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The 'What's Worse Security Championships finals' - Vote now
To honour the March Madness sporting finals, we adapted the concept and launched our very own What's Worse Security Championships. Join the thousands of others and place your vote now in the finals.
The 'What's Worse Security Championships'
With March Madness Basketball in full swing in America, we thought it might be fun to try and adapt the concept of sport championships to the land of IT security.
Losing a phone or device REALLY sucks [INFOGRAPHIC]
Ahhh, losing phones - something i sadly do often. A recent survey has some interesting findings: it reported that men were more likely than women to lose devices, and that Londoners lost devices more often than people living elsewhere in the UK. Any of this surprise you?
42% of lost mobiles have no security in place to protect data, says report
Out of those who reported that they had lost devices, 42% had no security measures in place, and one in five contained access to work-related documents or email. Young, male Londoners, you're the worst when it comes to losing stuff, but take heart: you're the best at making sure your lost gadgets are secured.
Who reads Naked Security? The results are in....
A few weeks ago, we asked you, our readers, a little bit more about you. Here are the results of that anonymous poll.
Who reads Naked Security?
The other day, someone asked me: so who exactly reads Naked Security? And how do you know you are giving them what they want?
Facebook stops asking users to rat out friends using fake names online
Facebook has wrapped up an experiment that entailed surveying people whether Friends are using pseudonyms, which is a violation of its long-standing real-names policy.
Security fears around remote working, the cloud and wireless networks cited by SMBs
The days of IT managers simply worrying about the security of the network inside their physical offices are long gone.
Cloud services, mobile devices, wireless networks and a remote workforce are complicating security management for IT departments who wish to protect corporate data.
Smartphones: which one do you like best?
Which is the better smartphone choice: iPhone, Android, Blackberry? Which is most secure? Check out what Naked Security readers thought, and take the chance to have your say.
Only 4% of IT staff trust users: free security toolkit now available
User education is of course a great idea, but we all know how hard it is to get the messages across in a clear and memorable way. Sophos launches a free education toolkit to help the poor IT guys who are responsible for user education.
Over 1000 email addresses exposed by Metropolitan Police blunder
1136 victims of crime have had their email addresses inadvertently shared with one another, according to reports.
90-second security survey: take part and win a Christmas goodie bag from Sophos
Social networks, personal laptops at work and internet threats. Tell us what you think, and win a goodie bag.
Mobile users afraid their data is not safe
Oracle released a survey today showing customers lack of confidence in the security of data on their smartphones. Mobile control can help, IT administrators must partner with their users to make mobile data usage safer.
Macbooks, Korea, Spamford busted, phones lost, Anonymous threat - 60 Sec Security
No, the headline isn't a misprint. 90 Second News is now 60 Second Security!
Lots of readers said they'd like to see our 'news-with-a-conscience' videos more than once a month. So here you go. 60 Second Security, once every two weeks.
Survey says 70% don't password-protect mobiles: download free Mobile Toolkit
Have you ever lost your mobile phone? I have. Four times last year. And I am not alone. A recent Sophos survey shows 22% of people admitted to losing theirs. Worse, a whopping 70% of mobile phone users apparently don't use any password protection.
Win Sophos swag by participating in our latest social media survey
Every year we run an investigation into how many of you are being hit by threats (such as spam, malware and phishing) on social networks. Well, it's that time again!
This year, to encourage you to help us, we're offering a rare and highly coveted shirt to three lucky winners.
Reporter had a stroke on live TV - Facebook scam
Facebook scammers exploit Serene Branson, after speculation spread that she had suffered a stroke while presenting from the Grammy Awards.
LinkedIn scam - the fraudulent survey which wasn't
Last week, when many people were still on holiday, Naked Security readers started complaining about suspicious-looking emails appearing to be from popular business networking site LinkedIn.
It certainly looked like a scam. But was it?

















