Every cloud has a silver lining. Even for Ashley Madison customers. OK, it’s a tiny silver lining, but the stolen passwords were hashed decently…
Tag Archives: Privacy
Here’s a phish you might not spot – 60 Second Security
Our latest weekly security video – and it only takes a minute. Why not give it a try?
PayPal patches potential payment-stealing vulnerability
An XSS hole could apparently have allowed a crook to pop up a realistic PayPal “pay page” and steal the victim’s card data. Paul Ducklin takes a look…
How a crook could have taken over your Facebook pages
A Facebook bug hunter just found a hole through which crooks could take over your personal Facebook pages. Facebook fixed it PDQ…
California pushes 350-foot no-fly drone law
Operators would need express permission to legally fly UAVs above a property’s ground level: a hurdle that could ground tech’s big plans. 
Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden
In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.
Phone feared drowned posts selfies of adventures with firefighters
Soggy though it was, and passcode-protected it was not, its Facebook posts show it played a mean game of table tennis with its new buddies. 
Twitter muzzles Politwoops politician-tracking accounts
The US site was the first to go, and now 30 countries will no longer be able to track their politicians flip-flopping via deleted tweets.
Ashley Madison data breach leads to extortion attempts
“Send me 1.00000001 bitcoins or I’ll tell your spouse you were cheating” seems to be how it goes down…
Stingrays used to track petty crime
Baltimore revealed that it’s used stingrays 4300 times, and now we know most of that is on the level of check forgery and phone theft.