Here’s our weekly one-minute security video. Sending spam, cracking the Blackphone and the GHOST in the machine. Enjoy…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
ZeroAccess click fraud botnet coughs back to life
The once-mighty botnet is now only a shadow of its former self, but it’s reputation alone still makes it a headline grabber…
WhatsApp Web has privacy holes that could expose user photos
WhatsApp has just rolled out a new service called WhatsApp Web that allows users to sync the messaging app between their mobile devices and desktop, but the new web client has a couple of privacy pitfalls that indicate it’s not really ready for its close-up.
IsAnybodyDown’s Craig Brittain banned from the ‘revenge porn’ business
The operator of a ‘revenge porn’ website got away with a slapped wrist after publishing nude photos of over 1,000 women online.
Does size matter? It does if you’re French…and a chess-loving hacker!
It’s Chess, Captain, but not as we know it! A French programmer has broken a record that’s stood for more than 30 years: the smallest chess program in the world. Sort of…
Facebook to fill with (more!) kittens in Wickr’s message-hiding scheme
Secure messaging app Wickr has launched a timed, private photo stream that lets users upload private images to Facebook, covering them with kitten images that only user-selected people can decode. 
Dating site buys back 20 million hacked email addresses
Despite the hacker putting the email addresses up for sale, the undisclosed sum is apparently not ransom, it’s an “award”, says hacked site Topface.
Super Bowl XLIX – a costly spectacle amid heightened security and surveillance
The Department of Homeland Security has declared that there is not a specific, credible threat against the Super Bowl this year, but that’s not stopping the agency from going all out on security and surveillance.
The GHOST vulnerability – what you need to know
The funkily-named bug of the week is GHOST. Here’s how it got its name, why there’s a problem, and what you can do about it…
Hotels that block personal Wi-Fi hotspots will get busted, says FCC
So ends Marriott’s campaign to block guests’ hotspots and force guests to pay for its own Wi-Fi, even though they don’t threaten security. 