June 9, 2011 - At least I don’t have to use the “S” word today! A New York Times story reports that Citigroup has disclosed that it had suffered a data breach that disclosed information about approximately 1% of its North American credit (continue reading...) Read more
May 25, 2011 - When asked what personal email you use, most will immediately reply with Gmail, Facebook Mail, or Yahoo Mail while a select few of us will admit to using Microsoft Hotmail. Why? Speculation would be that it is because Hotmail is (continue reading...) Read more
May 23, 2011 - It’s been a really rough time for Sony. I have a hunch that in the past month “Sony CTO” has leapt past toilet cleaner on the list of least desirable jobs. Last month there was the massive Sony PlayStation/Qriocity (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2011 - Don't just read the latest computer security news - watch it in 90 seconds! This month: Sony suffers a cloudburst, Facebook courts controversy (again), the FBI busts the Coreflood botnet and Armenia gets cut off from the internet. (continue reading...) Read more
May 1, 2011 - Dutch GPS and navigation software giant, Tom Tom, recently took what I consider to be a small privacy step for the company, but a giant privacy (continue reading...) Read more
April 17, 2011 - What is being called a vulnerability in the Android version of Skype could simply be written up as sloppy coding at best, or disrespect for your (continue reading...) Read more
April 15, 2011 - The US Department of Justice's announcement yesterday of the takedown of the command and control (C&C) servers for the Coreflood bots (detected by ESET as Win32/AFCore) and seizure of their domains marks another step in the growing (continue reading...) Read more
April 13, 2011 - As David Harley blogged earlier, the Comptroller of Public Accounts office for the state of Texas yesterday began notifying state employees that the names, addresses, social security numbers and other records of some 3.5 million current or former state (continue reading...) Read more
April 13, 2011 - Plenty more (potential) phish in the C:\: The consequences of the Epsilon breach may have been a little overstated, but the Texas data exposures are far from trivial. (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2011 - I'll see your Epsilon mail addresses and raise you 3 1/2 million Texans' personal records. While the Epsilon leak got an excessive amount of media attention, given its limited potential for phishing (let alone spear phishing), it seems bizarre that (continue reading...) Read more
March 31, 2011 - Recent research by SophosLabs has discovered an alarming vector by which personal and private data can be exfiltrated from modern-day portable computing devices such as smartphones and tablets, including the popular Apple iPad and iPad 2. This attack is surprisingly easy (continue reading...) Read more
February 18, 2011 - Last year, I wrote several Naked Security articles about computer security problems which can put travellers in harms' way. The topics I covered were: * The free WiFi service (continue reading...) Read more
February 15, 2011 - The incident involves a couple of public libraries in the Manchester area of the UK (Wilmslow and Handforth, to be precise), where keyloggers were found to have been attached to PCs used by members of the public. One of the (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2011 - While it would appear we are losing the battle for the protection of our sensitive data stored by third parties, that isn't necessarily the case. Many Naked Security (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2011 - After powering through the holiday season and keeping the Chet Chat on time, I have stumbled into 2011 and fallen a little behind in (continue reading...) Read more
January 8, 2011 - Australian media giant Fairfax went public over the weekend with dramatic claims that customer data from mobile phone company Vodafone Australia is routinely falling into the wrong hands, thanks to (continue reading...) Read more
December 30, 2010 - The last podcast of the year is here and my guest this week (on his vacation!) was Tony Ross, one of our Global Product Specialists. To wrap (continue reading...) Read more
December 8, 2010 - Physical security at airports is a curious affair. Writers like Bruce Schneier have been pointing this out for years. Schneier, indeed, is said to have been the first to use the term 'security theatre' to describe the often arbitrary, frequently (continue reading...) Read more
October 27, 2010 - The past several days have seen the security community abuzz about a program presented in San Diego at ToorCon 12 this last weekend called FireSheep. Written by Eric Butler, a web developer from Seattle, it has, or at least is (continue reading...) Read more
September 29, 2010 - During the last six years, botnets have become one of the biggest threats to security professionals, businesses, and consumers. We at McAfee Labs have just released more information about how cybercriminals can use common social networks and common web applications, (continue reading...) Read more