The bank didn’t believe the kids – who are both commendable white hats! – until they presented documents showing things like how much cash was in the machine.
Tag Archives: Security threats
What we learned from Edward Snowden
Tapping the conversations of world leaders, facial recognition, PRISM, Tempura, Upstream, XKeyscore… Whether you think Snowden’s a hero or a traitor, there’s no denying that revelations about widespread spying by the NSA keep pouring out. One year on from the first leak, we thought we’d take a look back at what we’ve learned.
UK hackers could “face the justice they deserve” with up to life in jail
A proposed amendment to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 will carry a sentence of up to lifetime imprisonment. The current Act only allows for a maximum sentence of 10 years behind bars, which ministers feel does not adequately reflect the potential damage posed to people and the UK economy.
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?
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!
Sydney teen arrested as hacking hoaxster sends SWAT team to his house
Having been told that residents were tied up inside the home, and that shots had been fired, officers swooped on the Bonar Street address at 4.40 am. But it was all a hoax.
Move over Heartbleed – here comes another SSL/TLS bug
Which widely used open source SSL/TLS cryptographic library just recently fixed a critical bug caused by a buffer overflow? (Hint. The software isn’t OpenSSL and the vulnerability isn’t Heartbleed.)
‘Half of American adults hacked’ in the past year – really?
A new study publicized this week claims that almost half of all American adults have had their personal data hacked in the past year. Headline-grabbing truth-stretching? Or have 110 million Americans really been hacked?
Which of your favourite websites are terrible at passwords?
The answer: most of them! In fact, the password policies of 86% of the most popular sites out there don’t even qualify as adequate, according to a security roundup done quarterly by password management firm Dashlane. 