This week in security news saw the world’s researchers discover a whole new range of Achilles Heels for PCs, the online privacy service Tor, and even ‘connected’ gadgets such as internet fridges.
Users of the online privacy service Tor - designed to allow users to access hidden sites anonymously - may have been unmasked after an attack lasting five months, crafted to de-anonymise traffic on the service.
The billions of USB ports in use in PCs are vulnerable to a new attack - which can undetectably install malware, steal data and seize control of machines.
Set up in the wake of Facebook's controversial 'experiment', the 99 Days project aims to work out a more profound question: does the site make us happy?
A new report found hundreds of serious security flaws in some of the most popular Internet of Things gadgets - the problem is far deeper than thought, with 70% of the most popular such gadgets having serious security flaws.
A new Android flaw potentially affecting up to 80% of users could leave handsets vulnerable to rogue apps - leapfrogging the defenses used to ensure malicious developers are kept out.
For computer hackers, making the classic first-person shooter Doom play on odd devices is a quest that never ends - but an Australian team may have won the game for good, by running Doom on an ATM.
A single email wiped $300 million off the value of an Australian mining company, after an environmental activist, Jonathan Moylan and sent a press release to media organizations.
Victims of the notorious attack against Sony’s online gaming service and associated websites in 2011, which exposed details for up to 77 million subscribers, are to be offered $15m in digital goods as compensation.
Using free cloud application hosting can allow an attacker to create a “free supercomputer” according to The Register's report - used to mine cryptocurrency, researcher Oscar Salazar warns.
The European Central Bank has revealed that information including email addresses and contact data has leaked in a data breach - and that the unknown attackers demanded “financial compensation” from the bank in return for not releasing the information, according to the BBC’s report.
Ebay’s online ticket resale service Stubhub fell victim to a cyber-scam where a “global gang” used 1,600 hacked accounts on the service and bought and resold tickets, laundering $1m through European banks.
The developers of the Tor online privacy service are fixing a weakness which could have exposed the identities of hundreds of thousands of users of sites around the world.
Account hackers and thieves who loot magic weapons, armor and hard-won game currency from players in massively multiplayer titles such as World of Warcraft should face the same sentences as real-world thieves, a politician has suggested.
Tesla’s Model S has been hacked to make the doors and sun roof open while the car is in motion - and the researchers behind the attack were able to control the systems remotely.
A new project aims to protect homes and small businesses from the security failings of Wi-Fi routers, a problem which has repeatedly hit the headlines over the past year.
A new kind of web tracking tool bypasses the protections privacy-conscious web users rely on and is already being used to track users across thousands of sites - without users being aware of it.
‘Sextortion’ attacks where cybercriminals blackmail victims with the threat of exposing explicit photographs or messages are increasingly common, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
Disgruntled employees and other malicious insiders could be one of the most serious security threats companies face - but the importance of the threat from the ‘enemy within’ varies according to who you ask.
Callous cybercriminals have used the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy as a lure for Facebook scams - creating fake profiles for victims of the crash.
