We capture them with our phones and many of you may have them stored on your computers, by the hundreds or even thousands. What’s more, we share them on social network sites for our friends to see, just as we love to see their images. Yes, we are talking about images in JPEG format. JPEG […]

Watch this week’s “60 Second Security” – the one-minute news roundup video with attitude! Source: Sophos

We’ve had BEAST, Lucky Thirteen, BREACH, BEAST, POODLE, Heartbleed and FREAK…now, it’s LOGJAM. Paul Ducklin explains, and tells you what you can do about it. Source: Sophos

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said it had been hit with a data breach that compromised the personal information on approximately 1.1 million customers. There are indications that the same attack methods may have been used in this intrusion as with breaches at Anthem and Premera, incidents that collectively involved data on more than 90 million Americans. […]

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that sensitive data apparently stolen from hundreds of thousands of customers mobile spyware maker mSpy had been posted online. mSpy has since been quoted twice by other publications denying a breach of its systems. Meanwhile, this blog has since contacted multiple people whose data was published to the deep Web, […]

A security firm made headlines earlier this month when it boasted it had thwarted plans by organized Russian cyber criminals to launch an attack against multiple US-based banks. But a closer look at the details behind that report suggests the actors in question were relatively unsophisticated Nigerian phishers who’d simply registered a bunch of new fake bank […]