Surfing the internet late at night, ex-Google Display Specialist and Account Strategist Sanmay Ved discovered a strange thing – a premium domain name going for just $12. And by premium I don’t mean some new, previously unregistered domain with a catchy name, but, rather, the mother of all domains: Google.com. At around 1:20 AM on...

I don’t actually know Julia Cordray. We’ve never hung out, and she never hired me to write for her. Nor have I ever babysat her kids – Julia, do you even have kids? – and I’m pretty sure she’s never fed my cats while I’m on vacation. I’m going to rate her anyway. I’m giving...

Thanks to security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, we already know that late-model cars are vulnerable to cyberattacks that can range from the annoying – say, an uncontrollably blasting horn – to the potentially lethal: slamming on a Prius’s brakes at high speeds, killing power steering with commands sent from a laptop, spoofing GPS,...

You’ve read the stories; the lurid tales of homes laid bare by unsecured baby monitors, smart TVs and unintentional backdoors; the kids with apps that lied; the social media scams; the crummy passwords… You saw them and you knew that somebody had to do something. You did something. You joined the legion of the unsung...

If you’re in the USA, it’s officially National Cyber Security Awareness Month, starting today, October 1, 2015. Here on Naked Security, we’ll refer to it more loosely just as CSAM, in the hope that Naked Security readers all over the world will join in. Of course, CSAM isn’t an invitation to take cybersecurity more seriously...

Given that I’m a sucker for online quizzes, I’m aware of the fact that when I’m angry, the villain I most resemble is Voldemort. I also know that if an artist were to promise me a novelty passport that features my machine-drawn portrait, replete with my name and an official-looking red stamp just like a...

Windows 7 users were thrown into a panic overnight by what we can only think to describe as a harmlessly incorrect genuine botched fake update. Help forums filled up with rumours of a hack at Microsoft, thanks to an update notification looking something like this: gYxseNjwafVPfgsoHnzLblmm...YMEILGNIPwNOgEazuBVJcyVjBRL Download size: 4.3 MB You may need to restart...

Passwords? On Post-its? How retro! How circa Prince Williams! You’d think we’d all know better, particularly after such memorable incidents as when passwords were left on sticky notes glued in the background during a TV interview – an interview concerning a cyber-attack, of course – broadcast live on the French TV channel TV5 Monde this...

A 22-year-old Russian man received a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence this week for conspiracy to commit computer fraud, ending a long legal battle spanning two years and three countries. The Russian national, Dimitry Belorossov, infected 7000 computers with the notorious Citadel banking malware, which he used to steal sensitive information including online bank account credentials and passwords from...