A US reporter for National Public Radio found that NSA-style broad surveillance enabled by a pen-testing device and software crunching picked up on his research (in spite of Google’s default search encryption), intercepted uncut interview tape, ferreted out his interview subjects’ phone numbers and email addresses, and more. Still think there’s nobody out there interested in your boring data points?
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FCC DoSed into silence as John Oliver roused net neutrality trolls
Within hours of the comedian’s brilliant, 13-minute rant, the FCC’s comment section was crushed by a database DoS attack. The DoS rendered the site incapable of accepting any public comment at all, be it trollery or sanity.
SSCC 151 – Measuring vulns, Apple and Wi-Fi privacy, Android ransomware and more [PODCAST]
It’s our weekly security pocast! Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn…
Twitter jumps to block XSS worm in Tweetdeck
A cross-site scripting flaw was disclosed this morning affecting the popular Twitter application Tweetdeck. It has now been fixed, but not before it wormed its way through thousands of browsers.
P.F. Chang’s investigates possible credit card breach
Restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro says it is investigating claims of a data breach which may have led to debit and credit card details being posted on an underground forum.
Patch Tuesday wrap-up, June 2014 – both Adobe and Microsoft close “remotable” holes
Microsoft fixed 59 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer alone this month. Is that worryingly bad, or pleasingly good? Paul Ducklin investigates what actually came down the chute in the June 2014 Patch Tuesday…
Is TrueCrypt pining for the fjords?
An attempt at keeping the TrueCrypt dream alive has been kicked off, hosted in Switzerland. Will it make a difference? Sophos conducted a poll to see what IT managers think about TrueCrypt after all the news and speculation.
14-year-olds find manual online, hack an ATM during their school lunch hour
The bank didn’t believe the kids – who are both commendable white hats! – until they presented documents showing things like how much cash was in the machine.
“Turing Test” allegedly defeated – is it time to welcome your robot overlords?
There’s a lot of hype around the news that a computer has passed the “Turing Test” at last. But what is a Turing Test, and what does it teach us? Paul Ducklin digs into the story behind the story…
Ransom-taking iPhone hackers busted by Russian authorities
The mystery of the ransom messages from “Oleg Pliss,” and the iDevice locking attack that popped up in Australia and the US last month, appears to have been solved.