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Google in hot water over privacy of Android apps for kids
2018-04-19 13:52:28Large numbers of child-centred Android apps may be breaking US law.NSA reveals how it beats 0-days
2018-04-19 13:50:42Exploits and vulnerabilities are weaponized against us 24 hours after release, says technical director.Employee from hell busted by VPN logs
2018-04-19 12:48:17Before retiring from PenAir airline, Suzette Kugler set herself up with fake, high-privilege VPN user accounts that didn't keep her secrets.Silence! Chrome hushes noisy autoplaying videos
2018-04-19 11:15:07With the Chrome 66 comes blissful quiet: Google is muting all autoplay content by default.Hacking like it’s 1999 (oh, and what to do about Facebook) [PODCAST]
2018-04-18 15:35:55Here's the latest Naked Security Podcast - enjoy!Why ‘remote detonator’ is a bad name for your Wi-Fi network
2018-04-18 12:54:30Police called, building evacuated...Russia’s Grizzly Steppe gunning for vulnerable routers
2018-04-18 12:42:06Russian Government hackers stand accused of targeting millions of routersFacebook: 3 reasons we’re tracking non-users
2018-04-18 11:31:59It's just how the internet works, Facebook said.Traditional firewalls fall short in protecting organizations, says survey
2018-04-17 13:12:23A new survey, sponsored by Sophos, asked IT managers how their firewall technology is working for them. The results are in.5 simple tips for better computer security
2018-04-17 12:14:00Small steps really can make a big impact.WhatsApp image showing drug dealer’s fingerprints leads to arrest
2018-04-17 12:11:00Enhanced social media images of the man's fingers led to the takedown of 11 members of a drug ring and his sentencing.Gmail’s new ‘Confidential Mode’ won’t be completely private
2018-04-17 11:36:50Have you ever wished it were possible to delete an email from a recipient’s inbox days, weeks or months after it was sent? If so and you're a Gmail or G Suite user,“Privacy is not for sale,” says Telegram founder
2018-04-17 11:02:28Telegram founder Pavel Durov has spoken out after Russia started blocking Telegram encrypted messaging.Could an Intel chip flaw put your whole computer at risk?
2018-04-17 10:26:27All it would take is a low-level programming bug in your computer's CPU.How to protect your Facebook data [UPDATED]
2018-04-16 13:23:43Facebook's in hyper privacy-tweaking mode. Herein, how to protect your privacy now that it's fiddled with the dials.Tracking protection in Firefox for iOS now on by default – why this matters
2018-04-16 10:10:12Turning it on by default might sound like a mere tweak,Facial recognition cameras on lamp posts to be tested in Singapore
2018-04-16 09:53:24The Singapore government wants to put one on top of all 110,000 lamp posts throughout the country, to help identity all who pass by.Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
2018-04-16 08:57:05From checking if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica and the 65 vulnerabilities fixed in April's Patch Tuesday to Facebook's 'shadow profiles',The ransomware that says, “I don’t want money” – play a violent game instead!
2018-04-13 15:11:00Ransomware that lets you play to pay...Thank you for your Birthday Wishes... Do You Want to Access my Bank Account?
2018-04-13 14:20:06As I grow another year older, I'm grateful for my friends and family posting birthday greetings on social media. It's nice to hear from people who care about me.Instagram bends to GDPR – a “download everything” tool is coming
2018-04-13 12:48:06The tool will let you get at your photos, videos and messagesInterview: Sarah Jamie Lewis, Executive Director of the Open Privacy Research Society
2018-04-13 12:41:49An interview with Sarah Jamie Lewis, Executive Director of the Open Privacy Research Society, a new privacy advocacy and research non-profit based in Vancouver,Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration
2018-04-13 12:05:02How Russian trolls embraced rule 34 (but Redditors didn't buy it)Facebook shines a little light on ‘shadow profiles’
2018-04-13 11:26:28Shadow... what now?Update now! Microsoft’s April 2018 Patch Tuesday – 65 vulns, 24 critical
2018-04-12 11:52:21Here's what you need to know about the April 2018 Patch Tuesday updates...Congress chews up Zuckerberg, day two: A far more thorough mastication
2018-04-12 11:23:50"What's the difference between Facebook and J. Edgar Hoover?"Death SWAT suspect tweets threats from jail using buggy inmate kiosk
2018-04-12 10:57:16He apparently got online when a jail kiosk software upgrade glitched. Alternatively, as his account explained it, because "I'm an eGod."3 critical Flash vulnerabilities patched. Update now!
