Category: Naked Security

Our data is especially vulnerable when we ourselves are too: at border crossings and when in unfamiliar environments.

This IoT software flaw could render millions of consumer devices, including baby monitors and webcams, open to remote discovery and hijack.

The flaw makes it possible to overwrite the devices’ programming and insert an algorithm that turns them into artificial pancreases.

Put on your detective hat – the researchers who found it say it’s full of people’s data, but not who it belongs to.

Hacked Microsoft email accounts are being used by criminals to compromise victims’ cryptocurrency exchange accounts and empty their funds.

When is an address bar not an address bar? When it’s a fake.

The Good Guys from the Cyber Threat Alliance just published a report to help you keep the Bad Guys out of your network

The containerisation platform has asked 190k users to change their passwords after hackers gained access to a database of personal data.

For years, Facebook asked some new users for email passwords, then grabbed their contacts without consent (or any way to stop the process).

She must have been star-struck, she said, after the fraudster hid behind the Fast & Furious star’s photo and reached out from a fan page.

NIST thinks it has reached an important milestone in complex software testing with something called Combinatorial Coverage Measurement (CCM).

The New York Attorney General has accused major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud.

It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.

Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.

From DNS over HTTPS to Microsoft’s expiration policy – and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time.