Security

WarKitteh & DOsDog Hit The Streets

WarKitteh & DOsDog Hit The Streets

An engineer has told a hacking conference how he turned a cat and a dog into tech weapons: the former…

10 years ago

Scam Warning: Facebook Color Change

Facebook messages claiming to give you the chance to change the color of the site are, perhaps unsurprisingly, a phishing…

10 years ago

Tor Network May Have Been Compromised

The Tor Project says an attack on the network earlier this year may have left user identities exposed for up…

10 years ago

Google Hires Squad To Hunt Zero Day Flaws

Google is hiring full-time staff to try to hunt down zero-day vulnerabilities across all systems. It's going to publish the…

10 years ago

Journalist Publishes Own Twitter Password; Pays Price

A Wall Street Journal  journalist has published his Twitter password to prove the value of two-factor authentication. Christopher Mims remains unhacked,…

10 years ago

iPhone Killswitch Cuts Crime, NY Legal Chief Claims

Figures from the New York Attorney General show a sharp fall in iPhone thefts correlating with Apple introducing a "kill…

10 years ago

Google Working on Email Encryption Plugin

Google plans to release a Chrome plugin to make it easier to send and receive encrypted emails. It's also criticized…

10 years ago

Find My iPhone Turned Into Ransom Tool

Several iPhone users say their phones have been hijacked by extortionists who've managed to 'hack' the Find My iPhone security…

10 years ago

Microsoft To Fix XP Bug, But Just This One Time, Honest

Microsoft has changed its mind and decided it will issue a fix for a serious Internet Explorer bug for Windows…

10 years ago

Boeing Produces Self-Destructing Smartphone

Boeing is to produce a smartphone that (from a software perspective at least) self-destructs if somebody tries to tamper with…

10 years ago