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Microsoft readies monster-sized security patch for Windows users
Patch Tuesday is approaching, and for users of Microsoft's software it's going to be a monster. Make sure that you patch Internet Explorer as soon as possible.
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Bit9 hacked, used to inject malware into customers' networks
Security vendor Bit9 has been hit by a serious security breach of its own network. Intruders broke into a core part of the company's service and used its own trusted digital certificates to create...
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Anatomy of a vulnerability - cURL web download toolkit holed by...
You may not have heard of cURL, but you've probably used software that uses it. Recent versions contain a buffer overflow bug that could lead to remote code execution on your computer. Paul Ducklin...
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Monday review - the hot 27 stories of the week
Just in case you missed any of our stories last week, here's a little recap.
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Mega's bug bounty program - one week down, "a few billion billion years" to go
Mega, the cloud storage service brought to you by Kim Dotcom, has released the first feedback on its bug bounty program. It's only a week in, so the major prizes haven't been scooped yet...and Mega's...
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