Security

Your Android Phone’s Lockscreen Is No Match For a Freezer

Make no mistakes about it, your lockscreen is good at keeping honest people honest, but a truly dedicated thief is bound to find his way around it. One of the wilder ways to do so has recently been demonstrated by researchers who cracked through a Galaxy Nexus’s security by throwing it in a freezer. The…

Tech News Eric Limer

iOS 6.1 Security Risk: Anyone Can Bypass Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

So, iOS 6.1 hasn’t been Apple’s finest hour. So far it’s been plagued with connection issues, battery woes, and now it’s sadly insecure, too. You can bypass any lockcode on an iPhone using this straightforward sequence of button presses. The instructions are pretty simple. First you have to pretend to turn the phone off, then…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - Gizmodo UK

Googlers Reported More Than Half of the Vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Latest Patch

Microsoft just released a giant “Patch Tuesday” bulletin for the month. Weird thing about this update? More than half of the bugs found in Microsoft products were reported by none other than Google engineers. It’s not unusual for Googlers to uncover security flaws in Word, Office, Internet Explorer, and so forth. Mountain View’s finest found…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Jawbone User Accounts Compromised in Hack

If you use a Jambox, now might be a real good time to change your MyTalk password: Jawbone’s servers have been hacked, and a swathe of users have had their details swiped. Jawbone’s MyTalk service lets users update and personalize speakers and headsets. Apparently hackers stole names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords from the company’s…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

President Obama Just Signed a Cybersecurity Executive Order

Before President Barack Obama gave his State of the Union and shouted out 3D printing, he signed a new cybersecurity executive order with the goal of preventing cyber attacks by allowing companies and the government to share information they have on cyber threats. If that sounds a lot like CISPA, it kind of is, but…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

A Security Company Is Neutering Hundreds of iPads So The Government Can Use Them

Traditionally, Blackberry has been the choice of the majorly security conscious, but the times are changing. iOS has been shaping up to be pretty secure, and has even coaxed some US government agencies to jump ship. Now a security firm in Virgina is “neutering” iPads so G men can use those too. The report comes…

Privacy & Security Eric Limer

This Woman Was Fined For Decorating Her Electronic Security Bracelet

When Rebecca Gallanagh was fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet after being arrested, she thought it was boring—so she decorated it using fake diamonds. Sadly, that didn’t play very well with the authorities. In fact, she was fined $220 by Secro, the security company who fitted the bracelet, for “compromising the integrity” of the device.…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Rupert Murdoch Admits the WSJ Is Still Being Hacked

If you thought the Wall Street Journal only announced that it had been infiltrated by Chinese hackers once the debacle was over—think again. Rupert Murdoch has tweeted that the newspaper is still coming under sustained attack. While Murdoch doesn’t offer any substantive evidence, it’s clear that this is no small problem: we know that the…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Add the Department of Energy to the List of Agencies Nailed by Hackers

Reuters reports that the US Department of Energy was hacked last month and a trove of employee information was lost to the cyber intruders. The hack was revealed in a letter obtained by Reuters, which was sent to employees on Friday. The DOE claims no confidential information was lost in the attack. As Reuters points…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Twitter Is Reportedly Adding Two-Factor Login (Updated)

Twitter is supposedly planning to make logins more secure by adding a two-factor authentication system. Apparently it would work similar to the 2FA system you use on Gmail. To get into your account, you’d type in both your password and a short numerical code that’s sent to your phone. It seems like a logical thing…

Privacy & Security Leslie Horn

Twitter Has Been Hacked: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Compromised

Twitter has been hacked. If you have a Twitter account (and who doesn’t these days), it’s probably a good idea to make sure everything is in order and/or reset your password with something strong. Twitter says that approximately 250,000 users may have been affected by the hack, with the hackers gaining access to usernames, email…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Ticketmaster Is Dumping Awful Captchas

Captcha is the worst, and Tickmaster’s particular strain of the virus is especially, well, impossible. It’s changing that, though, to a system that will hopefully be more friendly to actual people trying to use it. Captcha is kind of necessary. It’s to keep bots out, but it also keeps out normal human beings who can’t…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Tons and Tons of Security Cameras Are Wide Open to Hackers

