September 13, 2022

Serious Security: Browser-in-the-browser attacks – watch out for windows that aren’t!

Simple but super-sneaky - use a picture of a browser, and convince people it's real...

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April 23, 2021

Apple AirDrop has “significant privacy leak”, say German researchers

Researchers say they reported what they consider to be a privacy hole to Apple in 2019, but never heard back. They worked on a fix anyway.

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August 13, 2020

Tor and anonymous browsing – just how safe is it?

How to stay safe when you're using Tor, even if the network is littered with rogues.

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August 09, 2019

Parents, it’s time to delete Pet Chat from your child’s LeapPad

LeapFrog has done lots to fix the security of the LeapPad. Now all that's left is for parents to scrape Pet Chat off of older tablets.

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May 17, 2019

Google recalls Titan Bluetooth keys after finding security flaw

Google had egg on its face this week after it had to recall some of its Titan hardware security keys for being insecure.

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January 09, 2018

CoffeeMiner project lets you hack public Wi-Fi to mine cryptocoins

Remember how we keep telling you that HTTPS is about more than just privacy? Well, here's a timely reminder why...coffeshop coin mining!

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September 06, 2017

Lenovo settles lawsuits with 32 states over Superfish

Lenovo agrees to pay $3.5m for breaking users' security by installing Superfish

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August 09, 2016

Nigerian scammer infects himself with malware

The self-inflicted keylogger was helpfully uploading screenshots and keystroke logs to an open directory on a web server. D'OH!

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April 12, 2016

Badlock revealed – probably not as bad as you thought

Stand down from red alert! "Badlock", a security hole announced in the most publicly secret way in March 2016, has now been patched.

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