As of Monday, the Belgian-Facebook match is ON – let the rhetoric war begin!!! Belgian privacy body: “Facebook is as bad as the NSA!” Facebook: “If it weren’t for our infosec cookies, Belgium would become a cradle for cyber terrorism!” The “Facebook is spying on people all over the world, just like the US National...

A new security company known as Zerodium has come up with a 7-figure way to make a very loud splash as it enters the field. It’s got $1 million (about £651,000) in bug bounty money burning a hole in its pocket, and it’s looking to spend it on what’s thought to be the biggest bounty...

You’ve probably read all sorts of to-and-fro about Apple’s App Store this week. Until now, the App Store has been to the malware scene what the planet Earth was to Douglas Adams’s HHGttG: Mostly harmless. That changed a few days ago, when Palo Alto networks published a series of articles about malware that had shown...

Rose is a 31-year-old security analyst and hacker from San Francisco, a self-described “computer nerd” with “quirky attitudes” towards life, and an “unorthodox family.” She doesn’t like for people to know too much about her because her work makes her aware of how “under surveillance we all are,” but she also has a “flamboyant and...

The first operator to be convicted in the UK for illegally flying his drone out of visual contact, over a congested area and within 50 meters of buildings, has been fined £1800 (about $2,800). Nigel Wilson, a 42-year-old security guard from Nottingham, was also ordered to pay £600 in costs after pleading guilty to offenses under...

Facebook knows a lot about you. If you were honest when you first signed up, it knows your real name, age, gender, location and interests – as well as what you have done on-site ever since – valuable data indeed when it comes to delivering relevant advertisements to your browser. But ad companies want more,...

As you probably heard, Facebook recently announced that it is working on a “Dislike” button at last. Well, perhaps not exactly a Dislike button, or perhaps not only a Dislike button, but something beyond just good old “Like”, anyway. And “Dislike” was definitely one of the, errr, likely and well-liked possibilities in Mark Zuckerberg’s recent...

Ads are larger and harder to dismiss on mobile, they slow down page loading with JavaScript, that in turn leads to burned battery power, they waste the cellular data that many of us have to pay for on a metered basis – and they can be used to deliver malware, exploits and fraud. How does...

Bitcoin payments processor BitPay was spearphished late last year after a hacker gained access to an email account belonging to David Bailey, Editor-in-Chief of digital currency publication Bitcoin Magazine. Not once, not twice, but three times. It all began one day in December 2014 when BitPay’s chief financial officer, Bryan Krohn, received an email that appeared to have...

Apple’s week has been a bit of a curate’s egg. If you’re unfamiliar with that metaphor, it’s a Victorian joke in which a curate, a cleric on the bottom rung of the Church of England hierarchy, is invited to breakfast with the Bishop. When the Bishop apologises that the curate seems to have been served...