Hackers have released a series of images sent via the messaging service Snapchat and they have threatened to release more. Snapchat blame the use of 3rd party apps for the leak.
Troels Oerting, head of Europol’s Cybercrime Centre, claims that there are only a handful of cybercrime-lords producing “malware at a speed that we have difficulties catching up with”.
How do we see hackers? Do we see them as pajama clad, overweight, unshaven nerds sitting in their mother’s basement? Or as highly organised and highly motivated groups or gangs?
Another privacy debate has sprung up. This one involves Twitter and the US government, specifically the FBI and the Department of Justice. Should other technology firms be fighting this fight?
Almost 200,000 people leave their mobile phones in the back of London’s fleet of 25,000 black cabs. Mark James, security specialist at ESET, looks at the potential implications and security pitfalls.
CryptoWall appears to have had an update to version 2. What is CryptoWall? How does Version 2.0 differ from Version 1.0?