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Adobe security team posts public key – together with private key
2017-09-23 01:23:27If you generate an encryption keypair and you get a public key and a private key,Tracking phones without a warrant ruled unconstitutional
2017-09-22 18:48:53'Stingray use without a warrant violates 4th Amendment'Cryptomining or online ads – which one floats your boat? [VIDEO]
2017-09-22 17:58:33Is cryptomining in the background better than ads in the foreground as a way of earning money to "pay"News in brief: DDoS threat spam; Army logic bomber; Viacom leak
2017-09-22 17:52:05Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsUsing infrared cameras to break out of air-gapped networks
2017-09-22 16:36:11Invisible data exfiltration from isolated networksEquifax has been sending customers to a fake phishing site for weeks
2017-09-22 11:02:47A series of blunders to add to the Equifax breachHow BitPaymer ransomware covers its tracks
2017-09-21 17:41:47This BitPaymer malware variant uses tricks that you don't usually see in ransomware - but it still scrambles your files in the end.News in brief: Experian PIN fail; SEC hacked; AI vs terror
2017-09-21 17:13:42Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsHackers holds entire school district to ransom
2017-09-21 15:56:45The hacking group stole personal information and sent explicit death threats against children to their parents.“Admin from Hell” holds company to ransom with porn makeover
2017-09-21 11:01:18The IT admin demanded $10,000,Critical VMware vulnerability, patch and update now
2017-09-21 09:41:13The impact of this critical vulnerability has the potential to be great.Human failings undermine security – but who’s failing who?
2017-09-20 18:29:03A Ponemon survey puts “negligent employees” on the hookThe Apache “Optionsbleed” security hole explained [VIDEO]
2017-09-20 18:09:20If you're looking for a non-techie, plain English, verbal explanation of the Apache "Optionsbleed" security bug,News in brief: Twitter stops terrorists; WhatsApp stops UK gov; Russia stops Dark Web drugs
2017-09-20 17:05:27Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsPirate Bay hits users’ CPUs with secret cryptocurrency mining
2017-09-20 16:28:43They should have asked. If they had,Why SMS two-factor authentication puts your bitcoins at risk
2017-09-20 12:21:34Your name and phone number is all that's needed to intercept SMS 2FA and raid your bitcoin wallet.Apache “Optionsbleed” vulnerability – what you need to know
2017-09-19 17:38:19Remember Heartbleed, where servers could be tricked into letting other people's data slip? "Optionsbleed"News in brief: Linux advice for Equifax; fired over phish; Security.txt standard proposed
2017-09-19 17:20:39Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsApple’s new tracking protection is “sabotage”, claims ad industry
2017-09-19 12:33:16The ad industry is not happy with Apple's latest move to limit how we get tracked around the web.PyPI Python repository hit by typosquatting sneak attack
2017-09-19 11:10:20Imposters posing as popular packages were found to contain malicious codeDOJ lets itself off the privacy hook
2017-09-18 18:40:58The Department of Justice has excused its insider threat database from multiple provisions of the 1974 Privacy ActChrome to brand FTP as “not secure”
2017-09-18 17:13:38With the release of Chrome 63 in December 2017 FTP will be branded "not secure"Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
2017-09-18 08:04:01From Equifax's feeble PINs putting frozen credit files at risk and 4 steps to secure yourself to the latest updates on the breach,Vevo hacked, 3.12 TB of data leaked
2017-09-17 18:01:30The hacking group OurMine says it leaked the data after being told "f*ck off,India’s Aadhaar digital ID scheme: what could possibly go wrong?
