While some bars have already expressed reluctance in accepting customers with Google Glasses, strip joints joined the bandwagon as the technology could be too disruptive and intrusive. Having the potential of being used to constantly record and broadcast videos; it raises serious privacy concerns for casinos, strip clubs, theaters and other places. Although Google Glasses have not yet been released, some ha...

The recently released second Beta of Mozilla’s Persona web-login technology introduced a new Identity Bridging feature that enables users to login to websites with no credentials other than their email address. While the first beta of Persona required that users register an email address with a Persona Identity Provider server (IdP), the new beta removes the need for first authenticating the email address w...

A new IRS tax spam campaign pumped up by the Cutwail botnet has been found to deliver „goodies” for Android users as well, according to Dell’s SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit. Called Stels, this Android Trojan is a multi-purpose tool impersonating an Adobe Flash update. If it gets installed, the malware can intercept SMS messages, collect contact information and initiate phone calls, as well as install addi...

A number of highly popular router brands including Linksys, D-Link and Netgear, can be exploited to allow administrative access over the device. Although mainly used for home networking, these devices are often deployed in companies in non-critical infrastructures (for wireless networks for guests not interconnected with the corporate network) being less expensive than their professional counterparts. Accor...

With adware gleaning more user data from people devices than they would normally need too and developers bundle more than one adware framework into their apps, user privacy is increasingly taking a backseat to profit for developers and advertisers. More and more unknown third parties now have access to user browsing history, phone numbers, email address and everything they need to compile comprehensive and ...

A car parking contractor in the UK has inadvertently exposed driver and car information following a security incident with its website. According to The Register, the UK Parking Control (UKPC) has made available to the public pictures of cars parked in the lots they manage, including clearly visible plate numbers, identification cards and – in some circumstances – the car’s location. Whenever a car is parke...

The advent of social networking did not change only the way people interact with each other, but also opened new challenges to authenticating a rich environment of applications to interact with the account. Since logging into an application with your social network’s credentials is like handing your house keys to people you barely know, the Open Authorization standard has become increasingly popular. It int...

North Korea may be on the brink of declaring war, but guerrilla operations have already started in cyber-space. Hacktivists supposedly affiliated with Anonymous seized control of the Twitter and Flickr accounts of the North Korean propaganda news agency and started posting criticism of leader Kim Jong-un. As North Korea has hardly any presence on the Internet, the Twitter and Flickr accounts set up by Urimi...

Yahoo users are again slammed by fraudsters who steal their credentials and block their accounts. The e-mails look like coming from a biology education platform, and warn users their accounts were deleted. The phishing messages manage to avoid the e-mail provider’s antispam filters and flood many inboxes. Users are tricked to give away their credentials with well-crafted e-mails about a fake “Yahoo! Email D...

Fraudsters hacked the database of Bitcoin service Instawallet, according to IDG News Service. The storing service acknowledged the security breach, but didn’t say how many bitcoins were stolen. The company also suspended the service indefinitely and plans to develop a new architecture. “Our database was fraudulently accessed, [and] due to the very nature of Instawallet it is impossible to reopen the service...