Fortunately, not every cybercrook in the world is a good coder. Let’s hope it stays that way…
Monthly Archives: June 2014
User-shaming robot Pic Nix banned by Instagram
The plus: it used a nifty, Arduino-powered xy plotter that mimicked a human hand keying in an Instagram post on an actual iPhone. The minus: the “Rube Goldberg for the passive aggressive” allowed users to diss each other’s posts without having the ‘nads to do it to people’s faces’. 
“Kind of creepy” personality test crunches your Facebook verbiage
The tool analyses language for signs of extroversion (“party!!”) introversion (“computer”) and more. This could be a dream come true for targeted marketing and a hell on earth for privacy. 
Domino’s Pizza hacked, customer database held to ransom
Hacker group, Rex Mundi, who claim to have cracked a Domino’s Pizza database say they have stolen the details of more than 650,000 dough-loving customers. It says the data will be released later today if the pizza chain fails to pay a ransom of €30,000.
People demand better privacy but don’t take basic steps to protect themselves
The vast majority of internet users expect their privacy to be eroded over the next five years, according to a recent study.
Google’s after your health data with ‘Google Fit’ service
Google’s reportedly about to jump into the growing fitness data marketplace – a mosh pit that consumer advocates are already calling a privacy nightmare – to wrestle with Apple and Samsung for the data getting created by fitness trackers and health-related apps.
How to ‘double your money on PayPal!’ and why you should NOT try it
There’s a loophole in PayPal’s terms of service that can profit those silly enough to commit fraud and think that the police won’t come knocking. 
Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
SCAMwatch – 5 tips to keep your friends and family out of scammers’ clutches
It’s National Consumer Fraud Week in Australia, so the government’s SCAMwatch team has published 5 straight-talking anti-scammer tips. With Aussies alone taken for more than $90M last year, this is a battle we need to keep on fighting all around the globe…
59 vulns in IE, teenager versus Turing, and Twitter gets wormed – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Is 59 vulns in IE some kind of record? Did a computer really pass the Turing Test? Can a network worm ever be a joke? Find out in one minute!