Naked Security - Sophos

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Paul Ducklin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:42:36 +0000

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Cryptome.org hacked into serving up Blackhole exploit kit

Chester Wisniewski — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:18:50 +0000

Secret publishing site Cryptome.org was infected over the past weekend exposing thousands of users to the Blackhole exploit kit. Find out what happened and some advice for webmasters to keep their sites clean and safe.

350,000 users exposed by hardcore porn hack

Carole Theriault — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:42:34 +0000

A hacker claims to have stolen information from 350,000 users of Brazzers, a hardcore production company based in North America, to highlight a security vulnerability.

Beware of spam this Valentine's Day

Anna Brading — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:08:54 +0000

Looking forward to Valentine's Day? Need a last minute present? Don't let spammers take advantage of you.

Ticketmaster warns of hacked mailing list, Adobe Reader spams sent out

Graham Cluley — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:52:57 +0000

The UK branch of the ticketing firm Ticketmaster has warned its online customers that they might have received a series of unauthorised emails after its TicketWeb subsidiary's mailing list system was compromised.

Metropolitan Police malware warning issued - beware the ransomware attack!

Graham Cluley — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:52:38 +0000

The Metropolitan Police has warned Windows users of a malware attack that poses as a message from the computer crime-fighting cops themselves.

EPIC sues FTC over Google's planned privacy changes

Lisa Vaas — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:47:14 +0000

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to compel the agency to stop Google's planned privacy changes.

Sigh.. no, Facebook is not ending on March 15th 2012. Hoax spreads quickly

Graham Cluley — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:13:31 +0000

Facebook is to end on March 15 2012, claims the Weekly World News... and many Facebook users seem to believe it.

CIA website brought down - were Anonymous attackers responsible?

Graham Cluley — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:20:41 +0000

The CIA's website was brought down for some hours last night by what appears to have been an internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

Dutch ISP KPN hacked, credentials and personal information leaked

Chester Wisniewski — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:32:26 +0000

Dutch ISP KPN had over 500 of its customers personal information posted online after being hacked late last month. The data included names, addresses, passwords and telephone numbers.