Infosecurity News
A-level Student Hangs Himself After Police Ransomware Scam
17-year-old suffered from a form of autism
HealthCare.gov Shares Patient Data with Marketers
The White House says the firms are only analyzing the health insurance site's user experience.
Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day...But It Doesn't Work
Millions of PCs are still vulnerable to ad fraud, ransomware and malvertising.
Lords Gang Up to Try to Force Snooper’s Charter into Law
Cross-party alliance tables amendments to existing bill which would sneak in new powers
Journalist Barrett Brown Gets Five Years After Linking to Hacked Stratfor Info
Brown also threatened FBI agent and intefered with search warrant
China Hits Back at MITM Outlook Claims
Beijing blames anti-China forces, but Greatfire.org claims its facts add up
Study Uncovers 40,000 Malicious Mobile Banking Apps
About half of the 40,000 malicious mobile banking apps contain trojanized malware.
Sky to Block Porn and More By Default
For Sky’s 5.3 million customers, the ISP will block sites with content for 13-year-olds and above.
Generation Z Predicts End to Passwords and PINs by 2020
Visa Europe research finds 16-24-year-old Brits want to see biometrics
Xbox Hacker Responsible for $100Mn Heist Pleads Guilty
Leroux is the third member of the international hacking ring accused of stealing proprietary data from Microsoft to plead guilty.
Snowden: UK Intercepted Hundreds of Journalist Emails
GCHQ recorded and saved emails from reporters at the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post, then shared them out on the agency’s intranet.
GoDaddy CSRF Flaw Allows Total Domain Hijacking
A researcher discovered there was absolutely no CSRF protection at all on many GoDaddy DNS management actions.
White Hat Rally 2015 Launch Party: You're invited
If you haven't yet got your ticket for the White Hat Rally launch party, sign up now and join the team for a social get together tomorrow night…
Biometric App Downloads to Top 770 Million by 2019 – Report
Juniper Research claims Apple and others will lead the way to widespread adoption
Verizon Fixes FiOS Flaw Which Exposed All Users' Emails
Customer spots serious API oversight
China Blamed for MITM Attack on Outlook
Man in the middle hits mobile users as crackdown on encrypted services continues
Carberp Rampages Across Australia
This is the third iteration of the kit since the source code for the original version was leaked in June 2013
Led by Ransomware, Android Threats Surge 75%
Attackers’ strategies have radically shifted from simple premium SMS scams
Experts Warn Facebook Users of ‘Hottest Snapchats’ Scam
Bitdefender reveals yet another lure which social media users should avoid
Firms Waste $1.3 Million Each Year on False Positives
Damballa report claims 21,000 hours are wasted dealing with fallout from poor security controls
