September 9, 2011 - Sick-minded hackers have broken into the Twitter account of NBC News and posted messages claiming that there has been a terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York. The bogus messages claimed that Flight 4782 has been hijacked and another plane (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - Slightly less than two weeks after the first public signs of DigiNotar being compromised, Apple has revoked their certificates. The Apple update is available (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - A video of baby kicking inside his mother's pregnant belly is the latest lure being used by Facebook scammers - and judging by the number of readers from Naked Security who have reported it to us, it's spreading like wildfire. (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - If you saw a toy quadricopter flying outside your office would you be alarmed? Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, believe they have dreamt up a way for (continue reading...) Read more
September 9, 2011 - Google is advising *all* its users in Iran to change their Gmail passwords, and check that their Google accounts have not been compromised. In a blog post, (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - Over 20,000 records of patients who visited the emergency room at Stanford (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - A pair of security researchers have created their own version of the notorious Firesheep plugin to expose a data leak in the world's favourite search engine. The proof-of-concept (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - Facebook scams are getting sneakier and sneakier - with the latest attack using the lure of a free T-shirt celebrating Facebook's birthday in an attempt to steal the secret backdoor key to your account. The offer seems attractive enough - a (continue reading...) Read more
September 8, 2011 - Be on your guard! Emails claiming to be from a hotel about a wrong transaction on your credit card are being spammed worldwide - with the intention of infecting your computer with a malware. Here's a typical example. In this (continue reading...) Read more
September 7, 2011 - As if we weren't already a drifting, confused mob of smartphone-jabbing zombies already, Google has presented a new way to baffle business customers. As the New York Times (continue reading...) Read more
September 7, 2011 - Four men appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court today in connection with various Anonymous and LulzSec internet attacks, and were granted bail on the condition that they did not use specific online nicknames (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Earlier today a person calling himself ComodoHacker made a submission to text posting site Pastebin.com. Similar to a previous post by ComodoHacker (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - A few weeks ago at the USENIX Security Symposium, researchers Juan Caballero, Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich and Vern Paxson presented their paper (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Firefox 6.0.2 has just come out, adding more protection to that provided by Firefox 6.0.1, which was necessitated by the mess caused by disgraced Dutch web security company (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Microsoft has just released an update to security advisory 2607712 permanently moving all five of DigiNotar's root certificates to the (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - Pop singer Pink has posted an angry message to hackers, who she claims stole photographs from her Facebook page. But was Pink's Facebook page really hacked, or was she just one of the many people (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - As many North Americans return to their offices after a long Labor Day weekend, they may find something unpleasant in their email inboxes. A malware campaign has been widely distributed over the last (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - We continue to see Twitter users being targeted by criminal campaigns designed to phish passwords for the site. The problem is that often they are disguised as direct messages (DMs in Twitter parlance) (continue reading...) Read more
September 6, 2011 - There's a joke chain letter spreading between Facebook users right now. Here's what it says: NEW PRIVACY ISSUE WITH FACEBOOK. As of tomorrow, Facebook will creep into your bathroom when you're in the (continue reading...) Read more
September 5, 2011 - Fox-IT, the security auditors hired to investigate the (continue reading...) Read more