Malware and HTTPS – a growing love affair

HTTPS web encryption - blessing or curse? A new SophosLabs report looks at how much the crooks love TLS.

Council returns to using pen and paper after cyberattack

Ten days after a suspected ransomware attack, residents of the English borough of Redcar and Cleveland must be starting to wonder when their Council’s IT systems will return.

AI filter launched to block Twitter cyberflashing

A small but determined group of Twitter users think it is a good idea to direct message (DM) pictures of male genitals to complete strangers.

IOTA shuts down network temporarily to fight wallet hacker

Popular cryptocurrency IOTA has temporarily shut down its entire network after a hacker stole funds from ten of its highest-value users.

Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.

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What is Doxware?

Ransomware is a major security threat which affects individuals, businesses, and governments. Over the past few years, researchers have noticed an increase in a new type of ransomware: doxware. The post What is Doxware? appeared first on SecureMac.

Google pulls 500 malicious Chrome extensions after researcher tip-off

Google has abruptly pulled over 500 Chrome extensions from its Web Store that researchers discovered were stealing browsing data and executing click fraud and malvertising.

Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details

A court has forced Google to reveal the details of an anonymous poster who published an unpalatable review of a dentist.

Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency

The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.

Police bust alleged operator of Bitcoin mixing service Helix

The Ohio man is charged with running a Bitcoin mixer to launder over $300m—now worth $3.6b—on behalf of Dark Net crooks trying to hide out.

Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week

Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.

Bluetooth bugs – researchers find 10 “Sweyntooth” security holes

More trouble in the Internet of Things - Bluetooth firmware code in many devices is found to have numerous bugs.

Cookie-nabbing app could have served users side helping of XSS

A popular GDPR compliance WordPress plugin vendor has patched a flaw that rendered both site visitors and admins vulnerable to XSS attacks.

Suspect who refused to decrypt hard drives released after four years

The US Court of Appeals ruled that he couldn't continue to be held for refusing to give up his passcodes.

Facebook ices in-app dating in EU after questions from regulator

The app's rollout in the EU has been delayed until Facebook can show privacy regulators its data protection workings.

Self-driving car dataset missing labels for pedestrians, cyclists

Udacity Dataset 2, used to train thousands of engineers, contained thousands of unlabeled vehicles and hundreds of unlabeled pedestrians.

Corp.com is up for sale – check your Active Directory settings!

An old, dormant domain is going on sale - and the results could be catastrophic for enterprises with common Active Directory misconfigurations.

S2 Ep26: Robbin Hood ransomware, Twitter parodies and SMS 2FA WHAT? – Naked Security Podcast

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Firefox six-weekly security fixes are out – get them now!

No zero-day bugs, so by updating promptly you are keeping ahead of the crooks, not merely catching up!

Dell fixes privilege elevation bug in support software

Users of Dell SupportAssist should patch their software immediately to fix a software bug that could lead to arbitrary code execution.