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Gun-wielding penguin takes over Ubuntu Forums, waves AK-47 at Linux users...
Ubuntu Forums has been hacked. As well as leaving behind an AK-waving penguin, the hackers also took away millions of usernames, email addresses and password hashes.
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Monday review - the hot 18 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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Apple takes Dev Center down for days, finally admits, "We got owned!"
Cynics speculated that recent "extended maintenance" on Apple's Developer Center was really shorthand for "we got owned." Apple has finally come out and admitted it...
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Why must political chiefs keep pushing the cyberwar alert button?
"There is a cyberwar going on", according to the UN's telecoms boss Hamadoun Toure. Cyber terrorism is capable of causing "mass destruction", says former director of the FBI Louis Freeh. Vladimir...
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Who is SophosLabs: James Wyke, Senior Threat Researcher
In the third post in our ‘Who is SophosLabs’ series, threat researcher James Wyke discusses the challenge of securing a mobile distributed workforce and his tips on how to stay safe online. We think...
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Ibrahim Balic takes credit for Apple Dev Centre "attack", but will he...
The Apple Dev Centre data breach has taken an intriguing turn, with a self-styled security researcher calling himself Ibrahim Balic taking the credit. He's even made a video showing what he did. But...
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Normal humans - aka "non-celebrities" - are telling Big Brother to go stick...
A legal publisher says that privacy actions against police, hospitals and security services in the UK are up 22% over last year. A few years back, it was mostly celebs who were trying to elbow the...
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Rooting SIM cards - BlackHat speaker says he may be able to "own your phone"...
Mobile security researcher Karsten Nohl says he'll explain at the BlackHat conference how he can remotely "own" mobile phones with a single text message. Paul Ducklin looks at what Nohl has said so...
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Ubuntu users, relax: the gun-toting penguin says s/he means no harm
Someone claiming to be behind the weekend's Ubuntu Forums gun-toting-penguin takeover has told users to "stop worrying about your passwords", it's just not worth the effort of unencrypting them.
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Will web censorship plans make your kids safer? [POLL]
Do you think that ISPs and search engines are doing enough to keep your children safe online? The UK government doesn't and so yesterday they went out to bat for the kids. Tell us if you think what...
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Lakeland hacked and passwords reset, customers advised to change passwords...
Lakeland has suffered a "sophisticated and sustained" attack in which two encrypted databases were accessed. It says it's found no evidence that data was stolen but has reset customers' passwords to be...
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Viber admits to swallowing 'Syrian Electronic Army' phishing bait
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claimed on Tuesday that it had taken over the support page for instant messaging/VoIP service Viber. Viber itself announced that the claims are overblown and that only...
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DHS to set up $6 billion one-stop security shop for government agencies
A fund of up to $6 billion has been set aside by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build a central repository of security tools and expertise for government use.
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A new place to chat about security threats
Sophos has launched a new 'Threat Awareness' forum - a place to discuss anything to do with computer security and share your own personal experience of security threats and cyber attacks.
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Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
System administrators we love you. Fancy a pizza party on us?
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Worst things to say to a sysadmin [POLL]
Take part in our light hearted poll of things you should avoid saying to sysadmins on any day of the year, not just System Administrator Appreciation Day.
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Help a sysadmin: Common ground for security professionals and system...
A natural conflict often arises between System Administrators and the Security team. So how can you make a sysadmin happy today? Despite the conflicting priorities, look a little deeper and you'll find...
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Five Gonzalez sidekicks charged with massive 160 million credit card number...
A US Attorney has announced charges against five men in connection with one of the biggest global data theft campaigns ever seen. Accused of working alongside Albert Gonzalez, currently serving 20...
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Ransomware tricks child sex abuse image addict into turning self in to cops
A US child abuse image collector turned himself in to police earlier this month, after ransomware hit his PC and showed messages warning him that the FBI were on to his nasty activities.
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Stanford University hacked, becomes latest data breach victim
Yet more passwords need changing, as America's prestigious Stanford University joins the long line of recent data breach victims. Although specific details remain scarce, an announcement from the...
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