2018-04-11 17:10:04Cybercriminals love that you run Flash. Don't.Back to the future! 1990s Windows File Manager! NOW OPEN SOURCE!
2018-04-11 11:11:08You can now build the 1990s Microsoft Windows "File Manager" app for Windows 10. But why? BECAUSE YOU CAN!Steve Wozniak explains why he deactivated his Facebook account
2018-04-11 10:42:03As his 5,000 Facebook friends are about to find out, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has well and truly left the building.Congress grills Zuckerberg, day one: How does this online stuff work?
2018-04-11 10:30:51On Tuesday, senators began their questioning of the virgin-to-Congressional-grilling, Mark Zuckerberg.How ODNS keeps your browsing habits secret
2018-04-10 16:24:01"Oblivious DNS" keeps your DNS traffic private without retooling the internetHow to check if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica
2018-04-10 12:58:24Here's how to find out whether you or your friends shared personal data with controversial data-harvesting company Cambridge AnalyticaYouTube illegally collects data from kids, group claims
2018-04-10 12:33:06A coalition has filed a complaint with the FTC, charging that Google's YouTube is breaking COPPA: the law to protect children's privacy.Another company’s been harvesting Facebook user data
2018-04-10 12:22:01Like Cambridge Analytica, Cubeyou also gobbled users' data with personality quizzes, under the guise of "research."Jail for white collar pirates who stole from Oracle
2018-04-10 10:31:51The unequal struggle between software giant Oracle and services company Terix has finally concluded with the latter’s CEO and co-founder Bernd Appleby being handed two years in jail.5 Facebook facepalms (just last week)
2018-04-09 11:52:53Facebook has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons, and it's only getting worse.Hacker mines up to $1 million in Verge after exploiting major bug
2018-04-09 11:42:22According to a forum post,Thousands of Google employees call for company to cancel Pentagon work
2018-04-09 11:38:32Google's helping the Pentagon to build AI for drones, and a vocal group of employees have asked the company to drop the project.Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week
2018-04-09 09:22:25From Washington's fake cell towers and the Youtuber sued by In-N-Out Burger to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 promises to make DNS more secure and more!Crooks are swapping out chips on payment cards, says US Secret Service
2018-04-08 21:27:24The crooks don't steal your whole card, which you'd probably notice, but just the chip from it...Facebook’s new fake news strategy is… decide for yourself!
2018-04-06 12:51:02Facebook is getting rid of fact-checkers and leaving it up to readers to decide what's realIntel won’t fix Spectre flaws in older chips
2018-04-06 12:06:34If your PC runs one of Intel’s older microprocessors, bad newsWashington DC “awash” with fake cell towers
2018-04-06 11:42:51DHS has detected IMSI catchers that track phones and intercept callsWhatsApp phishing – how it works, and what to do [VIDEO]
2018-04-05 23:10:40When you think of phishing, you probably think of email - but the crooks know how to abuse closed messaging systems like WhatsApp, too.Sears Holdings, Delta and others leak credit cards in “multibreach”
2018-04-05 22:12:13If a third party leaks credit card numbers they were holding on your behalf... it's still your neck on the block.Hooray! Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email
2018-04-05 16:10:14The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users' data.Facebook and Twitter may be forced to identify bots
2018-04-05 10:46:32If passed,Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 promises to make DNS more secure
2018-04-05 10:39:52On April Fools' Day Cloudflare launched a new public DNS (Domain Name System) service using the memorable network address 1.1.1.1.YouTube employee’s Twitter account hijacked during shooting
2018-04-05 10:23:17In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim Lavrusik's account was hijacked.Free Virgin Atlantic tickets? No, it’s a WhatsApp scam
2018-04-04 12:51:20Two free tickets for every family? It sounds great! It has to be a scam.Get into RSA for free, hear Sophos experts talk, play our VR game
2018-04-04 12:51:05Want a free pass to RSA conference in San Francisco? Look no further!Hand over your social media history before you enter the US
2018-04-04 12:27:25The US Government will request 5 years' worth of social media details for 14 million visa applicants, if this proposal goes into effect.Grindr was sharing HIV status of users, but now it’s not
2018-04-04 12:10:38Grindr has found itself with the uncomfortable job of explaining why it has quietly been sharing the HIV status of its users with third parties.Those Facebook videos you thought were deleted were not deleted
2018-04-04 10:32:56Facebook's blamed a bug. Let's wait and see what other critters crawl out of those data archives many of us have been downloading!Panera Bread customer records exposed via leaky database – dough!
