Move over, Naked Security’s video on how to Pick a Proper Password! Step aside, XKCD’s harder-than-you-think Correct­Horse­Something­Something. There’s a new sort of password in town: the iambic tetrameter. In a word, poetry. To explain: an iambus is a rhythmic unit in verse that consists of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed one. Like this:...

It’s Week 4 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), and this week’s #CyberAware theme is Your Evolving Digital Life. As the CSAM organisers put it, the idea is to highlight: The "smart world" we live in and the importance of educating all citizens on cybersecurity as more and more of the devices we use – from...

Apple iOS 9 is out. As usual when the left-most number changes, as here from version 8 to version 9, the download is bigger than your typical point release. For example, when we recently updated to 8.4.1, the download was about 50MB; this time, the over-the-air (OTA) update we were offered was 1.2GB. → Because...

The personal details of thousands of Lloyds Bank account holders have gone missing following the suspected theft of a data storage box. The breach affects any customers who made a claim under a Royal Sun Alliance (RSA) emergency home cover policy attached to their £25 a month Lloyds Premier bank account between 2006 and 2012. RSA said...

– To encrypt, or not to encrypt? – Encryption is a hot topic in security circles these days. There are lots of different viewpoints about whether to encrypt or not. All of us here on Naked Security will tell you that you can’t have enough encryption. Wisely used, encryption gives you a valuable extra layer...

Back in 2012, a man in the South of England was apparently renovating his chimney when he came across the skeleton of a pigeon. One leg bone had a capsule attached, which turned out to contain what looked very much like a coded message dating back to World War 2. The British made extensive use...