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Stolen webcam video listed at $1 per female victim, $1 per 100 male victims
Do only the truly paranoid stick bandages over their webcams so they don't get surreptitiously recorded? Well, a BBC producer posing as a computer security enthusiast talked to webcam hackers who said...
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Anatomy of a cryptoglitch - Apple's iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50...
If you use your iPhone or iPad as a Wi-Fi hotspot, don't let it generate the passphrase for you. A posse of German computer scientists has found that Apple's iOS passphrase generator may give you less...
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LinkedIn unhacked, Microsoft bounties, Java in your browser - 60 Sec Security...
It's that time again - time for this week's 60 Second Security, our fun-but serious "security news with a conscience" video series. Give it a spin...it'll only take a minute.
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Facebook issues data breach notification - may have leaked your email and...
Facebook just published a data breach notification on its security blog. You might not immediately notice that from the title of the article, but the social networking giant is, indeed, reporting a...
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The day I caught an ATM card catcher
Ever found a card catcher in your local cash machine? A few years ago I did. They’re surprisingly easy to dismantle - but in my case, a little more thought should have been applied to the possible...
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
Missed anything last week? Don't worry, here's a little roundup of everything we wrote.
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Who is SophosLabs: Numaan Huq, Threat Researcher
SophosLabs is at the centre of Sophos. It's where highly skilled analysts work round the clock to build protection from the latest threats. But what kind of people work there?
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Using Tor and other means to hide your location piques NSA's interest in you
Those who use online anonymizing technologies to obscure their location are assumed to be non-US persons and should thus continue to be targeted by surveillance. That's one of many revelations coming...
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Canada's long-delayed spam laws risk being quietly shelved
Anti-spam legislation in Canada should have been in force several years ago but it's unlikely that the laws will have any teeth for several more years, and they may even fall by the wayside. So...
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Yahoo says unleashing people's old accounts will be fine, just fine
It will be OK, the company says. We're not giving away your content or personal details, and we're sending bouncebacks for a month. Has that convinced critics? Unlikely.
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Taking a closer look at the Glazunov exploit kit
In this article, Fraser Howard takes a look at Glazunov - an exploit kit that has been increasingly active in recent weeks. In this deep dive, readers can learn more about how these attacks operate.
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Google gets 35 days to wipe its WiSpy data
It sounds like the UK's ICO really, really means it this time, Google, in spite of this being the third time it's told you to ditch the Street View data.
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Europeans to get told about data breaches - sometimes
The EC has published new breach disclosure rules that exempt companies from disclosure if they're using encryption. It's an odd loophole, given how data handling can be bungled, encryption or no.
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Top executives out of touch with their company's IT security risks
The world's business leaders have high levels of confidence in their organisations' cyber defences, but that confidence is largely out of tune with reality, according to a recent report.
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What do you want to see on Naked Security?
We think it's about time we ask you about what YOU want from us. Have your say, and maybe win a t-shirt!
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Korean graphical designer in "font protest" against PRISM surveillance
About a year ago, a Korean graphical designer came out with an "anti-surveillance" typeface called ZXX, as a sort of protest against electronic eavesdropping. But, in the aftermath of PRISM, are there...
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US senators propose legislation to throttle NSA's domestic spying
Senator Patrick Leahy, along with other US senators, has introduced a bill to limit National Security Agency (NSA) spying on domestic targets. They're not asking for it to stop, mind you - just that it...
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Google scans Chrome Web Store submissions for malware
The process may hold up submissions, Google says, but no cause for freak-out. The scan shouldn't ever take more than an hour, it says - time well spent for the greater security good.
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Firefox 22.0 closes a modest bunch of not-yet-exploited holes
As usual, there's a handy mixture of important-sounding security fixes and some interesting new features. No yet-known vices, so why not ensure you've got the update right away?
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Opera breached, has code cert stolen, possibly spreads malware - advice on...
Norwegian-based browser maker Opera has announced a network intrusion. Users *may* have been infected with malware by an Opera update. Paul Ducklin offers advice on what to do...
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