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U.S. Energy Dept admits to second big data leak this year 21 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Personal information for 14,000 U.S. Department of Energy employees has leaked in a data breach, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The Department of Energy has confirmed a recent cyber incident ...
LastPass owns up to password-exposing Internet Explorer bug 20 Aug 2013 | 12:25 pm
“Password safe” company Lastpass has admitted to a bug in its Internet Explorer plug-in which could expose passwords from multiple online accounts after a browsing session. The bug allowed attackers...
Radar Love: how classic rock helps to highlight Java problems 20 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
Radar Love From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia: “Radar Love” is a song by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring. Music critic Bill Lamb rates this among his “top 10 driving songs” due to its lyrics a...
“Dr Jekyll” apps can sneak into App Store by hiding their dark side, researchers claim 20 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Apps with a hidden “dark side” could sneak past Apple’s approval process, according to researchers at Georgia Tech. The researchers proved this theory using a malicious app which was approved and down...
Dislike! No bounty for posting Facebook bug alert to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall 20 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
A security researcher demonstrated an exploit to Facebook in a very direct way – he used the bug to post directly to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook wall. Facebook responded by briefly deactivating his acc...
“Constant attack from malicious apps”: Facebook purge goes wrong 16 Aug 2013 | 10:51 am
An outage which affected Facebook apps and developer accounts this week was caused by over-zealous attempts to disable malicious apps, the social network has admitted. The outage, which locked app dev...
Justin Bieber’s AMAZING diet: Five social posts you should never click 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Most of us have faced cyber attacks sent by our best friends – Facebook “offers” they’ve clicked by accident, spamming everyone on their friends list, or Twitter stories they’ve shared without checkin...
New York Post and SocialFlow are latest victims of Twitter hackers 15 Aug 2013 | 05:45 pm
The New York Post has become the latest victim of a prolific hacking campaign targeting the social media accounts of worldwide media outlets – and SocialFlow, a social media company used by the Post a...
Hacker spies on and insults toddler in bed via baby monitor 15 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
A Texas family were horrified by an apparent hacker attack in which a criminal was able to spy on their two-year-old daughter and insult her through an internet-connected webcam. Marc Gilbert said th...
Catch me if you can: Can we predict who will fall for phishing emails? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:12 pm
User-profiling is an interesting approach to countering phishing. In fact, the idea that user training might be implemented via tailored software somewhat resembles an approach to anti-malware that Je...
