A serious flaw in PayPal Holdings Inc, an American company which operates a worldwide online payments system, has been patched. The flaw could have allowed an attacker to trick users into handing over their personal and financial details. Link: PayPal fixes serious vulnerability in its domain
The affected fridge is the Samsung RF28HMELBSR. The fridge is equipped with a built-in display that can be used to view, amongst other things, calendar details. Link: Samsung smart fridge exposes Gmail login details to attackers
On Monday, a federal appeals court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the power to take action (PDF) against companies that employ poor IT security practices. Link: FTC can sue companies with poor information security, appeals court says
Know how a lot of people tend to use passwords such as “123456” or, well, “password?” Well, turns out Android lock patterns (ALPs) are just as predictable. Link: Android lock patterns as predictable as common passwords
Discontinued on-the-fly disk encryption utility TrueCrypt was unable to keep out the FBI in the case of a US government techie who stole copies of classified military documents. How the Feds broke into the IT bod’s encrypted TrueCrypt partition isn’t clear. Link: Wait, what? TrueCrypt ‘decrypted’ by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin
