Security

People shouldn't hold back on sending racy photos of themselves online for fear the images might be scooped up by government spies, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has said.

Snowden appeared for a sit-down interview Sunday night on HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." The host traveled to Russia to do the interview in person.

To make the issue hit home for his TV audience, Oliver asked Snowden which government programs might allow spies to access people's "d**k pics." Many of the programs would, Snowden said, but that shouldn't cause people to hold back.

Former U.S. cyber-security coordinator says enterprise executives must assume that malicious hackers have already broken into their corporate networks.

The big question about enterprise security isn't how to keep cyber-criminals out of your network; the big question is how to limit the damage.

L33tdawg: On an unrelated note, Runa A. Sandvik who's involved with the TrueCrypt audit project will be presenting the closing keynote 'Bringing Internet Security to Where the Wild Things Are' at HITBSecConf2015 - Amsterdam the end of May in Amsterdam.

Snapchat suffered a nasty surprise back in October when a third-party app that archived images and videos posted to the ephemeral messaging app suffered a security breach that allowed hackers to get their hands on masses of private Snapchat content.

It was a big embarrassment for the startup, even though its own servers were not hit in the attack. Since then, it’s been working on ways to make it more difficult for third-party apps to access its content, which include asking Apple and Google to remove offending software from their app stores.

If there were a 911 line for corporate victims of hackers, the one answering it might be Kevin Mandia.

When computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment were brought down in what was arguably the most high-profile hacking attack in a decade, Sony called in Mandia and his team of investigators from FireEye, the Milpitas, Calif.-based computer security firm.

The events at Sony and the ways that other companies can avoid its fate will be among the topics we plan to discuss with Mandia onstage on April 21 at our inaugural Code/Enterprise Series event in San Francisco.

Android has been known to be the mobile malware industry's operating system of choice. Now Google has published a report claiming infection rates on Android devices are much lower than one may think.

While the overwhelming majority of mobile malware is written for Google-powered gadgets, the report claims that in 2014 less than 1 per cent of a billion Android devices in use had a malware infection, and that that figure dropped to 0.15 per cent if people only used apps from Google's Play Store.

The evil twin is not just a schlocky plot device for TV crime shows and absurd soap operas, it’s also a threat to your company’s data.

It’s relatively easy for a criminal to set up an evil twin rogue wireless access point that mimics one that your users and visitors connect to, whether on your premises or in a public place, with the intention of stealing usernames and passwords.

This, apparently, is not an April Fool's joke. This morning, President Obama signed an executive order [pdf] allowing the White House to issue sanctions on those "engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities." I'm sure the Chinese state hackers behind the Github DDoS are shaking in their boots.

When security researchers are silenced by governments or private companies, it’s often to the detriment of technology users of all ilks. Ignorance is certainly not bliss when it comes to digital vulnerabilities. It leaves systems open to attack and, consequently, people’s data open to theft.

A nonprofit group developing tools to get around Chinese online censorship says the Chinese government is behind a recent attack that sent a flood of traffic to its site and services. China is effectively using the national firewall in place to censor the Internet for Chinese residents to weaponize the browsers of millions of global Internet users, according to GreatFire.