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Texas becomes first US state to ban warrantless email snooping
Texans now enjoy greater email privacy than any other state in the union, some are saying. Republicans and liberals alike rejoice.
EU's Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate
A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union's plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don't provide enough protection for personal data. He's also suggested that too little attention has been paid to existing regulations and agencies.
Kentucky man charged with using scans of checks to double-dip funds
The crime was allegedly carried out with the help of mobile remote deposit capture, which entails sending a scan or photo of your check to your bank, leaving the original paper copy to, evidently, burn a hole in your pocket, given that there's currently no real-time duplicate detection databases in place.
Yahoo's going to boot us off our deadbeat accounts, but who is going to grab them?
Get thee to your unused Yahoo account before July 15 if you don't relish the thought of somebody taking control of your handle and doing heaven knows what with whatever email gets sent to it.
Apple chimes in with the "Ain't no PRISM here!" chorus
Apple has joined in with the PRISM surveillance saga, insisting that nobody has direct access to its servers and that even it can't read customers' end-to-end encrypted conversations.
SSCC 111 - PRISM and data leakage, encryption, Google contracts and Flash on phones [PODCAST]
Episode #111 of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast is here.
Chet and Duck are back, wrangling the latest security stories into an entertaining and informative quarter-hour of useful news.
US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones
They are demanding a switch on our smartphones that would theoretically brick them after they're stolen. But would it be effective?
FDA tells medical device makers and hospitals to strengthen security
The FDA hasn't seen patient deaths or injuries, but it has seen malware clogging up hospital equipment, passwords passed around like candy, and disregard for updating/patching old equipment.
Monday review - the hot 16 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
Australia's National Consumer Fraud Week starts today - the motto is, "Outsmart the scammers!"
Do you know someone who's been scammed online?
Chances are that you do - or you may have been scammed yourself.
The National Consumer Fraud Week aims to spread the word about how to avoid becoming a victim online.
Get ready! Oracle to fix 40 holes in Java on Tuesday, 18 June 2013
There's a Java update coming next Tuesday, 18 June 2013, and you might as well get ready for it now if you haven't already.
Oracle has fixed 40 holes, all but three of them remotely exploitable.
PRISM, UK Surveillance, Sweden vs. Google, Blackberry Z10 - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Do you really need to worry about things like privacy and security?
Here's the latest in our 60 Second Security video series, bringing you fast, incisive and entertaining evidence that says, "Yes, you do!"
UK political bigwigs demand return of snoopers' charter. Seriously? Today?
In a stirring display of bad timing, a cluster of top UK political figures has issued a public letter insisting on the revival of the so-called "snoopers' charter" - legislation to give British police and intelligence services more access to personal data.
"Nej till Google!" - Sweden tells a local council that Google's cloud is a no-go area
Swedish bureaucrats have instructed a town in the Scandinavian country to say "No" to Google.
They object to the leeway over customer data that Google grants itself in its cloud contracts...
Naked Security's Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault say goodbye
The end of an era has come. After a combined service of - gulp - 29 years, Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault are saying au revoir...
#Facebook gets #hashtags, which does #WTF to your #privacy?
Oh, boy! Now you won't miss snippets regarding #gameofthrones or the antics of people's #children!
Internet giants call for transparency in government surveillance requests
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has vehemently denied giving the government direct access to servers. Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google have all put out calls for transparency into the US government's information demands.
Dozing bank clerk turns €64 into €22 million - and teaches us all a security lesson!
Have you heard the one about the German bank clerk who turned €64 into €22 million? Even if it's an urban legend, the story offers you some surprising advice about social networking.
Paul Ducklin draws his longbow to make the connection...
Blackberry releases first security fixes for new Z10 smartphone
Blackberry released the first two security advisories for its new Z10 smartphone yesterday. One of the patches was for Adobe Flash vulnerabilities from January. Flash? On a smartphone? In 2013?
Was Microsoft's takedown of Citadel effective?
Last week, Microsoft took aim at more than 1,400 Citadel botnets by sinkholing their command and control infrastructure.
What was the actual effect of this takedown? SophosLabs takes a look...