2018-04-03 16:35:10There's a war of words going on at the moment between veteran cybercrime reporter Brian Krebs and US bakery chain Panera Bread.5 million credit cards exposed in Saks and Lord & Taylor data breach
2018-04-03 14:23:12A Dark Web monitoring company announced the breach via Twitter on April Fool's Day, but it wasn't a joke.YouTube prankster sued by In-N-Out Burger
2018-04-03 11:00:35#Funny? #JustAPrank? Nah. How about instead #Lawsuit, #RestrainingOrder, #$25KInDamages?Tuesday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
2018-04-03 09:27:25From the Apple password leak and the MyFitnessPal breach to police using a dead man's fingers to unlock his iPhone, and more!150 million MyFitnessPal accounts compromised – here’s what to do
2018-03-30 12:15:58Under Armour's hugely popular fitness tracker, MyFitnessPal, has been hacked.Boeing hit by WannaCry, reminding everyone the threat is still there
2018-03-29 16:49:39Is this the return of WannaCry? Or did it simply never go away?Facebook revamps security, privacy settings following huge data scandal
2018-03-29 16:31:04Facebook says it's going to reach into the 20 or so dusty corners where it's tucked away privacy and security settings and pull them into a centralized spot for users.Football team pays $2.5 million to criminals in transfer fee scam
2018-03-29 13:58:32According to reports, Italian football club Lazio just paid a transfer fee of $2.5m to scammers instead of the proper recipients.Hackers hit 911 system, emergency dispatch affected
2018-03-29 12:18:28We don't know what the attackers were after, but they managed to knock down one server that supported Baltimore's emergency dispatching.Firefox add-on limits Facebook’s tracking of you
2018-03-29 12:09:36Firefox's Facebook Container extension keeps your Facebook data, well, contained.Microsoft’s Windows 7 Meltdown patch created ‘worse’ flaw
2018-03-29 11:52:44Microsoft’s updates for the Meltdown microprocessor mega-flaw inadvertently left users running Windows 7 64-bit systems open to a “way worse” flaw.Stop swearing on Skype! And don’t even think about sending that nude selfie…
2018-03-29 11:52:01Microsoft has banned nudity, swearing and other unsavoury behaviors in Skype, Xbox, email, and Office 365 docs.Jaywalkers to be named, shamed and fined thanks to facial recognition
2018-03-29 10:59:52Thanks, no thanks, facial recognition and artificial intelligence mashup.Unmasking Monero: stripping the currency’s privacy protection
2018-03-28 15:15:48The features that make blockchains trustworthy may leave them vulnerable to retrospective action.Yet another Apple password leak – how to avoid it
2018-03-28 12:58:06Passwords in plaintext - again! Here's Apple's latest macOS password bug - plus a handy workaround to deal with it.Push for legal mandate to unlock phones revived by DOJ
2018-03-28 12:33:27The Feds have been meeting with security researchers who are working on "a safe enough way" to unlock data on encrypted phones.Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked
2018-03-28 11:46:53The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.Cryptocurrency clampdown! Twitter bans ICO ads to combat scammers
2018-03-28 10:51:04Twitter is to ban advertisers from pushing Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) or selling tokens on its platform.FTC goes after Facebook
2018-03-28 10:31:49Time for Facebook to face the music on its data glad-handling in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.HOAX ALERT: Can you really verify your Facebook account security with a comment?
2018-03-27 12:50:23There's a rumor floating around in certain corners of the internet that you can "prove"Biggest pirate in the US sentenced to 5 years
2018-03-27 12:43:20Sharebeast, Newjams and Albumjams were sites to pirate prerelease songs from the likes of Justin Bieber, Pitbull and Beyonce.Cobalt/Carbanak bank malware gang’s alleged leader arrested
2018-03-27 12:38:48The hackers have made ATMs across Europe spit out cash upon command.3 of Facebook’s dumbest hoaxes
2018-03-27 12:14:17Lowlights from the world's biggest petri dish for culturing hair-brained hoaxesOf course Facebook logs calls and texts – people gave it permission
2018-03-27 12:04:30Facebook's been upsetting quite a lot of people lately.Facebook death hoax: Captain Kirk says, “I’ve not boldly gone yet!”
