A new Google study has found that the true masterpieces of phishing are successful 45% of the time. It’s just another example of how phishers may be old dogs, but they can sure learn new tricks. 
Tag Archives: Security threats
Operation Onymous: 17-nation bust takes out over 400 “hidden services”
It turns out that last week’s bust of Silk Road 2.0’s kingpin was just a hint at what was coming: namely, a multinational crackdown on dark-market sites hidden away on the Tor network. 
Department of Homeland Security employee data breached in “state-sponsored attack”
Personal data may well have been snatched out of the US government’s top employee background-checking firm in what officials are calling a major security breach. 
Navy gunners unphased by “integer overflow bug” concerns
Today, Naked Security received an out-of-the-ordinary email… ..from a vacationing coder with a penchant for fitting geekiness into regular life! We loved his story. We think you will too.
3 ways to make your Yahoo Mail account safer
Following on from our detailed guide to securing your webmail, here’s a quick breakdown of how to make the most important fixes, for users of Yahoo Mail.
100 Bitcoin bounty slapped onto head of blackmailer who DDoSed Bitalo
No, thank you, we will *not* pay you 1 Bitcoin to stop the attack and teach us about our supposed vulnerabilities, Bitalo said, after being threatened with a DDoS. Instead, we will pay 100x that amount to track you down.
College kids still using Snapchat despite ‘The Snappening’, says report
A study found that 75% of undergraduates said they planned to keep on using Snapchat in the same way as before, despite photos being snatched from a non-secure third-party service.
HTML5 goes officially live – now you really CAN say goodbye to Java in your browser!
Of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5. That’s quite a journey! Paul Ducklin takes look at where we are now…
CurrentC gets user email addresses pickpocketed
CurrentC is a competitor to Apple Pay and Google Wallet. Should we worry about it getting its fingers into our bank accounts, given the recent data breach?
Millions of Drupal websites at risk from failure to patch
You should assume that your Drupal 7 website has been compromised if you didn’t patch it within 7 hours of the release of Drupal 7.32 on 15 October 2014.