Security

How To Steal $57,000 From Your Neighbors Using Facebook (Like This Asshole)

If Facebook fraudster Iain Wood has taught us anything, it’s to distrust thy neighbor. Because sometimes thy neighbor stalks you on Facebook, steals your mail, then uses your personal information to rob you. Over the span of two years, Wood stole a total of $57,000 from his neighbors in Newcastle, England to feed his nasty…

Social Media Alyssa Bereznak

Judge Rules That Students Can Slut It Up on Myspace. Legally.

If a student chooses to represent his/herself as a whorebag, that’s no business of their school, a federal judge has decided. This follows two teenage girls who posted slutty photos on MySpace and were dealt with aggressively by their school. The two students posted the pictures back in 2009, in case you were curious about…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

You Can Jam Sensitive FBI Conversations with This Toy Pager

A two-year study at the University of Pennsylvania showed the way federal law enforcement agencies communicate is decidedly not secure. How not secure? You can jam them with this ridiculous pink pager. It’s like The Wire, only the exact opposite. The group was able to spy on “every Federal law enforcement agency in the Department…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Why That Fancy Password Isn’t Nearly as Safe as You Thought

Nice password you got there! Super complicated, I love it. You know who else loves it? Computers! Because by carefully crafted a string of alphanumerical gibberish that you need tattooed on your palm to remember, you’ve made a password much easier to crack than, say, four simple unrelated words. But hey, at least it feels…

Books & Comics Brian Barrett

7 Casino Technologies They Don’t Want You to Know About

Movies make casino cheaters seem like modern-day Robin Hoods, but don’t be fooled. Regulatory agencies toss around jail sentences faster than mob goons used to break knees. But casinos can’t prosecute what they can’t catch; everything starts with detection. Casinos are better than ever at stopping theft—employing a complex web of advanced technology to nab…

Privacy & Security Brad Chacos - MaximumTech

10-Year-Old Ladyhacker Identifies Android and Apple Gaming Security Bug

Working under the name of CyFi, our 10-year-old friend showed off her discovery at the DefCon hacking conference, where she told of how boredom at the slow-moving phone games lead her to hacking, and identifying the security hole. After growing bored of the farming games she’d been playing on her phone, she found that advancing…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

DefCon Dings Reveal Google Product Security Risks

Patents aren’t the only malady affecting Android this weekend—a newly discovered “design flaw” could potentially allow malicious hackers to create pop-ups or other phishing schemes right on your device. https://gizmodo.com/brash-android-email-duo-could-prove-very-costly-for-goo-5828457 As reported by CNET from the DefCon conference, the Android flaw was revealed by researchers Sean Schulte, SSL developer at Trustwave, and Nicholas Percoco, senior…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Virginia Tech Emergency Alert System Has Eight Ways of Finding You

After the 2007 massacre in which Seung Hui-Cho killed 33 people, Virginia Tech has gone to great lengths to improve its campus safety. The University’s latest system is designed to alert students and faculty whether they’re on campus or online. In the event of a real emergency, the VT Alert system sends out notifications via…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola

Why Hackers Write Computer Viruses

Why do hackers hack? Why create a worm that sends out an email to everyone in your contact list, or a Trojan that deletes your term papers? Is it mischief, malice, money, or something else entirely? This is the question that was on my mind when I met with Mikko Hypponen, a legendary computer security…

Privacy & Security Mat Honan

Microsoft Locks Down Their Location Tracking Database

After Microsoft’s database of publicly-accessible Wi-Fi locations was exposed, they’ve heeded the criticisms and decided to make the information a bit less accessible. According to Cnet’s Declan McCullagh, Microsoft tweaked the Live.com location services API so that it no longer allows someone to enter in a MAC address and receive a precise geographical location. Furthermore,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Newest Android Trojan Records All Your Calls

Security researchers have identified a new Android bug in the wild—this one gunning after your phone calls, NetworkWorld reports. The good news? The recordings seem to just sit on your SD card after installing the malicious app. [NetworkWorld]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Facebook-Skype Security Exploit Can Compromise Your System (Updated)

