Is your smartphone broadcasting your movements when you shop?

If you walk around carrying a smartphone with WiFi enabled then you are broadcasting your own unique radio beacon. MAC address tracking, also known as Mobile Location Analytics (MLA), is of serious interest to companies trying to sell you things. Read more..

Anatomy of an exploit - inside the CVE-2013-3893 Internet Explorer zero-day - Part 2 Part Two of our examination of an IE exploit. This is a great read if you want to get a feeling for how cybercrooks think. (Don't worry if you aren't technical: it's clear and jargon-free.) Read more..

Twitter troll arrested for allegedly threatening US baseball team, execs and even their home field The New York Mets fan reportedly is being held in connection with tweeted threats that include sneaking into the clubhouse and putting bombs in everyone's cleats. If this is the work of a fan, who needs enemies? Read more..

Wikipedia sockpuppet saga threatens users' trust of the service PR firms willing to make a buck by gaming Wikipedia's editing processes are starting to threaten users' trust of the service, to the extent that alarmed watchers are predicting that, in a few years, a significant portion of Wikipedia's content could well be spam. Read more..