Sophos Naked Security

The hacking duo @fluoroacetate demonstrated zero-day exploits against phones from Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi at the recent Pwn2Own contest.

The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts.

It enacted a worst-case, "black start" scenario: swaths of the country's grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.

Don't cry for us, Argentina: Critics saw potential for government meddling without court order, among other issues.

Burying secret data in plain sight- is it a clever cybersecurity trick, or a way to attract the very attention you wanted to avoid?

This year's SophosLabs Threat Report is out. We talk targeted ransomware attacks, and in particular, SamSam.

Key personnel at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have suggested basing the next version of a core web protocol on Google technology.

The Cryptopay customer asked customer services for a new password. They refused, given that it was against the company privacy policy.

Still reeling from last week's Windows 10 Pro debacle, Microsoft dropped a fresh pile of “Oops!” onto Windows 10 Mobile users.

A brief outage on Monday diverted traffic to providers such as Google and Cloudflare via China - was it a blunder or a hack?

There's no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.

Drug and immigration cops in the US are buying surveillance cameras to hide in streetlights and traffic barrels.

Police say it's a felony, but a woman arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting says she doesn't even know how to remotely wipe.

A security researcher squoze 1,299,999 words into a single tweet, thanks to image metadata that Twitter doesn't remove.

O, that constant whirring noise? And the sky-high electricity bill? Why, it's those darn air conditioners and heaters!

Researchers have stumbled on another large botnet that’s been hijacking home routers while nobody was paying attention.

Facebook has removed 14 million pieces of content dubbed likely to come from terrorists, as determined by new machine learning technology

Microsoft Windows 10 users were livid late last week after Microsoft mistakenly told them that their licenses were invalid.

From the 'Martinelli' WhatsApp hoax to Facebook wanting to give your name to the weirdo next to you, and everything in between. Catch up with this and everything we wrote in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time!

They expect to cuff hundreds of criminals who used the pricey phones, which were sold with the crypto app preinstalled.