2017-09-15 15:43:25India's digital ID scheme has enrolled more than 1bn people in under a decade - but there are concerns about its security and potential for abusePoisoned WordPress ‘Display Widgets’ plugin finally purged
2017-09-15 15:01:03If you've got the 'Display Widgets' plugin installed,Facebook’s Crisis Response hub centralizes help for disaster victims
2017-09-15 11:24:52Pulling all the crisis tools together should help those caught up in a disaster get help,News in brief: FTC to probe Equifax; Bitcoin price falls on China move; HBO teases GoT finale news
2017-09-14 18:08:58Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsEquifax: researchers find leaky customer help portal in Argentina
2017-09-14 17:13:22Researchers pulled thousands of records from site secured by a username and password of 'admin'Microsoft patches second FinSpy zero-day exploit this year
2017-09-14 15:22:49This week saw a veritable patchwork quilt of updates to Microsoft products - including one zero-dayEquifax felled by a months-old Apache Struts vulnerability
2017-09-14 15:05:16Patching vulnerabilities often means juggling risk and practicality - which can mean gambling with customer dataEquifax: four simple steps to secure yourself
2017-09-14 11:56:07Take these four steps to get through the Equifax breach with your identity and finances intactDHS faces lawsuit over legality of forced warrantless device searches
2017-09-14 11:26:42Plaintiffs including a veteran,News in brief: Cruz’s Twitter blunder; Adobe patches Flash
2017-09-13 17:51:32Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsGovernments must fix the digital identity mess, says think tank
2017-09-13 15:18:19Digital identity schemes are surely just around the corner - and they're already in place in India and Estonia.Smart pumps used by hospitals in IV drips vulnerable to attacks
2017-09-13 14:02:41Eight flaws were found in the pumps used to deliver precise doses of drugs - and where a misdose thanks to an attack could be fatalFears raised about accuracy of new forensic DNA techniques
2017-09-13 11:38:13Lawyers are challenging convictions in which DNA analysis played a part,News in brief: lawyerbot offers Equifax help; Facebook faces privacy fine; gang hacks India ID scheme
2017-09-12 15:47:58Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsNew iOS11 features create fresh headaches for law enforcement
2017-09-12 14:56:48The latest version of the iPhone and iPad platform requires a six-digit passcode before it will sync with a new laptop - and revealing a passcode does have Fifth Amendment protectionBeware the Kedi RAT pretending to be a Citrix file that Gmails home
2017-09-12 13:41:55The Kedi Remote Access Trojan has some sneaky tricks up its sleeve - don't get caught out by itWhy are redditors ripping images from Instagram? Because they can
2017-09-12 12:48:24If you'd rather a bunch of random people on the internet didn't 'archive' your photos,Researcher reveals D-Link router holes that might never be patched
2017-09-12 10:31:16If you've got a D-Link DIR-850L AC1200 router,News in brief: Virginia ditches voting machines; Chrome to warn of MiTM hacks; Beijing cracks down on Bitcoin
2017-09-11 18:32:43Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsConcerns raised over claim that neural networks can detect sexuality
2017-09-11 17:19:09Researchers - whose previous work has sparked concern - scraped photos without seeking consent from dating sitesWhen is a bug not a bug? When Microsoft say’s ‘it’s a feature’
2017-09-11 15:25:07A researcher who notified Microsoft that he'd found a vulnerability has been told by 'a middleman' that its severity is lowWhat your phone can tell city transport planners
2017-09-11 14:29:53London is just the latest city to use data gathered from mobile phones to try and understand how people use vital infrastructureWhat can you do if you’re stuck in Robocall Hell? Nothing
2017-09-11 12:08:38A real estate agent in South Carolina found herself in Robocall Hell,Monday review – the hot 25 stories of the week
2017-09-11 08:50:24From the Equifax breach and how the company plans to defend your credit file to Apache Struts “serialisation” vulnerability,Equifax: woeful PINs put frozen credit files at risk
2017-09-10 13:27:33Why the PINs protecting your frozen credit files aren't worthy of the nameNews in brief: Uber faces FBI probe; Samsung offers bug bounties; ‘Humpty Dumpty’ hackers jailed
2017-09-08 17:50:15Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsEquifax: highlighting the problems with social security numbers
2017-09-08 17:29:57With the SSNs of potentially half the US population exposed in the Equifax breach,Learning from the Equifax breach [VIDEO]
2017-09-08 16:42:25Equifax - what we know, what we can do now,Orfox app brings Tor’s security slider to Android
2017-09-08 16:30:24Adding a slider means users can dial up the privacy settings without having to dig into the settings,Your voice assistant can hear things you can’t – such as a hacker
2017-09-08 14:33:18What researchers have dubbed the Dolphin Attack is theoretical - for now - but it affects all voice assistantsEquifax data breach: what you need to know
2017-09-07 23:51:05With up to 143m Americans' data potentially at risk, there are a lot of questions being asked.News in brief: hacker fail; voting fail; Twitter fail
2017-09-07 17:59:56Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsHeading off to university? Watch out for phishing scams
2017-09-07 16:50:48This is the time of year that students start receiving important emails from colleges and lenders - something the scammers try to exploit.Unsecured databases are (still) the low-hanging fruit of the internet
2017-09-07 16:25:27We've written about way too many of these incidents - make sure your database isn't spilling data tooThought you’d blocked a Twitter user? Here’s how they can still dogpile you
2017-09-07 13:34:17A bug means someone you'd rather avoid on Twitter can still view and retweet your posts,What’s under the hood of the new Brave browser?
