Don’t lock police out of popular consumer gadgets, lest law enforcement’s efforts to nab kidnappers or child predators be stymied, the US AG said, becoming the latest of a string of government officials to speak out since Google and Apple announced they were changing encryption on their mobile operating systems.
Daily Archives: October 1, 2014
SSCC 166.5 – Special edition from the Virus Bulletin 2014 conference [PODCAST]
Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski was at the Virus Bulletin 2014 conference in Seattle. In this special edition of the Chet Chat, Paul Ducklin puts Chet on the other side of the mic to find out more about both the technology and the ethics of anti-malware research.
Head of ‘StealthGenie’ mobile stalking app indicted for selling spyware
The indictment alleges that StealthGenie can and has recorded all incoming/outgoing voice calls; intercepted calls to be monitored in real time; allowed the buyer to call the phone and activate it at any time to monitor all surrounding conversations within a 15-foot radius; and allowed the buyer to monitor a target’s incoming and outgoing e-mail messages and SMS messages, incoming voicemail messages, address book, calendar, photographs, and videos—all without the knowledge of the phone’s user.
3 more essential security tasks you can do for your family today
Fetch your cape, family tech support hero, you’ve got work to do! Update it, lock it, encrypt it, and keep your nearest and dearest cybersecure.
How to pick a proper password [VIDEO]
Here’s a short and straight-talking video that not only shows you how to pick a proper password, but also explains why you should bother…
‘Anti-Facebook’ Ello: swamped with privacy-hungry refugees, bouncing back from DDoS
Either somebody really, really hates the idea of a social media platform that doesn’t sell ads based on user data, or Ello is so popular it got trampled. Either way, it’s been an outage-plagued few days for the service that thinks ad-based social networks are corrupt. 
Snapchat says fat spam is not its fault
Have your Snapchat friends taken to calling you fat recently? If so, don’t get mad at them – their suggestion that you pop a weight loss pill is probably the result of having their account hacked.