The internet flames scorched Peeple, and now its online presence has at least partially gone up in smoke. For now, anyway. As of Tuesday morning, it was Sayonara to the app’s Twitter account, hasta luego to its Facebook account, and site-not-found for its website. But don’t get your hopes up: this beast isn’t dead yet....

Six years ago, Schuler Benson and Celeste Zendler (now Celeste Benson) had no mutual friends, lived in two different states, had zilch shared Facebook interests, and had never met. But one day, Facebook glitched, and the end result is that the two are now hitched. It’s the “fairy-tale for Millennials,” Schuler Benson says: one random...

Are you in London this week and planning on attending IP EXPO Europe at ExCel on Wednesday or Thursday? It’s the first year that Sophos is at the show and we’re celebrating by giving away free socks (obviously), laptop stickers and webcam covers! Our experts James Burchell and Greg Iddon will also be holding a...

Wireless carrier T-Mobile is warning 15 million customers whose personal information was compromised in a data breach at credit reporting company Experian. In a bizarre twist of irony, those customers are currently being offered two years of free credit monitoring from ProtectMyID.com – a service owned and operated by Experian. The data breach, announced on Thursday, 1 October,...

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...