December 17, 2011 - Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 credit cards on suspicion that they had been compromised, and a security blogger warns of loopholes in the security of "Verified by Visa" (continue reading...) Read more
December 16, 2011 - The BBC claims that computer hackers were hired by private investigators to spy on politicians and the military. And who benefited from the hacking? The British press. Read more
December 15, 2011 - It turns out that the Google sponsored study that painted Firefox in a poor light might have been influenced by the sponsor. Read more
December 15, 2011 - Microsoft is beginning to automatically upgrade users to Internet Explorer 9 as part of their effort to eradicate versions of their old and vulnerable browsers. Read more
December 15, 2011 - In a bizarre move by Facebook, a blog which has highlighted security and privacy issues on the social network has found itself banned, preventing the spread of news, opinion and advice. Read more
December 15, 2011 - Facebook fans of American talk show host Ellen DeGeneres have been targeted by a scammer posing as her manager, offering the chance to appear on the top-rated TV show. Read more
December 15, 2011 - Today is the day that the US's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill is scheduled to be voted on. And unsurprisingly, the who's who of Silicon Valley are not happy. Several web gurus have banded together to voice their dislike (continue reading...) Read more
December 15, 2011 - Graham Cluley announces he is leaving Sophos to become a full-time nanny to a rich family in London. At least, that's his plan after he received a job offer via email. Do you think things will work out for him? (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2011 - GlobalSign released their report on security incident the certificate authority suffered earlier this year. They're clean, but that doesn't take the spotlight off of the need for a fix to the SSL certificate trust system that is in place. (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2011 - Whether you approach the holiday travel season with dread or excitement chances are you will be carrying one or more mobile devices and looking for those last minute travel bargains. Naked Security's Lisa Vaas provides her advice on what to (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2011 - Security expert Paul Ducklin has taken an indepth look at the scale and the risk of the typosquatting industry: registering misspellings of popular website domain names in an attempt to profit from typing mistakes. (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2011 - A British student has pleaded guilty to charges that he breached security at Facebook earlier his year, despite arguing that his intentions were not malicious. Read more
December 14, 2011 - When the website of rock star Gene Simmons fell victim to a denial-of-service attack, the legendary KISS front man vowed revenge. Now the FBI has arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with the attack. (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - A phishing campaign targeting users of Telstra Bigpond, Australia's largest ISP, is urging users to confirm their billing information or risk suspension. All pretty run-of-the-mill, but neatly timed given that Telstra suffered a data breach of customer information last Friday. (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - A researcher has discovered a flaw in Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" that can crash the message center by simply receiving a malformed SMS, Tweet or Facebook message. Read more
December 13, 2011 - A hospital near Atlanta, Georgia last week had to stop accepting all non-trauma patients after a malware infection shutdown their network. Is their IT poorly managed, or does this represent more serious problems in the medical space? (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - As always on the second Tuesday of the month Microsoft and Adobe release their monthly security bulletins. This month Microsoft has released 13 bulletins, although they had originally announced there would be 14 this month. In the final stages of (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Should there be a minimum age before you can use social networks or have a web email account? Under Google and Facebook's terms of services, you have to be at least 13 years old. However, plenty of even younger girls (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - It would cost Costco $80 billion to give everyone on Facebook a $100 gift card. Do you still think the link can be trusted, or have you twigged that it's just another Facebook survey scam? (continue reading...) Read more
December 13, 2011 - Free Windows phones are being offered by Microsoft to users who describe their Android malware problems. Read more