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France threatens draconian internet piracy law
Sacre bleu! According to the Financial Times, authorities in France are set to introduce rules which could mean people are accused of internet piracy, and thrown off the internet, without their guilt...
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New proposals to fight UK internet piracy are ridiculous
According to media reports, the UK government will propose new laws today to disconnect computer users from the internet who are suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted music and movies....
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Google controversially forces users to opt-out of Wi-Fi snooping
If you can figure out how to rename your router SSID to include "_nomap," Google is going to skip your wireless access point in its location-gobbling location services. Once again, a company that...
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Most Wi-Fi routers susceptible to hacking through security feature
Researchers have published a paper showing how a feature implemented in modern Wi-Fi routers intended to make securing them easier, in fact makes them insecure by default.
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64% of people think cloud storage is risky, but 45% still go right ahead and...
Sophos polled people at their InfoSec Europe booth last week to find out their views on security in the workplace. Here's what they found.
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Google coder behind Street View data breach named
The New York Times claims to have uncovered the identity of the Google software engineer who wrote the code used by Street View cars when they controversially scooped up private Wi-Fi data including...
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Three wireless security myths - busted! [VIDEO]
Last year Sophos looked at Wi-Fi security in London and Sydney and the results weren't fantastic. So we thought it was time to make a short revision video, just in time for 2013 Cyber Security...
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Anatomy of a cryptoglitch - Apple's iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50...
If you use your iPhone or iPad as a Wi-Fi hotspot, don't let it generate the passphrase for you. A posse of German computer scientists has found that Apple's iOS passphrase generator may give you less...
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LinkedIn unhacked, Microsoft bounties, Java in your browser - 60 Sec Security...
It's that time again - time for this week's 60 Second Security, our fun-but serious "security news with a conscience" video series. Give it a spin...it'll only take a minute.
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SSCC 112 - Keyjacking, Facebook and Opera breaches, Apple's WPA passwords...
Here you are! Episode #112 of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast. News, opinion, advice and research: Chet and Duck bring you their unique and entertaining combination of all four in their regular...
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Would you tell Google your Wi-Fi password? You probably already did...
Are you prepared to accept a digital equivalent of locking your keys in the car forever? Or would you prefer to have what amounts to a backdoor to your own, or worse still, to other people's, personal...
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Android randomness, Sniffer dustbins, Unpatch Wednesday, ATM skimming - 60...
How does a bug in Android put your Bitcoins at risk? Why did the City of London bin its bins? What was Unpatch Wednesday? What to do with a 3D printer after you've made your own gun? Find out in 60...
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Google loses appeal in Wi-Fi data grab case
A US appeals court has upheld a previous decision from a district court that ruled Google violated wiretap laws when it collected personal data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010.
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Google in trouble for StreetView all over again, this time in Brazil
Every time we've written about the Google Wi-Spy saga, we've said, "Betcha this won't be the last of it." Still isn't...Brazil is the latest country to put the hard word on Google.
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Gaping admin access holes found in SoHo routers from Linksys, Netgear and others
For many home users, the router-slash-firewall at the edge of their network plays an vital security role. So it is always alarming to read about sloppy programming in the firmware that ships with this...
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Google drives the Street View snooping scandal up to the Supreme Court
Google's asking the high court to rule on the legality of its past snorting of unencrypted WiFi traffic in neighborhoods around the US.
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SSCC 151 - Measuring vulns, Apple and Wi-Fi privacy, Android ransomware and...
It's our weekly security pocast! Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin dig into the latest security news for lessons we can all learn...
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Has Apple killed off location analytics with this simple privacy enhancement?
A small change in iOS 8 will make privacy advocates happy, although it's going to be a tough pill to swallow for mobile marketers.
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Privacy and iOS 8, USMS blunder and Cryptowall ransomware - 60 Sec Security...
One minute of fun with a serious side... 60 Second Security - 21 June 2014
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Canadian spam, New York taxis and Brazilian passwords - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Canada goes "opt in", NYC makes a hash, and Brazil forgets its punctuation. It's 60 Second Security for 28 June 2014!
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