Advance Fee Fraud, or AFF, is an age-old scam that goes back at least to the 16th century. Here are some resources you can use to help vulnerable friends and family keep out of the clutches of online romance scammers…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
“Oops! I’m sorry about that” – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here it is – this week’s 60 Second Security video. News that will amuse, and it only takes a minute…
Apple kills the POODLE – also fixes Shellshock in case you forgot
Apple just shipped OS X 10.10 Yosemite – including a fix for the POODLE vulnerability. Mavericks and Mountain Lion also got updates to kill the POODLE. As for Lion, now three releases off the pace…bad news.
Average person has 19 passwords – but 1 in 3 don’t make them strong enough
The vast majority of people are leaving themselves at risk of identity theft, fraud and extortion by not taking simple but necessary steps to protect themselves online, according to a new study.
Facebook’s new Safety Check lets you tell friends you’re safe when disaster strikes
Facebook has graced its users with a new tool called Safety Check that lets people tell friends if they’re OK when disaster strikes.
SSCC 169 – Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the biggest breach of all? [PODCAST]
It’s Chet Chat time! Here’s this week’s episode of our news-you-can-use security podcast…
‘The Snappening’: stolen Snapchat photos site defaced, details of site owner published
Owner of TheSnappening.org photo site, Mudit Grover, took the stolen Snapchat images and the site down. But within hours, attackers identifying themselves as “Team Danny” allegedly took over the domain and published Grover’s personal details. 
POODLE attack takes bytes out of your enrypted data – here’s what to do
Heartbleed, Shellshock, Sandworm…and now POODLE. It’s a security hole that could let crooks read your encrypted web traffic. Paul Ducklin takes you through how it works, and what you can do to avoid it, in plain (well, plain-ish) English…
Snapchat to address sketchy third-party apps with public API … at some point
Oh, those darn third-party apps, their home-brewed APIs and their photo-leaking ways, Snapchat moaned on Wednesday morning, promising to cook up a public API to fix the situation… sooner or later. 
U2’s Bono says sorry for foisting album on everybody’s iTunes
In a Facebook interview, a U2 fan – or, well, maybe just somebody who took advantage of the chance to tell off the band – asked the band to please never release an automatically downloaded album again, given that “It’s really rude.”