 | Welcome to another episode of Techknow, the podcast in which Sophos experts debate, explore and explain the often baffling world of computer security. In "The End of XP", Duck and Chet investigate the what, the why and the how of dealing with the impending end of support for Windows XP in 2014. Read more.. |
 | DOJ: 'Locking its front gate' doesn't let Lavabit off the hook for search warrants You can't get out of cooperating with government-ordered electronic surveillance by shutting down, any more than a business can stop police from executing a search warrant by locking its front gate, the US government tutted at former encrypted-email provider Lavabit. Read more.. |
 | Pot-smoking 419ers busted in hotel room crime hub Hotel internet connections make it harder to track people down, and after police were called to investigate the smell of marijuana emanating from a South African hotel room, they discovered an advanced Nigerian letter scam crime hub. Read more.. |
 | Microsoft leads the way, setting new cryptographic defaults Microsoft is upping its game with regards to cryptographic standards. By discontinuing support for the older, weak RC4 cipher and putting Certificate Authorities on note to migrate to SHA-2, it seems to be leading the way to be ready for the future, rather than reacting. Read more.. |
 | Loyaltybuild attack: 500,000 people may have had credit card details stolen Thousands of people across Europe and, more specifically, in Ireland have had their credit card and personal details stolen after a company which runs reward schemes was hacked. Read more.. |
 | Privacy's gone when posting child abuse images to a P2P network, US judge rules A US court has turned the tables on child predators who use technology to share images of the abuse, ruling that investigators' use of an automated search tool to ferret out known child porn images was not a violation of the defendants' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search. Read more.. |
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