Within 1 hour of the online onslaught against his daughter, the former Red Sox pitcher had published tormentors’ names and backgrounds. One was suspended, another lost his job, and others were kicked off school athletic teams. 
Monthly Archives: March 2015
D-Link patches critical router flaws, says more fixes to come
D-Link has taken action over three serious vulnerabilities discovered in several of its home routers, and it’s promising more fixes next week.
The FREAK bug in TLS/SSL – what you need to know
The FREAK bug affects TLS/SSL, the security protocol that puts the S into HTTPS and the padlock in your browser’s address bar. Paul Ducklin explains in plain English…
Google quietly drops promised encryption by default for Android Lollipop
Google has confirmed reports: that sweet encryption-by-default it promised for Android Lollipop left a sour taste when it came to device performance. 
Police may charge data centre in largest ever child abuse images bust
Police might press charges against the owner of the drives that hold the child abuse image material – most likely, an Ontario data centre that houses the files.
Venmo mobile payment service under fire for security carelessness
Venmo is taking heat after a news report last week revealed security holes you could “drive a truck through,” in the words of one aggrieved Venmo user whose account was drained of $2850.
Facebook explains when and why it peeps at your account
A Facebook engineer asked if it would be OK to take a look at Paavo Siljamäki’s profile. Sure, he said. Then he wondered: how many employees can get in without credentials?
Is this the ultimate spam fail?
We’re not sure whether we ought to laugh at cybercrime. But sometimes you just have to smile at the antics of would-be cybercriminals.
Woman reunited with stolen iPhone thanks to accidental Facebook selfie post
A woman and her iPhone have been happily reunited, thanks to the new owner having accidentally posted a selfie onto her Facebook page that went viral.
Uber subpoenas GitHub in search for hacker of driver database
A breach of one of its databases in May 2014, in which the names and driver license numbers of 50,000 “driver partners” were stolen, is the latest entry on Uber’s growing list privacy and security blunders.