Two federal agents have been charged with stealing digital currency during the FBI’s take-down of the Silk Road marketplace.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
G20 delegates’ personal data breached in autofill email glitch
The Australian immigration department sent an email to the wrong person, and so passport and visa details for the world’s head honchos got disclosed – a mistake the department decided didn’t warrant disclosure.
Man escapes from jail after sending fake bail email
An imprisoned fraudster cooked up a bogus set of bail instructions and emailed it to prison officials who then let him walk out. He granted himself a 3-day furlough, then turned himself back in.
World Backup Day – is your data safe enough?
Ransomware has made us all aware of the value of backups – but there are many other reasons to have a copy of your vital data in reserve!
DARPA’s plan to make software security “the domain of machines”
Bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock can sit unobserved in critically important software for years. The answer, according to DARPA, is intelligent software that fixes buggy programs while we sleep. Is it time to welcome our new robot guardians?
NSA faces security scare, this time physical: 1 killed, 1 injured in HQ incident
Security breaches at the US National Security Agency typically get a lot of publicity. This one is no exception, but it’s not a network intrusion or a data leak…
Slack gets hacked – rolls out two-factor authentication after user database breach
Slack is the latest start-up to make a big media splash in one of the worst possible ways – by acknowledging a data breach that exposed its users to malicious hackers.
Stolen Uber login credentials for sale on the dark web
At least two sellers on the dark net appear to be selling Uber customer logins for as little as $1, with one offering a discount for bulk purchases.
Hotel Wi-Fi router security hole: will this be the Ultimate Pwnie Award Winning Bug for 2015?
If you were a cracker, and you could write your own specifications for a remote unauthenticated read/write hole… …this is probably what you’d ask for.
Safari users win right to sue Google over secret cookies
The landmark case could determine if Google can be held accountable in the UK. Safari users have formed a group to seek damages.