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Facebook turns a deaf ear to users aged over 99
The social media behemoth apparently never assumed that a person with three digits worth of living to their credit would sign up to use its service.
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Microsoft admits it was also hit by hackers, malware infects their Mac...
Microsoft joins Facebook and Apple in the list of big companies who have suffered at the hands of malware-bearing hackers.
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Mandiant report, iOS coders owned, Twitter accounts hacked, and more......
Have your joined thousands of others, and become a loyal listener to the "Chet Chat" yet? Here's the latest Naked Security podcast, Sophos Security Chet Chat 103, discussing a range of recent and...
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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
Catch up with anything you might have missed last week – it’s weekly roundup time.
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No, Iran didn't really hack and down a foreign military spy drone
A report by the Islamic Republic News Agency has raised eyebrows, as it appeared to claim that Iranˈs Revolutionary Guard Corps had managed to hack and down a foreign spy drone. But did it really happen?
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Researchers claim to have found more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java
A security research team that has alerted Oracle to a series of security flaws in Java in the past, says that it has uncovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in the software.
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Talking Angela iPhone app scare spreads on Facebook
A warning spreads on Facebook about "Talking Angela", an app that gives your children some animated cat chat. Malheureusement, it's all too simple for people to share warnings - rather than check if...
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China blamed for EADS and ThyssenKrupp hack attacks
EADS, maker of the Eurofighter, says that Chinese hackers attacked its computer network last year. Is your company prepared reducing the likelihood of a successful targeted attack?
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Traveling to a conference? 8 security tips to keep top of mind
Conference season 2013 is on. While events like these can be great for networking and mindsharing, there can be computer security dangers lurking about. We've pulled together 8 IT security tips to help...
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100,000+ Americans demand legal right to unlock phone
On January 26, US citizens lost the right to unlock their mobile phones. On Thursday, a requisite number of disgruntled people had demanded that the administration examine the issue of giving them back...
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Technical paper: Exploring the history and technology of ransomware
A new technical paper from SophosLabs explores the history and technology of ransomware. From payment by SMS to public key encryption, ransomware has certainly evolved.
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Adobe tells users to update Flash Player for the third time this month
Adobe tells computer users to protect themselves against "targeted attacks" that are being "exploited in the wild". And that means patching Adobe Flash. Again.
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Targeted malware attack piggybacks on Nvidia digital signature
Gabor Szappanos from SophosLabs takes a detailed examination of a targeted attack involving multiple stages and an innocent signed application - from the social engineering in the initial lure, to the...
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Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered
You too can get into somebody's locked iPhone, particularly if you have a prehensile tail and don't mind (almost) placing a phony emergency call. Which you a) probably don't and b) hopefully do.
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Illegal music file sharing drops significantly since 2011
The number of people using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music fell by 17% last year, compared to 2011, according to a report released yesterday.
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Lessons to learn from the UGNazi hacking attacks against Mat Honan and...
Technology journalist Mat Honan and Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince have something in common - they've both been hacked by the UGNazi hacktivist group. And what they told the RSA Conference spells bad...
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Rihanna sex video event scam spreads on Facebook
Be on your guard if you see any of your Facebook friends post a message about an alleged Rihanna sex video.
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Google patches bug that allows attackers to slip past two-factor authentication
Attackers could - until Google issued a fix last Thursday, that is - bypass Google accounts' two-step login verification, reset a user's master password, and gain full profile control, just by...
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Bloggers' Awards at RSA - Naked Security scoops Best Corporate Security Blog...
Fellow Naked Security writer and industry stalwart Graham Cluley just emailed from San Francisco to tell us that we won the Best Corporate Security Blog in the 2013 Security Bloggers' Awards! Way to...
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Webhosting management company cPanel suffers break-in, lets slip customers'...
Webhosting management company cPanel recently announced a worrying sort of compromise: the possible theft of its customers' root passwords. Paul Ducklin looks at what happened, and what's being done to...
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