One thing the world doesn’t need: hackers who can broadcast to billboards of any size, be they PC monitor- or Godzilla-sized.

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Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – give it a listen!

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FamilyTreeDNA has disclosed that it’s opened up more than 1m DNA profiles to the FBI to help find suspects of violent crime.

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Half of the apps used to control a range of Internet of Things devices are insecure in a variety of ways, researchers found.

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The only person who knew the password is dead, leaving customers unable to access around $190million in fiat and virtual currency.

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Anyone could have accessed the entire database, including a child’s location, on Gator watches and other models that share its back end.

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Researchers have discovered security holes in 5G, 4G and 3G telephony protocols, which can expose a user’s location.

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Chrome now checks for misspellings of popular URLs and will display a link to the site that it thinks the user might have wanted to visit.

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The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.

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A groundbreaking settlement in New York finds that selling fake likes and followers is illegal.

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