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Monthly Archives: October 2014
OS X Yosemite Wi-Fi problems – can you help us solve them?
Most early adopters of OS X Yosemite are enjoying a refreshingly clean new look with a bunch of updated applications. But for a few, it’s a Wi-Fi network merry-go-round…
Woman charged with planting spyware on cop’s phone
A woman has been charged after eavesdropping on “sensitive law enforcement communications” by tapping the mobile phone of her police officer ex.
Is your phone line a ‘6-figure liability waiting to happen’?
Premium-rate service scams are sticking businesses – particularly small ones using local carriers – with outrageous phone bills, to the tune of $4.73 billion globally for 2013. Many businesses aren’t even aware that they can be stuck paying the bill (or fighting it in court). 
UK considering imprisoning ‘cowardly, venomous trolls’ for up to 2 years
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said that new laws would quadruple the current maximum six-month term and show his determination to “take a stand against a baying cyber-mob”. 
Apple pushes out iOS 8.1 – kills the mobile POODLE and closes some, ahem, “backdoors”
The marquee vulnerablity fixed in iOS 8.1 is, as you might expect, POODLE. But there are other cryptographic fixes in iOS 8.1 that are equally important…because cryptography is notoriously hard to get right first time.
Facebook prowls the internet looking for your password
Facebook explains that it’s keeping its eye out for credentials – email, password combinations – dropped on sites after data breaches, running them against its own users’ credentials to see if password reuse is going to land its users in trouble. 
FBI Director James Comey says Apple and Google go “too far” with default encryption
FBI Director James Comey says Apple and Google go too far with default encryption settings on mobile devices, including the iPhone 6 and Nexus 6 running on Android 5.0 Lollipop. Does the FBI really have a legal right to exploit encryption backdoors to pursue suspects?
Whisper CTO trashes reports that it tracks even those users who turn off geolocation
Supposedly anonymous social media app Whisper actually tracks some users – particularly newsworthy ones – even after they’ve specifically opted out of geolocation, according to reports.
Facebook: Dear DEA, please don’t set up fake profiles to trap criminals
Facebook isn’t happy with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).