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Warning! Hackers are exploiting Texas explosion news to spread malware

by Graham Cluley on April 18, 2013 | 18 Comments

Warning! Hackers are exploiting Waco explosion news to spread malware

Once again, cybercriminals are leaping at the opportunity to take advantage of breaking news stories to spread malware.

Texas student appeals court order to wear "Mark of the Beast" RFID tracking badge

by Lisa Vaas on January 14, 2013 | 49 Comments

Andrea Hernandez on Tuesday was ordered to wear an RFID tracking badge that she claims bears the "mark of the beast", but by Friday she had turned the case right back around, asking a federal appeals court to overturn the order to either wear a chip-less badge or change schools.

US school tries to suspend student for refusing to wear RFID tracking badge

by Lisa Vaas on November 26, 2012 | 39 Comments

The Texas high school has been temporarily blocked from suspending the student, who objects to the mandatory tracking IDs on reasons having to do with privacy and religion.

Undercover cop outed on Facebook, woman arrested for posting photo

by Lisa Vaas on October 18, 2012 | 12 Comments

Police arrested a Texas woman for allegedly posting a photo of an undercover police officer onto her Facebook page.

The case shows that it's time that police learn how vulnerable they are in a social media world.

US schools track teens by putting chips into students' ID cards

by Lisa Vaas on September 14, 2012 | 45 Comments

Surveillance_250: Texas schools putting tracking chips into students' ID cards

Some parents call it an invasion of privacy akin to tracking cattle, and a coalition of privacy and civil liberties organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union has called for a moratorium on the technology. What do you think?

Sony, Facebook controversy, FBI bust, Armenia cut off - 90 Sec News - April 2011

by Paul Ducklin on May 10, 2011 | 3 Comments

Don't just read the latest computer security news - watch it in 90 seconds!

This month: Sony suffers a cloudburst, Facebook courts controversy (again), the FBI busts Coreflood and Armenia gets cut off.

State of Texas exposes data on 3.5 million people

by Chester Wisniewski on April 12, 2011 | 9 Comments

Susan Combs, Comptroller for the state of Texas announced a massive data leak that resulted in 3.5 million people's social security numbers, names, addresses and in some cases their birth date and drivers license number being exposed.