If a legitimate email looks like a phishing email, then how are you supposed to spot what is genuine and what isn’t? John Shier takes a look.
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Medical centre staff post woman’s STD diagnosis on Facebook
A woman whose medical record was posted to a Facebook group named “Team No Hoes” is suing the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, two employees and a former boyfriend who allegedly talked the healthcare workers into posting the screenshot. 
Latest OpenSSL flaws can lead to information leakage, code execution and DoS
Only two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL captured global headlines we have another critical update for OpenSSL fixing 6 new flaws.
CryptoLocker wannabe “Simplelocker” scrambles your files, holds your Android to ransom
“If the crooks keep copying Windows threats that were financially lucrative,” you’re thinking, “we’ll soon see Android ransomware that doesn’t just lock your device, but locks up your data instead, or as well.” Guess what?
Facebook troll jailed for posting he was ‘glad’ teacher was murdered
A Facebook troll has been jailed after posting he was “glad” a much-loved UK teacher, Ann Maguire, got “stabbed up”.
Google says half of email is sent unencrypted
It’s been an encryption-intensive start to the week – good news for all of us who are wary of snooping. 
Facebook’s new audio feature won’t snoop on us, it says
Listening in and identifying your TV and music is opt-in only, Facebook’s security head honcho said, and no, he wouldn’t want it in his pocket either if it was recording everything going on around him.
Fight internet surveillance, Reset The Net
5 June 2014 is Reset The Net. It’s a day to take back our privacy by using strong encryption whenever and wherever we can and insisting that the organisations we rely upon do too.
Naked Security now available in HTTPS
You can now browse your favourite computer security news website and make it more difficult for the NSA to spy on you at the same time!
SSCC 150 – TrueCrypt, Gameover, CryptoLocker and whither mobile malware? [PODCAST]
This week, Chet and Duck dig into the bafflement of the disappearing TrueCrypt encryption software: did it jump, or was it pushed? They also look at the takedown of Gameover and CryptoLocker, and look into what we can learn from ten years of mobile malware.
