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Tech giants back bill that privacy advocates claim is toothless

The main disagreement: if consumers will be able to delete their data or whether the law would give companies ways to wiggle out.

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Family tracking app spilled pics, names and real-time location data

A journalist/researcher team got a sensitive database taken down after the vendor responsible failed to acknowledge a problem.

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Medtronic cardiac implants can be hacked, FDA issues alert

Two serious flaws in the telemetry protocol could allow a hacker to control vulnerable Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs).

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Thousands of API and cryptographic keys leaking on GitHub every day

Researchers have found that one of the most popular source code repositories in the world is still housing thousands of publicly accessible user credentials.

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Update now! WordPress hackers target Easy WP SMTP plugin

Two hacking groups have been spotted targeting websites running unpatched versions of the WordPress plugin Easy WP SMTP.

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New ratings point to keyless cars that can stand up to relay attacks

Researchers rated six of the 11 newly launched cars as being easy to open up and drive off with a cheap relay device anyone can buy online.

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Monday review – the hot 29 stories of the week

From an ex-employee from IT hell to Window 7's upcoming patchocalypse, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time!

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Facebook password crisis – what to do? [VIDEO]

Watch this special edition of Naked Security Live - we answer the questions people have been asking us, like "Should I stay or should I go?"

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BitLocker hacked? Disk encryption – and why you still need it [VIDEO]

Is BitLocker cracked? Is disk encryption still worth it? The answers are "No" and "Yes", and here's why.

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Microsoft Windows 7 patch warns of coming patchocalypse

Microsoft has issued a patch to remind Windows 7 users that they’ll soon have no patches.

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Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers

He was fired after four weeks, ripped off the credentials of former colleague "Speedy", and will be mulling it all over for two years in jail.

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Spycam sex videos of 1,600 motel guests sold to paying subscribers

1,600 guests were filmed with hidden webcams that livestreamed the action. The site also sold videos.

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Scammer pleads guilty to fleecing Facebook and Google of $121m

Large, worldly tech companies would never fall for a wire transfer invoice scam, would they?

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Change your Facebook password now!

Facebook has done an audit and shocked even itself by finding plaintext passwords in logfiles back to 2012. Change your password now!

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Researcher finds new way to sniff Windows BitLocker encryption keys

A researcher has published a new and relatively simple way that Windows BitLocker encryption keys can be sniffed in less secure configurations as they travel from Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) during boot.

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Flaw in popular PDF creation library enabled remote code execution

A researcher has discovered a high-severity bug in a popular PHP library used for creating PDFs.

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Opera brings back free VPN service to its Android browser

Opera lost its Android browser's VPN after it was sold to a Chinese consortium, but now it's back.

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FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes

According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.

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Ep. 024 – Sextortion, malicious adverts and randomness [PODCAST]

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - listen now!

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Google researcher discovers new type of Windows security weakness

Microsoft will patch a new Windows security bug discovered by Google Project Zero - despite finding no evidence that it poses a threat.

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Researchers fret over Netflix interactive TV traffic snooping

No sooner has Netflix made an interactive TV show than people are already pulling apart its privacy implications.

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