Even little routers can have giant holes, as Cisco warns in a just-published security advisory.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
BlackBerry takes a pop at privacy-focused Blackphone
There’s a public spat between BlackBerry and Blackphone, the spunky start-up company trying to break into the crowded mobile market with promises of air-tight security. Can BlackBerry survive the competition?
13-year-old girl arrested for Facebook death threats against entire town
Despite specific threats to kill a 12-year-old cancer patient along with the entire population of a Texas town, Facebook initially stonewalled police’s efforts to find the identity of whoever was making the terrorist threats. It baffled police, as well it should. 
Child abuse images dragnet snares 660 suspected paedophiles
Doctors, teachers, scout leaders, care workers and former police officers – all professions that entail unsupervised access to children – were among 660 who’ve been arrested in an unprecedented child abuse image dragnet in the UK. 
Oracle’s “Patch Tuesday” brings 113 patches across 13 product families
Oracle’s July 2014 security patches are out, and there’s a ton of them. Literally and figuratively…
Google+ drops real name policy. What do you think? [POLL]
Following years of criticism, Google announced on Tuesday that it is waving goodbye to the real names policy it employed to block the use of pseudonyms on its Google+ social network.
‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget
The newly launched site is archiving the pages Google was forced to de-index in the name of opening up to the internet as a whole the discussion regarding what should or should not be “forgotten.”
SSCC 156 – Warbiking in Manhattan, hubris for Google, and how less can be more [PODCAST]
Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin are back with this week’s security podcast, turning plain old news into advice you can use.
Germany considers replacing email with typewriters to evade spying
The country’s pondering manual typewriters, however, unlike Russia’s reported embrace of electric typewriters last year. Russia should be well aware that you can plug a keylogger into those e-typewriters, given that it pulled that stunt on IBM Selectrics back in the 70s!
CNET website and 1 million passwords compromised by Russian hacker group
CNET, the popular tech news and reviews website, was compromised over the weekend by Russian hackers called “W0rm,” CNET’s parent company confirmed yesterday.
