Naked Security - Sophos

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

If you need to edit an image, tweak a document or convert a file in a hurry, how can you tell which cloud conversion services to trust?

While Russian hackers were 'probably unsuccessful' at hacking the votes in last year's presidential election, it doesn't mean they won't try again - which makes securing the ballot system all the more urgent

It's not about the Fifth; it's about a search warrant in a child abuse case, and there's no maximum prison sentence for those in contempt

The latest twist sees the bot armies busily retweeting legitimate accounts in an attempt to get them banned for abuse - and it's working. So why can't Twitter do better?

Even if you're not quite as famous as Justin Bieber, having your social media accounts compromised is horrible. We've got some tips to help you protect yourself

There's finally a firmware update for the 465,000 affected pacemakers to fix the potentially life-threatening flaws

When disaster strikes, scammers rush to exploit the good hearts of people wanting to help - here's what to look out for

Relying on labels can make or break machine learning-based malware analysis - here's how to mitigate that

The huge cache of addresses was discovered on a server based in the Netherlands - and the researchers are trying to get it taken down