After years of embarrassment, I'm finally ready to admit how and why my Instagram account got hacked.
Lees meerToday is Data Privacy Day. We asked around at Sophos for some tips from people that live security day in and day out.
Lees meerAn experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it last week.
Lees meer”Hi there,” said the polite (and fake) help desk, leading to a back-and-forth between a lying scammer and a lying security analyst.
Lees meerOf all the calamities that befall email users, few are more dreaded than the ‘reply all’ storm.
Lees meerFrom the US gov's emergency directive to the 10 Year Challenge, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.
Lees meerYouTube personality Philip DeFranco warned that the messages pretending to be from him and other top influencers are scams.
Lees meerEmotet is moving, shape-shifting target for admins and their security software. Here's what we've learned from dealing with outbreaks.
Lees meerThe US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an emergency directive tightening DNS security after a recent wave of domain hijacking attacks targeting government websites.
Lees meerYour likes, interest and personality can be gleaned from as few as 8-9 friends on social media, whether you're on the platform or not.
Lees meerA man has been arrested a year after stealing €10m ($15m) of the IoT-focused cryptocurrency IOTA using bogus software that tricked users.
Lees meerAdverts on Facebook featuring fake celebrity endorsements scam people out of their savings, and Facebook is now doing something about it.
Lees meerA bomb threat spam campaign that hit North America last month may have been engineered using a flaw in GoDaddy’s domain management process, it was revealed this week.
Lees meerThe decision means Yelp, and other platforms, are still protected from liability for user-submitted content under the CDA's Section 230.
Lees meerDid you see the story about the US family whose Nest camera "warned" them of an impending nuclear attack? Here's how to keep hackers out...
Lees meerApple has issued its January security updates fixing a list of mostly shared CVE flaws affecting iOS and macOS with a smattering for Safari, watchOS, tvOS, and iCloud for Windows.
Lees meerHanging up on the fact-checkers probably isn't the best way for a news outlet to assure them that it's trustworthy.
Lees meerHere's the latest Naked Security podcast. Enjoy!
Lees meerOnline gamblers lose their private data as yet another unsecured Elasticsearch database is discovered.
Lees meerLast week hackers allegedly compromised an admin’s Steam account and used it to spawn planes, tanks, and whales in Atlas.
Lees meerIn a landmark ruling, France’s data protection commissioner has fined Google 50 million Euros (around $57m) for violating Europe’s privacy laws.
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