A nanny was spooked last week by a cyber creep peeping in on her via a baby monitor while she changed a baby’s diaper.
Tag Archives: Security threats
ZeroAccess click fraud botnet coughs back to life
The once-mighty botnet is now only a shadow of its former self, but it’s reputation alone still makes it a headline grabber…
Dating site buys back 20 million hacked email addresses
Despite the hacker putting the email addresses up for sale, the undisclosed sum is apparently not ransom, it’s an “award”, says hacked site Topface.
Hotels that block personal Wi-Fi hotspots will get busted, says FCC
So ends Marriott’s campaign to block guests’ hotspots and force guests to pay for its own Wi-Fi, even though they don’t threaten security. 
Cop who stole nude photos from arrested women’s seized phones escapes jail
Sean Harrington pleaded no contest to felony charges related to secretly forwarding suspects’ photos to his and other officers’ phones. 
Google asked to muzzle Waze ‘police-stalking’ app
US police are typically the ones to surveil, not the other way around, as Google’s crowd-sourced, police-mapping traffic app is doing. Now sheriffs are asking Google to pull the plug on it. 
Beyond “fake invoice” scams – crooks can get money out of real invoices, too!
If I told you to change your record of a supplier’s bank account so I got all the payments, would you do so? 1000s of companies did, and didn’t spot the misdirected payments until an average of $100,000 had gone west…
Lizard Squad moves on from Xbox and PlayStation, hacks Malaysia Airlines
The Malaysia Airlines website was defaced by hackers claiming to represent Lizard Squad and the ‘Cyber Caliphate’.
Psychological profile-based security – could it work?
Fujitsu’s working on technology that can assign security countermeasures based on a user’s psychological profile and risk tendencies – warning them ahead of time, before an attack can be carried out successfully.
Fake Facebook account case settled with DEA who admits no wrongdoing
The Feds have agreed to pay $134,000 to settle a case over having taken a phony Facebook profile out to lure suspects. Nothing in the ruling prohibits future use of such deceptive tactics. 