Microsoft and the Obama administration will appear in a federal appeals court today to decide whether or not companies with a presence in the US must hand over foreign-held data when presented with a valid search warrant.
Tag Archives: Featured
“The breach lasted a year. Or was it two?” [Chet Chat Podcast 213]
Join Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin for the latest episode of our security podcast. A fun quarter-hour of “news you can use”…
Self-driving cars can be stopped with a laser pointer
Security researcher Jonathan Petit was able to launch a denial-of-service attack against a self-driving car by overwhelming the car’s sensors with images of fake vehicles and other objects.
Apple iOS 9 Safari opens the flood gates to ad-blocking
Meanwhile, Chrome users got a scare when Google (inadvertently: WHEW!) disabled AdBlock in YouTube. Cue painfully long video ads.
Drunken attack on emotion-reading robot leaves it a little brain-dead
Companies reading our facial expressions and analysing our voices and body language may feel a bit creepy, but what a cute little face!
5 security tips for businesses (and everyone else!)
Do you keep databases with information about other people? Do you allow teleworkers, road warriors, suppliers, contractors and so on to connect in remotely? Do you accept payments, for example from credit cards or NFC devices? Do you make payments Read more…
Anatomy of a malicious email: Crooks exploiting recent Word hole
Crooks have recently been using CVE-2015-1641, a Word bug that was patched in April 2015. We explain why you really, really want to patch!
Has Twitter traced escaped Mexican drug baron ‘El Chapo’ to Costa Rica?
Is Joaquín Guzmán, aka ‘El Chapo’, really in Costa Rica? His son’s Twitter seems to say so, but should we take that at face value?
Gozi banking Trojan co-author pleads guilty
Latvian Deniss Calovskis may face as little as 2 years in jail for his role in developing the Gozi banking Trojan that infected over a million computers around the world.
Sexting teen accused of sexually exploiting himself
He’s 17, so he’s being tried as an adult for having a sext of his girlfriend (willingly given). And for “exploiting” himself by taking selfie sexts when he was a minor a year ago. 