14 September 2012, 15:41

Lost+Found: Facebook photo fails and Twitter's new security rock star

Lost+Found icon Too short for news, too good to lose; Lost+Found is a roundup of useful security news. This time: Facebook photo protection fails, learning spammers, all the PIN numbers, 20 years of DEF CON, a world of malware, legal Wi-Fi wiretapping, and a security rock star at Twitter.

McAfee's Social Protection, which was developed to solve the unsolvable problem of only allowing people you want to save your Facebook photos, has been found somewhat wanting in effectiveness.

Sometimes it's possible for the senders of SMS spam to actually learn something.

And in a spectacular data leak, all the PIN numbers of all the credit cards have been published. Is yours on there?

If its wet this weekend, why not spend some time with the last 20 years of DEF CON at your browsing fingertips.

The world is rotten with viruses and malware. Or at least that's the impression you'll be left with if you leave F-Secure's live worldmap running on your desktop.

An Illinois Federal Judge has ruled that if a Wi-Fi network is unencrypted then intercepting its traffic is not wiretapping as its publicly readable anyway.

Twitter's security crew have a rock star of the security scene joining them on the Tweet boat on Monday as Apple and iOS hacker Charlie Miller starts working with them.

(djwm)

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