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A new study conducted by AV-Comparatives, a well-respected independent testing agency, has closely examined whether 250 security products for Android smartphones are capable of protecting users at all. The test evaluated whether Android anti-virus prod… Continue reading Google Play is flooded with hundreds of unsafe anti-virus products
A new survey has revealed that the majority of Brits are blissfully unaware that next month the UK Government will be requiring porn websites to verify that their users have obtained a “porn passport.”
Continue reading 53% of Britain’s most frequent porn watchers aren’t aware that they’re about to be blocked
You cannot trust the likes of Myspace to look after your data securely. Use internet services to archive your content if you wish, but you’d be wise to have your own backup too.
Continue reading MySpace has lost all the music users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
A hacker knocked millions off the listed price of an incredibly expensive home, and its owners aren’t at all happy…
Continue reading Zillow sued for $60 million after mansion listing hijacked
Online training site Skillbox says that it has come up with an imaginative way to reach out to potential clients, and invite them to change their careers from being accountants and become graphical designers instead.
The Russian firm’s idea? To send a… Continue reading Online training site says it is spamming insecure printers with adverts
Federal agencies and companies are required by law to disclose breaches, but Congress is under no such obligation – meaning that the public may have no idea that their political representatives have been hit.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire St… Continue reading US Senators say it shouldn’t be a secret when they’ve been hacked
Federal agencies and companies are required by law to disclose breaches, but Congress is under no such obligation – meaning that the public may have no idea that their political representatives have been hit.
It’s time this changed.
The post US Senato… Continue reading US Senators say it shouldn’t be a secret when they’ve been hacked
A $150 million mansion is hijacked online, Brits will soon have to scan their passport to watch internet porn, and are organisations right to pay up when hit by ransomware?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning … Continue reading Smashing Security #119: Hijacked homes, porn passports, and ransomware regret
A series of cartoons are aiming to educate children as young as four about how to stay safe online.
Continue reading Online safety cartoons for young kids
The WickedGen website bragged that it had over 120,000 users and almost one million sets of account details, offering monthly and yearly membership plans for those who wanted “access to thousands of premium accounts across a huge range of services.”
Re… Continue reading Man arrested for selling one million Netflix, Spotify, Hulu passwords