November 8, 2011 - A security hole in iOS, the operating system that powers iPhones and iPads, has allowed hacker Charlie Miller to defeat Apple’s famously discerning App Store review process. Read more
November 8, 2011 - Anonymous launched DDoS attacks against El Salvador's government, forcing several websites to be temporarily taken offline. Read more
November 7, 2011 - The popular sportswear manufacturer Adidas has suffered a "sophisticated, criminal cyber attack" made against a number of its sites. Read more
November 7, 2011 - Take a closer look at one of the nasty JavaScript threats that we have seen injected into thousands of legitimate web sites recently, for the purpose of infecting users with malware. Read more
November 7, 2011 - Users can neither understand nor configure tools which claim to improve their privacy, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon. Is there any way we can achieve online privacy? Read more
November 6, 2011 - Kiwicon opened with a software engineering talk which was intensely focused - a case study of a single-line bug in a single source file in a single module in a 70MBbyte programming language distro. Paul Ducklin reports from Wellington, New Zealand. (continue reading...) Read more
November 5, 2011 - A wave of phishing emails targeting users of PayPal has been hitting mailboxes this weekend preying on your fear that someone has compromised your account. Read more
November 4, 2011 - First, happy birthday to us. Naked Security is one year old.To celebrate our birthday, we have convinced writer Graham Cluley to grow a wonderful bushy moooouuuuustash in aid of in aid of Movember.. (continue reading...) Read more
November 4, 2011 - Customers build a relationship based on trust with security vendors. After all, customers who buy security solutions like anti-virus or anti-spam grant security companies access to update computers and devices. Question is should security companies open their doors to people (continue reading...) Read more
November 4, 2011 - This year, more than 600 cybersecurity experts from Asia Pacific and beyond will attend Kiwicon V for a weekend of conferencing, conversation and conviviality. I'll be listening with great interest and reporting on topics which I think will interest you too. (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2011 - Microsoft have released a security advisory for the vulnerability used in the Duqu Trojan. They are providing a workaround, but it disables the use of embedded True Type Fonts. Read more
November 3, 2011 - Mozilla has revoked the signing privileges of another certificate authority for issuing weak and incomplete SSL/TLS certificates. Read more
November 3, 2011 - How annoying is it when someone, placed in a position of trust, rips people off? The snappily named Delaware County District Attorney's Criminal Investigation Unit has filed charges against Librado Wright, a financial specialist at Wachovia Bank, on multiple charges (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2011 - New Zealand's parliament passed a controversial law earlier this year: the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011. The local recording industry has just used it in anger for the first time - and you're guilty unless you can prove you're (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2011 - Following the murder of multiple bloggers and reports that the Mexican drug cartel has hired narcohackers to help track Anonymous members for violent retaliation, the hacktivists have put into play a process that will hopefully shield Anonymous identities. (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2011 - Are you worried that your online accounts might have been compromised? A new service called PwnedList claims to scoop up compromised email addresses and usernames and letting us the public go and check whether theirs is listed. (continue reading...) Read more
November 2, 2011 - Advice for Scarlett Johansson on how to ensure that her Yahoo mail and private photos can *never* be automatically forwarded. Read more
November 1, 2011 - London's Metropolitan Police Service has announced the conviction and sentencing of two Ukrainian cybercrooks. The pair raided innocent victims' bank accounts of at least $4.5 million in just six months. Read more
November 1, 2011 - A large increase in bank phishing emails was spotted today in SophosLabs. Users are being tricked into opening HTML attachments to provide criminals with credit cards and personal information. Read more
November 1, 2011 - Another component of the Duqu malware was acquired by CrySyS and shared with security researchers. This newest component exploits a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows kernel. Read more