- Videoconferencing equipment is often left wide open for hackers to creep in and peep around organizations.
- In a bizarre marketing move, AnonyUpload explains why it's rubbish and that it's not a replacement for MegaUpload.
- Chet sits down with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director at the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to discuss Data Privacy Day. Michael explains the origin of Data Privacy Day, some of the activities related to it (continue reading...)
- On the heels of the Zappos cyber robbery last Sunday that left 24M customers fretting over stolen passwords and email addresses, articles are being (continue reading...)
- A popular smartphone app used by the gay community to hook-up with similarly-minded people in their vicinity suffers from a serious security vulnerability that could expose personal information and explicit photos that they have been (continue reading...)
- Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some (continue reading...)
- A new survey finds that 56% are likely to check out the social media profiles of potential employees.
If you want to avoid limiting your career progression, it might be time to clean-up your social networking (continue reading...)
- SophosLabs is warning users not to read too much into docs.google.com URLs.
Two scam campaigns this weekend used Google Docs to attack two very different targets. One had big-four Aussie bank ANZ in its sights; the (continue reading...)
- Are Ashton Kutcher and Lorene Scafaria an item?
A hacker would certainly like you to think so.
- If you spend a lot of time paying attention to IT (in)security it can drive you to rant on occasion. This is one of those occasions, as too many companies are putting their future and (continue reading...)
- Facebook seems to be digging themselves another privacy hole after just agreeing to a settlement to protect privacy with the FTC. Congressman Markey and Barton are accusing Facebook of dodging questions about how they track (continue reading...)
- Paul Ducklin joins Chet for the first Chet Chat of 2012. This week they discuss the privacy implications of smart meters, the recent research showing how WiFi routers are vulnerable due to an easy setup (continue reading...)
- Evidence is given to the Leveson Inquiry that a journalist working for The Times was disciplined after being found involved in computer hacking.
- A policeman in Germany decided to install spyware on his daughter's computer only to have a friend of hers hack his computer in retribution. The result? The compromise of the German federal surveillance system (continue reading...)
- Ramona Fricosu, accused of committing financial fraud, is currently in a court battle fighting to keep her encrypted data private. The prosecution say that if the government fail to demand data decryption, it will harm (continue reading...)
- If you don't like the idea of the US government reading the sensitive contents of your computer, you may wish to take steps before you travel there. (continue reading...)
- Researchers at the 28c3 conference presented a paper delving into the privacy implications of smart power meters. In addition to vulnerabilities in the way these meters communicate they were even able to identify specific movies (continue reading...)
- A new patent from Apple shows how a power cable could help users access their computing devices when they forget their passwords - and perhaps improve security. (continue reading...)
- The latest variants of the information stealing SpyEye Trojan are now specializing in hiding fraudulent transactions from your online banking statements. Should we rethink giving up on our paper statements? (continue reading...)
- MyPermissions makes it simple to manage what applications and websites can access your online accounts.
Maybe it's time to get into the habit of regularly checking what you've given permission to, and whether you still want (continue reading...)