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Pinterest And StumbleUpon patch critical flaws that could have exposed over 100 million users' email addresses 27 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Websites Pinterest and StumbleUpon have patched critical vulnerabilities in their services that could have enabled an attacker to discover users' email addresses.
Whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome booted briefly offline for hosting "malicious content" 27 Aug 2013 | 07:10 pm
US whistleblower-friendly site Cryptome recently suffered a short outage, after it was booted offline by its ISP and then let back. Paul Ducklin looks for security lessons in the story...
Lady Gaga rallies Little Monsters against Applause ‘hackers’ 26 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a.k.a. Lady Gaga, has stirred up her Twitter followers by taking foul-mouthed aim at 'hackers' who leaked her latest single. Lee Munson asks, "Is this proof that n...
Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week 26 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
It's Monday again, so here are the last week's hot stories all in one place. Catch up quickly with the last 20 Naked Security articles!
NSA “cracked” UN teleconferencing system – how safe is yours? 26 Aug 2013 | 03:32 pm
German magazine Der Spiegel claims the NSA managed to crack the UN's videoconferencing system. How secure are *your* teleconferences? Do you keep your ears and eyes open for eavesdroppers?
Which web browser do you trust? [Poll] 25 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
We are used to choosing utility software based on simple, measurable, yardsticks. We choose things like word processors, video editors, IDEs and email clients based on what they can do and at what pri...
LastPass, hackable lights, Bradley Manning and Wackyleaks - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO] 24 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
What happened to LastPass that it needed a patch? How do Philips wireless lights handle security? What will become of Bradley Manning? And what has Wikileaks been up to lately? Take a look at 60 Seco...
Next version of the web will have resistance to surveillance at its core 24 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
The Internet Engineering Task Force is planning changes to the fundamental protocol that powers the web to make it more resistant to surveillance.
New Zealand narrowly passes domestic spying legislation 23 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
New Zealand has passed new spying laws which allow its main intelligence agency to snoop on domestic citizens and residents.
NSA 'technology glitch' violated US Constitution, nabbed 56,000 emails per year from non-terrorists 22 Aug 2013 | 11:47 pm
Court opinions declassified and released yesterday by James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, have revealed how the National Security Agency (NSA) collected tens of thousand of emails...