2018-03-26 15:59:59Has Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise, also known as actor William Shatner, really been beamed up for the last time? (No.)Police use dead man’s fingers to try to unlock his iPhone
2018-03-26 12:02:30In the first known instance of this technique, police tried using a dead man's fingerprints to get past the protection of Apple's Touch ID.Shodan and passwords sitting in a tree, S-H-O-W-I-N-G!
2018-03-26 11:14:08If an application offers authentication security, it’s always a good idea to turn it on if that isn’t the default setting.Craigslist personals, some subreddits yanked after passage of FOSTA
2018-03-26 09:31:25Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill that guts Section 230, the law that protects sites from being held liable for user-posted content.Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
2018-03-26 09:30:30From the Facebook fallout and their loss of 50 million users' data to Siri leaking your private iPhone messages, and more!Crooks infiltrate Google Play with malware in QR reading utilities
2018-03-23 15:54:11They got Google's "Play Protect" approval for a number of apps that were fronts for a barrage of aggressive ads.The bug that made free money
2018-03-23 13:55:32What would you do if you found a bug that could create money out of thin air?AMD announces Ryzen patch timeline as disclosure controversy rages
2018-03-23 13:35:33Has an unknown Israeli company called CTS Labs tried to exploit worries over microprocessor flaws for financial gain?Beware the fake Facebook sirens that flirt you into sextortion
2018-03-23 12:49:37Fake hot-babe profiles are working together as "feeders," "bait" and "hunters" in order to lure men into sex chats that lead to extortion.New whistleblower says Facebook turned a blind eye to covert data harvesting
2018-03-22 17:18:52Sandy Parakilas, formerly responsible for policing data breaches, said ignorance was bliss and assumed to protect Facebook from liability.How Siri leaks your private iPhone messages, and how to stop her
2018-03-22 13:58:00A Brazilian Mac magazine found how to bypass your iPhone lockscreen via Siri - so here's how to stop her reading messages she shouldn't.Mozilla stops Facebook advertising, demands privacy changes
2018-03-22 13:53:02It’s probably not top of Mark Zuckerberg’s worry list this week but Mozilla, developer of browser Firefox,The password to your IoT device is just a Google search away
2018-03-22 12:00:59Researchers at Ben-Gurion University were often able to find default passwords in under 30 minutes with a simple Google search.880,000 payment cards affected in travel company data breach
2018-03-22 11:41:23Orbitz believes crooks may have gotten at customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, and more.Bitcoin’s blockchain tainted with links to child abuse imagery
2018-03-21 14:44:01Are there legal landmines engraved into the Bitcoin blockchain?Police ask Google for location data to narrow suspect lists
2018-03-21 13:50:28Police intend to use location data from Google to work out which devices were being used near the scene of crimes.Bomb hoax sent to 400 schools blamed on warring Minecraft gamers
2018-03-21 13:36:45The kids were just collateral damage: the real target was to discredit gaming server VeltPvP in an ongoing gamer spat.Will eID Suceed Where e-Cert Failed?
2018-03-21 13:33:43The Hong Kong Government released a Legislative Council Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting discussion paper on 12 March 2018 about its plans for introducing an eID for all residents as key infrastructure in its "Smart CitFacebook fallout: What are your options?
2018-03-20 21:24:53Is it time to end your Facebook life? At the very least, it's time to check Facebook privacy settings/audit apps/turn off API sharing.Nine years on, Firefox’s master password is still insecure
2018-03-20 14:56:16A researcher has uncovered a big security weakness in the way Firefox secures browser passwords behind a master password.Apple burns the HSTS super cookie
2018-03-20 14:20:41HSTS tracking has been reduced to crumbs.US spy lab wants to geolocate any video or photo taken outdoors
2018-03-20 12:59:03US intelligence is working on geotagging every possible outdoor location in the world.Fake Amazon ad ranks top on Google search results
2018-03-20 11:58:07A tech support scam disguised as an Amazon ad was showing up above even the legitimate Amazon.com search result.