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Mac malware found in malformed Word documents - is China to blame?
Minority groups in China appear to have been targeted by a Mac malware attack, delivered via boobytrapped Word documents. Who could possibly be interested in targeting their computers?
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US child abuse image suspect shielded from decrypting hard drives
The federal magistrate found that forced decryption would violate the computer scientist's Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. It's no triumph for the agents who fight child abuse, but...
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How effective are data breach penalties? Are ever-bigger fines enough?
Since 2011, data security company ViaSat UK has spiced up the Infosecurity Europe conference by filing a Freedom of Information request for data breach statistics. In previous years they've fallen out...
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Suspect in massive Spamhaus DDoS attack arrested in Spain
A 35-year-old Dutch national, officially identified only as S.K., was arrested in Spain on Thursday. He is accused of DDoS attacks against Spamhaus and others. Who is S.K., do you think?
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50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial "special offers" site...
LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach. Another day, another shed-load of...
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Google tightens up Play Store policy, officially bans "off-market" updates...
Google has made a number of changes to its Android Play Store ecosystem recently. There's now a rudimentary anti-virus provided with the OS, a ban on ad blockers, and, most recently, an official policy...
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Catch up with all the security news from the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Apple iMessage "censors" mention of Obama: international conspiracy...or...
Try sending the message "I could be the next Obama" via the iMessage service from your iPhone or your iPad! Paul Ducklin takes a look at a humorous bug that teaches us some serious lessons...
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Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army is up to its dirty tricks again - this time hijacking Twitter accounts belonging to The Guardian.
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Troll admits to making death threats against children on Facebook
A 24-year-old UK man has admitted to posting threats on the Facebook tribute page of a teenager killed after being thrown from a truck. He told police he didn't think anybody would take the threats...
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Would you let a spammer give you a root canal? Sure you would!
When someone contacts you entirely for their benefit, out of the blue, and pitches you a concept that is peculiar at best, and outright alarming at worst... ...you really do find yourself thinking,...
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Thieves may have used GPS to track burglary victim
The owner of a jewelry store believes that one or more burglars stuck GPS devices on her car and on her son's car. That, she figures, enabled them to track when her house would likely be empty so they...
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"Wire transfer canceled"? Watch out for spammed-out malware attack
If you've received an email in your inbox telling you that your wire transfer has been cancelled, take care - as it's the latest attempt by online criminals to infect the general public's Windows...
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What WERE they thinking? Internet-enabled cameras under the security lens...
Vulnerability researchers at Core Security recently turned their attention on internet-enabled cameras, finding lots of holes. And when security holes arise from features, not bugs, you really do feel...
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How to rate a comparative anti-virus test - a six-step guide
It sometimes seems like anyone with a computer feels qualified to do comparative anti-virus testing. There are a lot of pitfalls to look out for, which often trip up unwary would-be testers and...
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CERN Geneva celebrates 20 years of the World Wide Web
It was twenty years ago today/That the World Wide Web came out to play... On 30 April 1993, CERN Geneva officially put the Web, and the early client and server side software that made it work, into the...
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German ministry replaced brand new PCs infected with Conficker worm, rather...
After computers in Germany became infected with the notorious Conficker worm, 170 of them were disposed of and replaced with new equipment at the taxpayers' expense. Wouldn't it have been easier (and...
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US seeks to pressure Google, Facebook et al. into installing wiretapping...
A new proposal would require tech firms to design surveillance-enabling trapdoors from the ground up or modify existing services, facilities and equipment. The FBI says it's necessary to quickly catch...
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Beware of encryption companies bearing gifts!
An iPhone messaging app that claims to be "totally secure" is offering a £10,000 prize to anyone who can intercept a message from it. Paul Ducklin wonders how you are supposed to win the prize if the...
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Reputation.com resets all user passwords following breach
Fortunately, the few passwords that were nabbed were salted and hashed. Also, the company doesn't request sensitive information such as Social Security Numbers and doesn't store financial data such as...
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