Articles from May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015
Part of the mobile website of the Washington Post was compromised briefly on Thursday by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group, in an attack that redirected traffic to a site with anti-US and anti-media messages.
May 15, 2015
A UK man has been given a non-custodial sentence this week, after a ransomware infection on his computer led him to report himself to police. The man's computer held several hundred animal porn images, described in court as "extreme" and "revolting".
May 15, 2015
Reddit has vowed to take a more active role in protecting its members from personal attacks and online harassment.
May 15, 2015
A week of many patches, Lenovo in the news again, an anti-forensic tool with a misleading name, and the rudely-named "sport" of Fusking. Listen to our latest straight-talking security podcast...
May 15, 2015
A US scientist working for the National Weather Service was suspected of spying for China, and got swept up in a dragnet amid growing concerns in the US about cyberespionage.
May 15, 2015
The three allegedly cooked up counterfeit documents and got others to borrow money to buy iPhones, iPads and other gadgets.
May 15, 2015
Fujitsu claims its new phone, the Fujitsu Arrows NX F-04G, is the first ever to use iris scanning to replace passwords or fingerprint readers. Time to ditch passwords?
