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Google Glass: the ultimate creepy stalker toy?
Google's internet-enabled head gear, due to be released this year, promises to be a privacy nightmare, what with the capability to surreptitiously record photos, video and audio of the wearer's...
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Chess CAPTCHA - a serious defence against spammers?
Spammers are told they have to solve a chess puzzle before they can leave junk messages.
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Mega-hack of celebrities exposes social security numbers, credit reports, and...
Beyoncé, Michelle Obama, Paris Hilton and more public figures have had their personal information exposed on the internet. But who is behind it?
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday - seven bulletins, four critical, three RCEs, and...
Microsoft's March 2013 Patch Tuesday is out. There are seven bulletins this month, dealing with twenty documented vulnerabilities. Paul Ducklin helps you choose where to start...
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Equifax and Transunion say hackers stole celebrity credit reports
After the social security numbers, addresses and financial details of some of the USA's top celebrities were posted online, top credit bureaus have come forward and acknowledged that fraudulent and...
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Skype in hot water over failure to let French police eavesdrop
French telecom regulators have suggested that Skype could face charges for failing to register as a telecom and do all the things that French telecoms are supposed to do - for example, let French...
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Adobe tells Windows and Mac users to install critical security updates for...
Computer users should be getting used to security updates for Adobe Flash by now - after all, this is the fourth in as many weeks. Make sure your computers are protected as soon as possible.
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Anatomy of a problem - Bitcoin loses 25% in value due to a long-missed bug
We've written before about Bitcoin problems caused by the exchanges that let you trade real money into and out of bitcoins. This time, it wasn't the surrounding ecosystem that turned out to have feet...
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Malware poses as booking confirmation email from Welsh seaside hotel
Heads up folks! A seaside hotel in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, has become the unwilling participant in a widespread malware attack spammed around the world. Don't be fooled into infecting your PC.
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Fake Pope on Twitter dupes thousands of followers, says he's loved more than...
Many people are following a Twitter account which claims to belong to the new Pope. And, as we all know, cybercriminals love to take advantage of a hot news story to spread attacks and dupe people into...
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HP printers in 1980s-style firmware misconfiguration boo-boo
US CERT has issued an intriguing Vulnerability Note about a data and password leakage flaw in a number of HP printers. It's a bit of a trip down memory lane, whisking us all the way back to one of the...
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INFOGRAPHIC: Users weighed down by multiple gadgets - survey reveals the most...
Just how many devices does the average person carry on them? Which country loves their laptops? And who will come out on top - iPhone or Android? See what our survey says about your most favorite gadgets.
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Google: Yep, our cars steamrolled your privacy
A $7 million fine imposed by 38 US states will settle an investigation into Google's grab of private data - including emails, text messages, browsing histories and passwords - from unsecured wireless...
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Google tells ad-blocking utilities on Android: "You're fired!" [POLL]
Today, Google did a Donald Trump, as good as saying to a number of popular ad-blocking programs, "You're fired!" Paul Ducklin investigates, and asks what this means for security vendors, who also aim...
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Oh dear. SophosLabs has upset some malware authors
Sometimes an insult can be amusing.. and even strangely complimentary. Here's something which raised a smile for researchers at SophosLabs.
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Bill Gates's social security number, address, credit report and more......
Bill Gates is the latest celebrity to have had his personal information published on a website that has exposed the social security numbers, addresses and personal financial information of a number of...
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Seagate's blog pushes malware on unsuspecting visitors via rogue Apache modules
SophosLabs has been tracking an infection of Mal/Iframe-AL on Seagate's blog since late February. Are you taking enough care of your company's websites?
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American retailer Genesco sues Visa, demands $13m in PCI-DSS data breach...
Genesco, a massive American retailer, suffered an intrusion by cybercrooks in 2010. It was subsequently "fined" over $10m by the payment card industry. Now it wants its money back...
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Do you read Naked Security via Google Reader?
If you follow Naked Security's RSS feed via Google Reader, and want to carry on reading the latest security news, you're going to have to start thinking about what you should do when Google shuts...
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NIST, US government's vulnerability database, brought down by ironic malware
The US's national vulnerability database has been offline for days thanks to multi-server infection inflicted by hacker(s) who really know how to hurt a infosec guy or gal.
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