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Sysadmin day? *SYSADMIN DAY*? Angry techie takes against Naked Security...
No sooner had we launched our "Worst things to ask a sysadmin" poll than we received an anonymous email from a disgruntled sysadmin called Simon Oliver Meone. He questioned the relevance of the...
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Data Breach Week, SIMs cracked, carders busted - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How safe is the SIM in your mobile phone? Could it be remotely infected with malware? Possibly - watch this week's 60 Second Security video and find out more!
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Should the "Reboot! Shut up and reboot!" theory be applied to programs?
Tech-savvy website Ars Technica recently invited comments on an interesting thought about programming. "Should programs randomly fall on their swords?"
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Monday review - the hot 20 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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LinkedIn closes OAuth hole that could have let people tinker with your CV
Heaven forbid a malware author erases your years of slaving as a sysadmin.
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PRISM: 50% of Americans approve of NSA's internet spying program
Half of Americans approve of their government's collection of telephone and internet data as part of anti-terrorism efforts even though they believe PRISM goes further than they have been told.
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Win cool prizes in the BlackHat 2013 #sophospuzzle!
Delegates at BlackHat can enter in person to win a 3D printer from Cubify. Naked Security readers can enter by email to win a remote controlled tank. What are you waiting for?
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White House mulls waving cash at businesses to get them to beef up cybersecurity
Specifically, the US government is reportedly thinking about tax breaks, insurance perks and limited lawsuit protection for organizations that opt in to standards that are now getting hammered out.
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$300 million 'superhackers' are not so super after all
Two of the five men that were part of "the largest ever hacking and data breach scheme in the United States", were caught thanks to some pretty obvious carelessness, posting their holiday snaps online...
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Who likes porn sites better than Facebook or Twitter?
Recent numbers from a web measurement company that tracks our online clicks show that fingers prefer dreamily wandering to porn sites over hanging out on social networks.
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UK report: Banks let e-criminals pinch gobs of money underneath the law's nose
A new government report blames a "black hole" wherein banks don't report fraud to investigators and/or investigators just don't bother to pursue the crooks. Instead, banks just reimburse customers. We...
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Personal data on 72,000 staff taken in University of Delaware hack
The University of Delaware has joined the long line of recent data breach victims, with a compromised university system yielding personal information on 72,000 past and present employees. UD...
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Making progress with the BH2013 #sophospuzzle - some early questions answered
I'll try not to give away too much at this stage, but for those of you trying the #sophospuzzle, here are some answers to questions that have been asked more than once each already. Including, "Why did...
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Bradley Manning: guilty of espionage but not aiding the enemy. But was...
Bradley Manning was found guilty on multiple charges of espionage, theft, computer fraud, violating a lawful general regulation and one charge of wanton publication of intelligence on the internet but...
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$80 million yacht hijacked by students spoofing GPS signals
Students from the University of Texas/Cockrell School of Engineering successfully managed to spoof a ship's GPS signals, sending counterfeit signals that slowly, subtly overpowered the authentic GPS...
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ZeroAccess malware revisited - new version yet more devious
Guess what? The authors of the infamous ZeroAccess malware have pushed out another update, and this time they're using some interesting techniques to stay alive longer. James Wyke of SophosLabs...
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Newly exposed NSA tool, XKeyscore, sees 'nearly everything we do online'
The only thing US surveillance needs to read the contents of your email, with no prior authorization whatsoever, is your email address. Are we sick of PRISM yet, or do we still have room for outrage?
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Rabid trolls prompt Twitter to promise 'Report Abuse' button on all messages
Following the savagery unleashed by trolls on a UK journalist who managed to get a woman's face onto a banknote, then further bomb threats to other female journalists, and the subsequent outrage and...
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Malware alert while seeking child abuse images at work earns US man 5 years...
A five-year jail term has been handed to a US man found downloading and watching child abuse imagery at work. Authorities were apparently alerted to his activities when his company computer was hit by...
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Good morning, Las Vegas! Some genuinely serious hints to finish the...
C'mon BlackHatters! You're way behind the Rest Of World in solving the #sophospuzzle. There's still time to win that 3D printer! With these hints, there is no excuse...
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