The hacking-and-cracking crew known as Lizard Squad tweeted that Facebook and Instagram were down. Before you could say, “But we don’t crash EVER,” that had turned into “Lizard Squad did it”…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Google asked to muzzle Waze ‘police-stalking’ app
US police are typically the ones to surveil, not the other way around, as Google’s crowd-sourced, police-mapping traffic app is doing. Now sheriffs are asking Google to pull the plug on it. 
Pinterest to sell ads based on what you’re thinking of buying
Been pinning pictures of fancy kitchens? Well, isn’t that interesting, says every appliance maker on the planet.
Beyond “fake invoice” scams – crooks can get money out of real invoices, too!
If I told you to change your record of a supplier’s bank account so I got all the payments, would you do so? 1000s of companies did, and didn’t spot the misdirected payments until an average of $100,000 had gone west…
Lizard Squad moves on from Xbox and PlayStation, hacks Malaysia Airlines
The Malaysia Airlines website was defaced by hackers claiming to represent Lizard Squad and the ‘Cyber Caliphate’.
Adobe gets second Flash zero-day patch ready 2 days early!
Good news from Adobe about CVE-2015-0311, the unpatched zero-day in Flash. The patch is now ready via auto-update – 2 days early!
SCADA programmers? It’s time for security by default! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly 60-second security video. Enjoy the news in just one minute…
Psychological profile-based security – could it work?
Fujitsu’s working on technology that can assign security countermeasures based on a user’s psychological profile and risk tendencies – warning them ahead of time, before an attack can be carried out successfully.
Anonymous journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in jail
Barrett Brown has been sentenced to 63 months in prison on charges related to the Stratfor hack.
How the Obamacare website healthcare.gov leaks private data
HealthCare.gov, the US insurance exchange website that is a central component of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), is sending personal information on users to third parties including Facebook, Google, and web analytics companies.