Apparently security cameras are even less secure than we thought. Eighteen popular brands of cameras have been found to have serious flaws in their own security, leaving at least 58,000 unsecured, open-to-basically-anyone security cams out there. Security firm Rapid7 discovered how the widespread flaw is after reading a blog post by someLuser, detailing the failings…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Hate Keys? You’ll Never Have to Lock This Invisible Secret Door

If you’re prone to losing your keys and finding yourself locked out of the house when you get home, you’ll want to pay attention to this brilliant home mod by YouTuber oggfaba. Using hardware and lumber you can easily find at any home improvement megalopolis, they created a near invisible secret door that perfectly blends…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski

I can’t stop watching these private feeds from insecure webcams

Over a year ago, computer security experts revealed that a popular webcam manufactured by TRENDnet wasn’t exactly secure. Because these cams are controlled via the web, it’s relatively easy to track down their IP addresses and peek through them. Though TRENDnet released a patch that was supposed to fix the problem, many consumers didn’t download…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How to Easily Capture Images In SnapChat Without the Other Person Noticing

We knew that SnapChat security sucked, but not this much: there is a method to easily capture images sent through SnapChap with no technical knowhow whatsoever. Just a couple clicks and, boom, that nudie pic is yours to keep forever without the other person knowing about it. Before there was a method that required multiple…

Privacy & Security Jesus Diaz

This Interactive Map Lets You Spy on Insecure Webcam Feeds

This new web app mashes together insecure feeds from Trendnet home security cameras with Google Maps to let you spy on people all over the world. It’s horrible, dreadful, disgusting—and utterly compelling. There is no getting around the fact that you are taking a peek into some very, very personal environments here—and if you head…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

What the FBI Doesn’t Want You To Know About Its “Secret” Surveillance Techniques

The FBI had to rewrite the book on its domestic surveillance activities in the wake of last January’s landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones. In Jones, a unanimous court held that federal agents must get a warrant to attach a GPS device to a car to track a suspect for long periods…

Privacy & Security Parker Higgins and Trevor Timm - EFF

Kid Got Expelled from College for Reporting a Security Problem to School Officials

No good deed, huh. A student from Dawson College in Montreal has been expelled for his involvement in the uncovering of a potentially horrible flaw in his school’s online directories. Sounds dumb, right? Even worse: Everyone more or less agrees he meant no harm. Here’s what happened: Ahmed Al-Khabaz, a Computer Science student at Dawson,…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Do You Use Encryption?

The launch of Mega is putting a big emphasis on encryption, but it’s not like that kind of security is anything new. It’s just a pain sometimes. Do you ever go out of your way to encrypt your files? Do you think it’s worth the effort? The risk of losing that password and being screwed?…

Privacy & Security Eric Limer

Your Android Phone’s Lockscreen Is No Match For a Freezer

iOS 6.1 Security Risk: Anyone Can Bypass Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

Googlers Reported More Than Half of the Vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Latest Patch

Jawbone User Accounts Compromised in Hack

President Obama Just Signed a Cybersecurity Executive Order

A Security Company Is Neutering Hundreds of iPads So The Government Can Use Them

This Woman Was Fined For Decorating Her Electronic Security Bracelet

Rupert Murdoch Admits the WSJ Is Still Being Hacked

Add the Department of Energy to the List of Agencies Nailed by Hackers

Twitter Is Reportedly Adding Two-Factor Login (Updated)

Twitter Has Been Hacked: 250,000 Twitter Accounts Compromised

Ticketmaster Is Dumping Awful Captchas

Tons and Tons of Security Cameras Are Wide Open to Hackers

Hate Keys? You’ll Never Have to Lock This Invisible Secret Door

I can’t stop watching these private feeds from insecure webcams

How to Easily Capture Images In SnapChat Without the Other Person Noticing

This Interactive Map Lets You Spy on Insecure Webcam Feeds

What the FBI Doesn’t Want You To Know About Its “Secret” Surveillance Techniques

Kid Got Expelled from College for Reporting a Security Problem to School Officials

Do You Use Encryption?

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