Selfie stealing malware found in popular Android beauty camera apps

By Waqas
We all want to look perfect in the pictures that we post online and beauty camera apps are our best bet in order to fine-tune our pictures. However, according to the findings of Trend Micro researchers, these kinds of applications are performi… Continue reading Selfie stealing malware found in popular Android beauty camera apps

Employee infects US govt network with malware after visiting 9,000 porn sites

By Uzair Amir
Due to the carelessness of an employee, who apparently was a porn fan, the network of the satellite imaging facility, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the EROS Center, South Dakota got infected with malware. An audit carried out by th… Continue reading Employee infects US govt network with malware after visiting 9,000 porn sites

Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Imagine you’ve gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it’s for isn’t very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail… Continue reading Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Imagine you’ve gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it’s for isn’t very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail that ties the password to a porn site. The e-mail title contains… Continue reading Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Solar Pi Cluster Scours Internet for Nudes

There seems to be a universal truth on the Internet: if you open up a service to the world, eventually somebody will come in and try to mess it up. If you have a comment section, trolls will come in and fill it with pedantic complaints (so we’ve heard anyway, naturally we have no experience with such matters). If you have a service where people can upload files, then it’s a guarantee that something unsavory is eventually going to take up residence on your server.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what [Christian Haschek] found while developing his open source image hosting platform, …read more

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School Principal Gets 9 Years in Prison for Trading Nude Pictures of Students

By Carolina
An ex-Kentucky high school principal Stephen Kyle Goodlett has been
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