2017-09-07 11:56:19There's a new kid on the browser block based on Ethereum - but what's its business model and what's in it for users?News in brief: Warning over Bitcoin scam app; Samsung facial recognition bypassed; Apple squares up to India
2017-09-06 17:56:07Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsLenovo settles lawsuits with 32 states over Superfish
2017-09-06 16:28:23Lenovo agrees to pay $3.5m for breaking users' security by installing SuperfishApache Struts “serialisation” vulnerability – what you need to know
2017-09-06 14:51:32A bug in Apache Struts, a popular software toolkit for building web services,Fur flies over Android bootloader flaws: here’s what you need to know
2017-09-06 13:43:31Researchers' BootStomp utility turned up vulnerabilities in five bootloaders from four vendorsWhy some gift cards are still a gift to hackers
2017-09-06 11:19:22Even when warned about how easy their cards were to beat,News in brief: veterans among S3 leak victims; court rules on email privacy; man jailed for VPN sales
2017-09-05 18:25:20Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsLondon police’s use of facial recognition falls flat on its face
2017-09-05 17:19:38Rolled out for a second year at the Notting Hill Carnival, the technology 'couldn't tell the difference between a young woman and a balding man',Would-be cyberattackers caught by malware with a sting in the tail
2017-09-05 14:55:14It's hard to feel sorry for people who get stung by the very malware they've bought to sting othersYahoo! braces itself for enormous class-action suit over breaches
2017-09-05 13:36:56A court ruling means that Yahoo! and its parent company, Verizon,News in brief: Pratchett’s data steamrollered; WikiLeaks hit by hackers; Instagram details for sale
2017-09-04 18:08:56Your daily round-up of some the other stories in the newsLawyer suggests tying access to encryption to verified ID
2017-09-04 17:02:48The lawyer leading a government review into terrorism law has suggested that we be forced to prove who we are before we're allowed access to encrypted accounts - but it's an idea that's fraught with problemsSecurity-focused phone launches crowdfunding drive
2017-09-04 14:40:48Would you pay $599 for a phone with an open-source OS that puts you in control of its security?Tempted to join the games in the crytpcurrency playground?
2017-09-04 12:40:34It's swings and roundabouts when it comes to cryptocurrencies: they have much to offer for those seeking privacy, but there are risks to bear in mind,Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week
2017-09-04 08:30:36From the latest cache of pwned email addresses and the ex-cop still in jail for not decrypting hard drive to keeping your boarding pass secure, and more!Call for Papers: AVAR 2017 Conference
2017-09-02 19:48:01The Anti-Virus Asia Researchers 20th annual conference will be held in Beijing on 6th to 8th December. The conference theme is "Back to Basics: Fighting the Evolving Cyber Criminal",News in brief: Call to link encryption to ID; Facebook maps everyone; Mirai ‘blackmailer’ extradited
2017-09-01 17:53:03Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsOnline file conversion services – why trust them?
2017-09-01 17:24:58If you need to edit an image, tweak a document or convert a file in a hurry,Open source or proprietary: how should we secure voting systems?
2017-09-01 16:10:13While Russian hackers were 'probably unsuccessful' at hacking the votes in last year's presidential election,Ex-cop who won’t decrypt hard drives still in jail indefinitely
2017-09-01 15:05:28It's not about the Fifth; it's about a search warrant in a child abuse case,Twitter struggles to deal with the sock-puppet and bot armies
2017-09-01 12:49:29The latest twist sees the bot armies busily retweeting legitimate accounts in an attempt to get them banned for abuse - and it's working. So why can't Twitter do better?Instagram blames API ‘bug’ for spilling of nude Bieber photos
2017-09-01 10:58:33Even if you're not quite as famous as Justin Bieber, having your social media accounts compromised is horrible.Pacemaker gets firmware update – go and see your doctor
2017-08-31 15:26:39There's finally a firmware update for the 465,000 affected pacemakers to fix the potentially life-threatening flawsBeware scammers phishing for disaster charity – or anything else
2017-08-31 14:51:09When disaster strikes,Machine learning for malware: what could possibly go wrong?
