The ex-lover of a Pasadena teacher has been arrested and bailed, accused of breaking into his school email account and using it to send out “sexually explicit” photos of said teacher to students and fellow staff.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Forget trick-or-treating – Kill a Zombie this Halloween
The crooks can’t have a botnet without the bots to join it. So let’s take their bots away! Killing computer zombies is the perfect sort of altruism: you help the global internet community simply by helping yourself.
Don’t wear your Google Glass or other wearables when watching a movie
Two trade groups have officially adopted a zero-tolerance policy against all wearable recording devices being on during showtime. 
How bots and zombies work, and why you should care
You probably have a firewall that blocks inbound network connections by default. So how come cybercrooks can send commands to your computer if it’s infected with a bot or zombie?
CurrentC gets user email addresses pickpocketed
CurrentC is a competitor to Apple Pay and Google Wallet. Should we worry about it getting its fingers into our bank accounts, given the recent data breach?
Millions of Drupal websites at risk from failure to patch
You should assume that your Drupal 7 website has been compromised if you didn’t patch it within 7 hours of the release of Drupal 7.32 on 15 October 2014.
Epidemic of medical data breaches leaking all our most sensitive information
Health data is considered among the most private of information, but continues to leak out in a dazzling range of ways.
3 ways to make your Gmail account safer
Following on from our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here’s a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes, for users of Google’s Gmail.
White House networks hacked
Attackers broke into unclassified White House computer networks in the past 2-3 weeks. It’s far from surprising, one unnamed official said, given that it’s a “constant battle” between the government, trying to secure its sensitive systems, and bad actors seeking to intrude on them. 
Snapchat escapes Australian cyberbullying crackdown, for now
Australia’s cyberbullying crackdown won’t see the country putting any legal muscle into forcing “smaller” social media firms like Snapchat to take down harassing content, a Parliament spokesman said on Tuesday. 