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31 October 2015 - 16:51, by , in News, No comments
A few readers have contacted us to say that they got going OK with the latest #sophospuzzle… …but then they got stuck and didn’t really know how to continue. We gave a number of hints via the #sophospuzzle hashtag on Twitter, which helped a few of you over the line. But Twitter isn’t really the...
31 October 2015 - 13:49, by , in Uncategorized, No comments
Jealous lovers or suspicious spouses might be tempted to spy on their significant other’s smartphone – to snoop on texts or phone calls, peek at contacts, or scour the device for files such as photos. Some companies like mSpy and StealthGenie freely market spying apps that help snoopers to do all of those things, and more, without the device user’s...
30 October 2015 - 16:46, by , in News, No comments
When I was a youngster in the ’80s, a talking toy bear called Teddy Ruxpin was all the rage. Teddy was no Ted, the foul-mouthed stuffed bear who comes to life in the raunchy 2012 film (and its sequel): Teddy Ruxpin couldn’t interact with you; he was more of a furry cassette tape player with animatronic eyes and...
30 October 2015 - 12:58, by , in News, No comments
Timing attacks are an interesting part of computer security. As an extreme example, imagine that your computer took one second to verify each character in your login password. And now imagine that it stopped checking at the first wrong character, for reasons of efficiency. You could quickly figure out the right password by timing how...
30 October 2015 - 11:22, by , in Uncategorized, No comments
There’s now yet more mystery in the recent Talk Talk “breach” case. Talk Talk is a UK communications company that admitted, about a week ago, that its website had suffered a “significant and sustained cyber attack.” Unfortunately, if all you know is that Something Bad Happened, it’s often very hard to pin down exactly what...
30 October 2015 - 11:15, by , in News, No comments
MIT has created a device that can discern where you are, who you are, and which hand you’re moving, from the opposite side of a building, through a wall, even though you’re invisible to the naked eye. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have long thought it could be possible to...
30 October 2015 - 10:36, by , in News, No comments
The more cyberthreats spiral, the more cybersecurity pros we need to fend them off. But a new study shows that there are a number of blockages keeping the talent pipeline from being filled. For one, young adults aren’t aware of job opportunities, though they’re generally interested. What’s more, schools aren’t preparing students for the jobs,...
29 October 2015 - 23:01, by , in News, No comments
There’s another data breach to report – and it’s a big one, affecting approximately 13 million customers of the “free” web hosting company 000Webhost. The breached data, which includes customer names, emails and plaintext passwords (in other words, the passwords weren’t securely stored), has reportedly been put up for sale on underground markets. What’s worse,...
29 October 2015 - 16:12, by , in News, No comments
Action Fraud and the City of London Police have launched a new initiative that aims to separate cybercrime and fraud facts from fiction. Dubbed “Urban Fraud Myths,” the thirteen day campaign kicked off with a look at online dating, a crime which swindled 3543 Brits out of £33.65 million ($51 million) in the last year. Perhaps...
Information on nearly 14 million users of 000webhost, a Lithuanian web hosting service, was spilled earlier this year when a hacker exploited an old version of the company’s website and gained access to the backend. 13.5 million customer usernames, plaintext passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and names were exposed as part of the breach, according...