Remember how Facebook with Skype integration was going to be “Something Awesome“? Well, it’s something alright—a wide-open back door to your computer. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-skype-video-chat-something-awesome-upda-5818418 The vulnerability surfaced after David Vieira-Kurz posted the proof of concept video above to the Secalert website. Apparently, he had “found a few security issues which makes it possible to hijack a…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola

Intel Wants Your Phone to Play Nice With Your Car Alarm

The LoJacks and Clubs of the world would like you to think they have you covered should someone make off with your vehicle. But more security never hurts. So Intel is developing an app that’ll let you know if your car’s in trouble. Intel’s approach is to connect your smartphone to your car’s security system.…

Privacy & Security Kwame Opam

Facebook Will Pay You to Break Its Website

Starting today, Facebook will pay $500+ to anyone who exposes a vulnerability that could compromise user data. To qualify, you must be the first to report it and give them time to fix it before going public. [Facebook via TheNextWeb]

Social Media Michael Zhao

Who’s Spying on You Through Your Browser?

Wall Street Journal has amassed a sizeable infographic containing all the ways top websites track your data. While nearly all websites send your data to third-party trackers, some are worse than others. Luckily the main offenders are websites that suck. The worst website of them all is Dictionary.com, who send your browsing data to 234…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

Anyone Can Access Microsoft’s Massive Location Database and See Where Your Laptop and Smartphone Have Been

Microsoft has been going around and building a database of publicly broadcast MAC addresses (along with their corresponding street address) for location services purposes. That might include those of your phones and laptops. Problem is, Microsoft didn’t secure the database. According to a report from Cnet’s Declan McCullagh, Microsoft is gathering data from Windows 7…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Visidon AppLock for Android: Pretend You Work for the CIA and Unlock Apps with Your Face

I’ve always wanted a job that gave me a super high security clearance that required facial scans to make sure it’s me. Sadly, I’ll probably never be that important. INSTEAD, I’ll make myself feel important by programming my phone to unlock by scanning my freaking face. What’s it do? It’s a security app meant to…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Facial Recognition: It’s Not Creepy, So Get Over It

Facial recognition, like targeted advertising before it, is the internet’s newest bogeyman. Many have an instant aversion to their faces being scanned by a computer. You shouldn’t. With the right caveats, the tech’s like robot vacuums: helpful, not scary. It’s not so surprising that personal facial recognition has created a face-jerk reaction among privacy advocates.…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Facebook Makes It Easier to Opt Out of Facial Recognition

Facebook’s facial recognition system was so intrusive, the EU felt it necessary to investigate it for privacy violations. While Facebook has always allowed you to turn it off, it’s always been a bit fiddly—until now. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-latest-privacy-settings-shadiness-invades-you-5809647

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

We aren’t the only ones who want to see an end to passwords. So does the government. Barack Obama wants to kill your password. https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-abandon-passwords-5812685 In fact, he’s set up a special office just to make that happen. We talked to Jeremy Grant, who runs the program. Here’s what he said. Gizmodo: There have been…

Privacy & Security Mat Honan

How To Steal $57,000 From Your Neighbors Using Facebook (Like This Asshole)

Judge Rules That Students Can Slut It Up on Myspace. Legally.

You Can Jam Sensitive FBI Conversations with This Toy Pager

Why That Fancy Password Isn’t Nearly as Safe as You Thought

7 Casino Technologies They Don’t Want You to Know About

10-Year-Old Ladyhacker Identifies Android and Apple Gaming Security Bug

DefCon Dings Reveal Google Product Security Risks

Virginia Tech Emergency Alert System Has Eight Ways of Finding You

Why Hackers Write Computer Viruses

Microsoft Locks Down Their Location Tracking Database

Newest Android Trojan Records All Your Calls

Facebook-Skype Security Exploit Can Compromise Your System (Updated)

Intel Wants Your Phone to Play Nice With Your Car Alarm

Facebook Will Pay You to Break Its Website

Who’s Spying on You Through Your Browser?

Anyone Can Access Microsoft’s Massive Location Database and See Where Your Laptop and Smartphone Have Been

Visidon AppLock for Android: Pretend You Work for the CIA and Unlock Apps with Your Face

Facial Recognition: It’s Not Creepy, So Get Over It

Facebook Makes It Easier to Opt Out of Facial Recognition

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

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