2017-08-31 13:02:20Relying on labels can make or break machine learning-based malware analysis - here's how to mitigate thatIs your email in the latest cache of 711 million pwnd addresses?
2017-08-31 12:29:06The huge cache of addresses was discovered on a server based in the Netherlands - and the researchers are trying to get it taken downPeople-rating app Sarahah slurps up contacts for feature that doesn’t exist
2017-08-31 10:39:11And why would an apparently anonymous app want to suck your contact details to show to other users anyway?News in brief: AI writes new GoT book; Google breaks out of the speaker; Cortana and Alexa hook up
2017-08-30 18:04:39Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsBitcoin users, the taxman wants to know what’s in your piggybank
2017-08-30 16:17:30The IRS is taking steps to de-anonymize Bitcoin investors - but how successful will those be?Trump’s cybersecurity advisers quit warning of ‘insufficient attention’
2017-08-30 14:01:22Departing members leave Trump with a list of recommendations that look a lot like ...WireX botnet offers glimpse of Android DDoS threat
2017-08-30 10:29:49A group of companies has worked together to target a botnet built via Android malwareNews in brief: Turing’s documents found; Uber steps back on tracking; feathered threat to police
2017-08-29 18:06:54Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsAre you an adrenaline junkie who takes risks with security?
2017-08-29 16:46:05How much of a link is there between risky online behavior and taking care with your security?DMARC should be catnip for email security – why aren’t firms using it?
2017-08-29 15:49:50DMARC isn't widely adopted despite the protections it offers for email - so what are the problems with it?Facial recognition: how many rogue drivers has it stopped in New York?
2017-08-29 14:38:30The city says it's arrested more than 4,000 people thanks to facial recognition - but the technology and its implementation remain problematicDon’t expose yourself with your boarding pass
2017-08-29 10:44:36Getting on a plane?Tuesday review – the hot 26 stories of the week
2017-08-29 09:59:09Get yourself up to date with everything we've covered in the past week - it's round-up timeNews in brief: ‘GoldSun’ arrested at LAX; update bricks smart TVs; Facebook ‘shuts 1m accounts a day’
2017-08-25 17:55:19Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsJudge scales back data demand on inauguration riot-related web host
2017-08-25 17:50:41DreamHost says the narrowing of scope is a 'huge win' for online privacyHackable flaw in connected cars is ‘unpatchable’, warn researchers
2017-08-25 15:03:33Potentially fatal flaw could take a generation of cars to eliminate - but is this a 'tempest in a thimble'?Identity theft at ‘epidemic’ levels, warn experts
2017-08-25 14:24:20It's a crime that's booming - so how can you protect yourself?‘Clever’ TapDance approach to web censorship that works at ISP level
2017-08-25 13:58:46The TapDance approach is just a proof of concept at the moment,Touchscreens ‘at risk from chip in the middle attack’, warn researchers
2017-08-25 12:42:03Researchers call for manufacturers to recognize that compromised hardware is a real possibilityCelebgate 3.0: Miley Cyrus among victims of photo thieves
2017-08-25 10:53:32More celebrities have had their private pictures stolen, including Tiger Woods and Kristen Stewart. How can celebs and non-celebs protect themselves?Verizon: US government requests for phone records on the up
2017-08-24 13:56:57Cellphone provider warns that it's increasingly being asked to provide huge and broad data dumps - such as records of every phone that passed by a given towerMalware rains on Google’s Android Oreo parade
2017-08-24 13:24:47It may be summer here in the northern hemisphere,Energy firm slapped with a fine after making 1.5m nuisance calls
2017-08-24 12:44:45Think you've opted out of robocalls from marketers?Are you a student? Your personal data is there for the asking
2017-08-24 11:33:52Your college can - and will - hand over your personal details to anyone who asks,News in brief: Google pulls 500 apps from Play; lottery boss sentenced; drone owners told to update
2017-08-23 17:59:13Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the newsThe .fish website that caught visitors in a phishing net
2017-08-23 16:46:33You codn't (sorry) make it up - but how did this website find itself baiting (sorry again) potential phishing victims?Storm breaks over AccuWeather phoning home without consent
2017-08-23 15:07:07Data-sucking service partner says it's been misunderstood - but you might still want to double-check your settings