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Australian government announces its National Cloud Computing Strategy
The Australian government has officially published its National Cloud Computing Strategy. Sophos was involved in the committee that created this document...so we'd like to know what *you* think of it...
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PayPal refuses to pay bug-finding teen
A 17-year-old German student says he found a bug on PayPal's site but the company won't fork over the reward money. PayPal said someone had already found the bug but they also cited an age guideline...
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Digital currency Liberty Reserve shut down by US governement
This week US authorities shut down Liberty Reserve, an online currency favored by cybercriminals. Will enforcement actions have any real impact on the underground economy?
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Harvard dean who authorized secret search of faculty email to step down
The Harvard University dean who approved a secret search of faculty email to track down a media leak about student cheating will step down on July 1, the dean announced on Tuesday.
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Sorry? Is a US report recommending ransomware to target copyright thieves?
Should suspected copyright abusers really have their computers attacked with malware in a bid to retrieve stolen data?
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Android malware in pictures - a blow-by-blow account of mobile scareware
Fake anti-virus is mostly for Windows, with OS X a long way back in second place. But other operating systems aren't exempt from the depredations of cybercriminals. Paul Ducklin shows you round some...
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Facebook kicks out rape jokes and gender hate speech
Facebook is reviewing its attitude to pages which contain violent or hateful speech - it's giving them a fly-kick right to the curb.
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Android malware, Liberty Reserve, CSAW, Legal ransomware - 60 Sec Security...
Watch our 60 Second Security videos and arm yourself with anecdotes you can use when your friends or colleagues ask you, "Do I really need to worry about things like privacy and security?"
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Farewell Camino - pioneering Mac browser falls behind on security, reaches...
Camino, the first browser that was purposefully made for Apple's OS X, has officially reached the end of the road. The developers cited the pain of security updates as a key reason to wind up the project.
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Monday review - the hot 15 stories of the week
It's weekly roundup time. Here's all the great stuff we've written in the past seven days.
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Megaupload's Kim Dotcom gets back some of his seized property, and receives...
Kim Dotcom has won back the right to see all the evidence against him - before, rather than after, his possible extradition to the US to answer charges of racketeering, money laundering, online piracy...
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Not good enough, Oracle - promises to secure Java are too little, too late
In a big fat blog post, Oracle has promised to work harder to make Java more secure. But given the flood of high-profile, heavily-exploited vulnerabilities that have bobbed to the surface, can Oracle...
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Fake payment phishers busted in South Africa
It's more Cape of Storms than it is Cape of Good Hope for an alleged phishing gang reportedly busted in Cape Town in South Africa's Western Cape. The gang supposedly used a mixture of email and SMS to...
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LinkedIn flips the two-factor authentication switch
Just in time for the one-year anniversary of getting its socks knocked off in an attack that saw 6.5 million passwords swiped. Thanks: that's a good anniversary gift, LinkedIn.
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SSCC 110 - Skype "surveillance," piracy, small biz and cybersecurity...
For your two-weekly listening pleasure, here's the latest episode of the Chet Chat. Chet and Duck are back, and once again in fine form...
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Watch where you plug in, folks - researchers hack iPhones with a charger
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology plan to discuss their attack, dubbed "Mactans", and how it succeeded in compromising the latest generation devices with the latest version of iOS at...
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Cybercrooks use photo-sharing to plant malware in online auto ad scams, FBI...
Beware the auto seller on Craigslist who says he'll send photos on request - he could well be a crook who sends files packed with malware, the FBI has warned.
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Google's certificate announcement contains a hidden surprise for Windows XP...
Are you an IT administrator still caring for Windows XP computers that are running Internet Explorer? Google's latest announcement brings another good reason to upgrade your systems or switch to an...
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US orders Google to hand over user info to the FBI
The judge who decided that national security letters demanding user information were unconstitutional has now ordered Google to comply with the FBI's data demands. Is this just one more golden brick in...
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Apple's OS X and Safari get biggish security fixes
Apple has published updates for all supported versions of OS X and for Safari version 6. A largish number of remote code execution vulnerabilities have been patched, so these aren't just cosmetic fixes.
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