Is the recent re-appearance of the Gameover malware a flash in the pan, or part of a concerted effort at reviving the threat? What do we need to do to knock it out altogether?
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Arrests made after keyloggers found on public PCs at US hotels
Proof of the lack of hygiene in publicly accessible PCs came up yet again when the US Secret Service last week warned that cybercrooks are installing keyloggers on the PCs in hotel business centers to steal personal and business information from travelers.
How to burn a password into your brain
It turns out that it can actually be surprisingly easy to train people to memorise a 56-bit password or passphrase, two Microsoft researchers found. 
iPhones are a security threat to the state, China claims
China has cited Apple iPhone’s ability to track and time-stamp users’ whereabouts as reason to declare the mobile phone hazardous to state security. 
“Gameover” malware returns from the dead…
In early June 2014, a internationally co-ordinated law enforcement effort against the criminals behind the infamous Gameover malware pretty much wiped out their botnet altogether. Bad news – it looks as though Gameover is back…
LibreSSL ships first portable version, now up to 48% less huge!
LibreSSL, OpenBSD’s drop-in replacement for OpenSSL started after the pain of Heartbleed, has just published its first “portable” version. If you’re a coder and you’re interested in security, why not try it and see what you think?
No login links in emails, please! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Got a minute to spare? Watch this week’s 60 Second Security…
Microsoft and No-IP reach settlement over malware takedown
Microsoft has reached a settlement with domain provider No-IP less than two weeks after it grabbed 23 internet domain names, knocking out 1.8 million customer sites and over 5 million hostnames. 
Tor Project is NOT getting sued for enabling revenge porn site PinkMeth
A Texas revenge-porn victim is suing the operators of revenge-porn site PinkMeth.com and was (until her lawyer figured out just what, exactly, the anonymising service Tor actually is) suing The Tor Project for helping PinkMeth to operate anonymously. 
UK to rush through “emergency” phone and internet data retention law
The UK is rushing through Parliament what it calls an emergency law that will ensure it retains access to people’s phone and internet records, in spite of the European Court of Justice having said in April that data retention violates human rights. It’s not a rehash of the Snooper’s Charter, politicians claim, but there’s not a lot of time to eyeball it to make sure that’s true. 