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"Nej till Google!" - Sweden tells a local council that Google's cloud is a...
Swedish bureaucrats have instructed a town in the Scandinavian country to say "No" to Google. They object to the leeway over customer data that Google grants itself in its cloud contracts...
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UK political bigwigs demand return of snoopers' charter. Seriously? Today?
In a stirring display of bad timing, a cluster of top UK political figures has issued a public letter insisting on the revival of the so-called "snoopers' charter" - legislation to give British police...
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PRISM, UK Surveillance, Sweden vs. Google, Blackberry Z10 - 60 Sec Security...
Do you really need to worry about things like privacy and security? Here's the latest in our 60 Second Security video series, bringing you fast, incisive and entertaining evidence that says, "Yes, you...
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Get ready! Oracle to fix 40 holes in Java on Tuesday, 18 June 2013
There's a Java update coming next Tuesday, 18 June 2013, and you might as well get ready for it now if you haven't already. Oracle has fixed 40 holes, all but three of them remotely exploitable.
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Australia's National Consumer Fraud Week starts today - the motto is,...
Do you know someone who's been scammed online? Chances are that you do - or you may have been scammed yourself. The National Consumer Fraud Week aims to spread the word about how to avoid becoming a...
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Monday review - the hot 16 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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FDA tells medical device makers and hospitals to strengthen security
The FDA hasn't seen patient deaths or injuries, but it has seen malware clogging up hospital equipment, passwords passed around like candy, and disregard for updating/patching old equipment.
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US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones
They are demanding a switch on our smartphones that would theoretically brick them after they're stolen. But would it be effective?
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SSCC 111 - PRISM and data leakage, encryption, Google contracts and Flash on...
Episode #111 of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast is here. Chet and Duck are back, wrangling the latest security stories into an entertaining and informative quarter-hour of useful news.
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Apple chimes in with the "Ain't no PRISM here!" chorus
Apple has joined in with the PRISM surveillance saga, insisting that nobody has direct access to its servers and that even it can't read customers' end-to-end encrypted conversations.
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Yahoo's going to boot us off our deadbeat accounts, but who is going to grab...
Get thee to your unused Yahoo account before July 15 if you don't relish the thought of somebody taking control of your handle and doing heaven knows what with whatever email gets sent to it.
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Kentucky man charged with using scans of checks to double-dip funds
The crime was allegedly carried out with the help of mobile remote deposit capture, which entails sending a scan or photo of your check to your bank, leaving the original paper copy to, evidently, burn...
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EU's Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate
A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union's plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don't provide enough protection for personal data. He's also suggested that too little...
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Texas becomes first US state to ban warrantless email snooping
Texans now enjoy greater email privacy than any other state in the union, some are saying. Republicans and liberals alike rejoice.
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Facebook's untimely block on Tor mistakenly freaks out activists
Tor login to Facebook has been restored, ending a brief spate of panic over the prospect of political activists being blocked from logging in via the encrypted and anonymous network.
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Privacy officials from six nations want answers about Google Glass
The privacy officials of six countries and the European Commission have a host of questions about Google Glass, wouldn't mind getting their hands on the devices, and are wondering why, exactly, Google...
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Oracle and Apple update Java - zapping browser Java would already have...
As promised last week, Oracle shipped a Critical Patch Update for Java on Tuesday 18 June 2013. Apple, which offers its own builds of Java, updated at the same time. Paul Ducklin takes a look...
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The LinkedIn hack that wasn't
Bryan Berg, the co-founder of microblogging site App.net, pronounced earlier today that LinkedIn had been hacked. That turned out to be not quite correct, as Paul Ducklin explains.
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Microsoft ready to cough up (potentially big!) bounty bucks for bugs
If you're good at finding exploits and know your way around a whitepaper, you could be looking at a $150,000 bonus.
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Hey board directors, help your companies fight cybercrime - and yes, it matters
According to a recent report by the ICSA, boardrooms need to "wake up" to the danger of cybercrime, as their buy in is vital to ensure companies are prepared to face cyber threats.
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