 | "BadBIOS" is an unfolding story about a virus that is claimed to have some remarkable characteristics - such as jumping airgaps, spreading using sound waves, and taking over your firmware. How does it work? What do we know? Is it real or a hoax? Paul Ducklin takes a look... Read more.. |
 | Facebook to silent track users' cursor movements to see which ads we like best It's easier than tracking our eyeballs, and as it turns out, our mouse movements and hovers correlate quite well to where our gazes wander. That, of course, is a tasty way to amass a few more oceans' worth of data about Facebook users and how much time we look at those nice, revenue-producing ads. Read more.. |
 | Lavabit and Silent Circle form "Dark Mail Alliance" to thwart email surveillance The goal is to ditch the current email protocol SMTP and to create an alternative, private, next-generation, end-to-end encrypted protocol that will hopefully give the world a fighting chance to fight spying. Read more.. |
 | Lessons to learn from the MongoHQ database breach Cloud-based database services company MongoHQ is in "we'd better fix things" mode this week, following a network intrusion that proves the old adage that once you've been breached, all security bets are off. Read more.. |
 | How to protect your critical infrastructure It’s easy to overlook the security of critical IT infrastructure - the low level things that you rely on and that "just work", that nobody wants to touch and that probably haven't been patched for years. Here are some things to consider when keeping your critical infrastructure secure. Read more.. |
 | Contactless payments - researcher intercepts card data from a metre away A University of Surrey researcher created a cheap receiver from off-the-shelf electronics and was able to eavesdrop on contactless card payments at distances of 20-90 centimetres - collecting credit card numbers, expiry dates, and cardholder names. This despite the fact that one of the main... Read more.. |
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