How long has mobile malware been around? Is it really game over for Gameover and CryptoLocker? Which cryptographic security libraries need patching? It’ll only take a minute to find out…
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Snowden, one year on, and it’s still not 1984
It’s a year since Snowden lifted the lid on PRISM and everything that followed. We’ve spent a year looking for Big Brother while we uploaded more of our lives into the care of giant media corporations and pointed an ever increasing battery of cameras at each other.
What we learned from Edward Snowden
Tapping the conversations of world leaders, facial recognition, PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore… Whether you think Snowden’s a hero or a traitor, there’s no denying that revelations about widespread spying by the NSA keep pouring out. One year on from the first leak, we thought we’d take a look back at what we’ve learned.
UK hackers could “face the justice they deserve” with up to life in jail
A proposed amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 will carry a sentence of up to lifetime imprisonment. The current Act only allows for a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars, which ministers feel does not adequately reflect the potential damage posed to people and the UK economy.
Phish or legit – Can you tell the difference?
If a legitimate email looks like a phishing email, then how are you supposed to spot what is genuine and what isn’t? John Shier takes a look.
Medical centre staff post woman’s STD diagnosis on Facebook
A woman whose medical record was posted to a Facebook group named “Team No Hoes” is suing the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, two employees and a former boyfriend who allegedly talked the healthcare workers into posting the screenshot. 
Latest OpenSSL flaws can lead to information leakage, code execution and DoS
Only two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL captured global headlines we have another critical update for OpenSSL fixing 6 new flaws.
CryptoLocker wannabe “Simplelocker” scrambles your files, holds your Android to ransom
“If the crooks keep copying Windows threats that were financially lucrative,” you’re thinking, “we’ll soon see Android ransomware that doesn’t just lock your device, but locks up your data instead, or as well.” Guess what?
Facebook troll jailed for posting he was ‘glad’ teacher was murdered
A Facebook troll has been jailed after posting he was “glad” a much-loved UK teacher, Ann Maguire, got “stabbed up”.
Google says half of email is sent unencrypted
It’s been an encryption-intensive start to the week – good news for all of us who are wary of snooping. 