Recently, we came across an intriguing phishing campaign that combines two feared products of the information age. Gatsos (speed cameras) and ransomware, rolled into one attack!
Daily Archives: November 3, 2014
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg sentenced to 3.5 years in jail over CSC hack
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and an accomplice identified only as “T2” were convicted of hacking into a server belonging to American tech giant CSC in February 2012.
College kids still using Snapchat despite ‘The Snappening’, says report
A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
HTML5 goes officially live – now you really CAN say goodbye to Java in your browser!
Of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5. That’s quite a journey! Paul Ducklin takes look at where we are now…
Police can demand fingerprints but not passcodes to unlock phones, rules judge
Fingerprints are what you *are*, passcodes are what you *know*. Therefore the police can demand your fingerprints to unlock a phone without contravening the Fifth Amendment, according to a judge in Virginia, USA. 