Gone are the sex scandals, excessive use of chauffeur driven cars, and lavish expenses used to spiff up MPs’ homes.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Hackers compromise 100,000 IRS tax accounts with pre-stolen data
The Internal Revenue Service has confirmed that attackers accessed 100,000 taxpayers’ accounts using personal data stolen elsewhere.
Get into Infosec Europe 2015 for free, hear great talks!
Get a free pass to Infosec Europe (2/3/4 June 2015) and stop by at our stand to say hello. Attend our free talks…no paid actors, no sales pitches and no canned product demos: we’re giving educational presentations that we hope will both entertain and educate.
Phones’ accelerometers allow you to be tracked on the metro
No GPS or cell towers triangulation necessary. All it takes is learning the world’s unique metro routes, then listening as phones jiggle along. 
Yup, we really are terrible at those password recovery questions
When we forget our passwords we’re often faced with recovery questions like “What’s your favourite food?” They’re a backdoor into our accounts so they’re supposed to be both secure and memorable. They’re not.
You STILL support encryption designed to be crackable in 1995? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Watch this week’s “60 Second Security” – the one-minute news roundup video with attitude!
High schooler allegedly hired third party to DDoS his school district
He might face state and federal charges. The attack crippled more than 50 schools, forcing some students to retake tests multiple times, among other miseries. 
Adult FriendFinder hacked, users’ intimate details exposed on Dark Web
Adult FriendFinder, a website billed as a way for people to “find friends, sex, flings and hookups,” has had a serious data breach. Now millions of people who thought they were using a discrete service to find casual sex have had their private information exposed online.
IC3 urges social media users to beware: scams and fraud are surging
12% of the 269,422 complaints received in 2014 had a social media aspect, be it doxing, clickjacking or pharming. Here’s how to stay safe. 
Scotland Yard worried The X-Files and Star Trek could inspire anarchy in the UK
Special agents working at Scotland Yard worried that cult religious groups inspired by TV series like Star Trek and The X-Files might commit widespread acts of violence ahead of the new millennium.