Naked Security Aren’t SMSes dead? Aren’t they just plain old text anyway? Surely they’re of no interest to cybercriminals any more? Well, SMSes aren’t dead at all – they’re still widely used because of their …
iPhone 12 scam pretends to be Apple “chatbot” – don’t fall for it! Read More »
Naked Security An article published on the open-to-allcomers blogging site Medium earlier this week has made for some scary headlines. Written as an independent research piece by an author going only by nusenu, the story …
Tor and anonymous browsing – just how safe is it? Read More »
Naked Security The US Department of Justice just issued a press release entitled simply, “Three Individuals Charged for Alleged Roles in Twitter Hack.” In some ways, the Twitter hack referred to, which happened just two …
Naked Security If you run a website or a blog, you probably use a cloud provider or a dedicated hosting company to manage your server and deliver the content to your readers, viewers and listeners. …
Beware “secure DNS” scam targeting website owners and bloggers Read More »
Naked Security We don’t know whether lockdown has anything to do with it, but how time flies! We couldn’t believe it either – it’s four weeks since Firefox’s last regular security update. If you want …
Firefox fixes cryptographic data leakage in latest security update Read More »
Naked Security Amtrak, the national rail service for the US, has suffered a data breach that may have exposed some customers’ logins and other personally identifiable information (PII), the service has disclosed. Full article
Naked Security It’s happened again! A weird combination of Unicode characters that make up a nonsense word can crash your iPhone, apparently by confusing the iOS operating system when it tries to figure out how …
iPhone “word of death” could crash your phone – what you need to know Read More »
Naked Security Mobile app developers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry just published a blog article entitled “TikTok vulnerability enables hackers to show users fake videos“. As far as we can see, they’re right. (We …
TikTok users beware: Hackers could swap your videos with their own Read More »
Naked Security A researcher has stumbled on a big security flaw affecting OpenWrt, an open source operating system used by millions of home and small business routers and embedded devices. OpenWrt has become a popular …
Patch now! Critical flaw found in OpenWrt router software Read More »
Naked Security Today is, wait for it, drum roll, please… …World Backup Day. You knew that already, didn’t you? So you’re way ahead of us here, with your backups neatly done and safely stored away. …
5 tips for keeping your data safe this World Backup Day Read More »