Sophos Naked Security

From WhatsApps that aren't meant for you to the highly promising USB-C authentication, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

Here's a fascinating history of cryptography that has plenty to teach you - and you don't need a degree in mathematics to follow along!

A cybercrook is offering a giant stash of stolen emails and passwords, dubbed Collection #1 - allegedly the first of several such dumps

Android apps that want access to your call and SMS data now have to pass muster with Google's team of reviewers.

...or that they can edit the (often inaccurate) pigeon-holes Facebook likes to put us in, a study found.

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!

The platform can't keep us from driving while blindfolded, but at least it can remove videos that glorify our more brainless moments.

In a case that could be straight out of a legal TV drama, a computing font has cost a couple two houses in a Canadian bankruptcy case.

She sent her bank account details three times, she said. Unfortunately, they wound up in crooks' hands, and her money wound up in their pockets.

A researcher has discovered an exposed database containing gigabytes of call logs, SMS data, and internal system credentials belonging to US Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo.com.

They're charged with phishing and inflicting malware to get into the EDGAR filing system, stealing thousands of filings, and selling access.

Abby Fuller got a shock when she logged into WhatsApp using a new telephone number. She found someone else’s messages waiting for her.

Of the six advisories Intel released last week, the most interesting is a flaw discovered in the company’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

Credit card thieves are laundering money by purchasing the in-game currency V-Bucks, then selling it back at a discount to players.

The landmark decision asserts the same legal protection for biometrics that we're given for passcodes.

Microsoft has vexed its Windows 7 users with a misbehaving update that caused licensing and networking errors.

In an interesting move for villainy, a thief who stole over $1 million from the Ethereum Classic blockchain has given some of it back.

Facebook's relying on demotion instead of removal, so users will still be able to share content, even if Full Fact rates it inaccurate.

Researchers say people over 65 are seven times more likely to share fake news than 18 to 29-year-olds.

We asked a number of people working in different roles at Sophos how they made their way into the industry.