February 9, 2012 - A researcher at zvelo has discovered that he can recover the PIN used to make payments with Google Wallet in just seconds on a rooted Android device. Read more
February 9, 2012 - 31-year-old student from Warrington admits to trying to improve his grades at Temple University Ambler Campus, near Philadelphia, by hacking into the university’s computerised grading system. Read more
February 9, 2012 - Take a dive into some recent blackhat SEO attacks in this post to explore the facts behind the recent rise in reports of this threat. Site administrators in particular may be interested in some of the findings. (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2012 - It's ten years since British hacker Gary McKinnon was arrested, and now another hacker has been indicted for allegedly hacking into NASA computers. Read more
February 9, 2012 - Have you received an email claiming to come from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) today? If you did, be careful. Read more
February 9, 2012 - Can hackers really cause as much bloodshed as 353 Imperial Japanese Navy fighters, bombers and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers? Can hackers really kill 2,402 U.S. citizens, leave 1,282 wounded, lose 65 of their own attackers in the process, (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2012 - Symantec has confirmed that source code of an old version of pcAnywhere has been published on the net by hackers, as claims are made that the data thieves tried to extort $50,000 from the security firm. (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2012 - Over two years after the issue was first raised, Facebook has admitted that it's still working on deleting photos from legacy servers in a timely manner. Which might mean that photos that you wanted to permanently erase can still be found (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2012 - iPhone app developers Path and Hipster are in hot water after it was discovered they are sending your address book to their servers without permission. Read more
February 7, 2012 - Join two of Asia Pacific's top security experts, Rob Forsyth and Paul Ducklin, as they discuss and dissect the latest Security Threat Report from SophosLabs in an Asia Pacific webcast. The event takes place at 2pm Sydney time (UTC+11) on Thursday (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2012 - While the media just looove zero-day exploits, the security industry sees a lot more exploits designed to take advantage of patched vulnerabilities. Question is why don't many of us get around to installing the patches? (continue reading...) Read more
February 7, 2012 - The editor of The Times has apologised, after he admitted a journalist had hacked into a serving police officer's email account. Read more
February 7, 2012 - At a press conference promoting the new Muppets movie, Kermit the frog declined to comment on the high profile allegations of the media breaking into the mobile phone voicemail systems. Read more
February 7, 2012 - Be on the lookout for emails claiming to come from a daytime TV show, after it was discovered that scammers are using the disguise to grab personal information. Read more
February 6, 2012 - A large volume of spam messages pretending to be from Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks, are flooding inboxes. Don't click the links, they lead to pages infected by the infamous Blackhole exploit kit. (continue reading...) Read more
February 6, 2012 - The United States is preparing a modified version of Google's Android operating system to allow soldiers to use smartphones. Read more
February 6, 2012 - Widespread protests about ACTA have occurred in Europe. Why is there such anger, and what can be done about it? Read more
February 5, 2012 - This week, Paul Ducklin joins Chet to talk about the Sophos Security Threat Report 2012, the new anti-phishing proposal known as DMARC and mobile phone numbers being leaked through HTTP headers at O2. (continue reading...) Read more
February 4, 2012 - The FBI may shutdown the DNS servers victims of the DNS Changer malware have been using on March 8th. Is this a dangerous action, or is five months to clean up your PC enough? (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2012 - Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial. Read more