We come across a lot of spams, scams and phishing attempts here at Naked Security. Some come to our “send us a comment” email address, because it’s widely publicised. Some come to our personal addresses, especially those of us who have had the same email for many years. And many – the most interesting! – are reported...

Nothing like the padlock icon showing in your browser window to put your mind at ease, eh? After all, that lock signifies that the site has a Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate (TLS being the successor to Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL; it’s also referred to as SSL/TLS). The certificate authorities (CAs) that give out...

We’ve written several reports over the past year about a malware toolkit that uses Microsoft Word as its delivery vehicle. The idea is to package malware inside a Word document in such a way that the file looks innocent, with no macros (Word program code), no embedded programs, or other content that might make a...

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...