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MCX - a lousy substitute for proven technology

Advertising companies are placing Bluetooth beacons in New York City phone booths. Forbes explains this isn't quite as scary as many think.

A fun set of (reasonably) quick crypto, puzzle, and hacking challenges from Praetorian.

Quick description and demo videos for activity hijacking to steal user-entered data like passwords, credit card numbers, and check images. Includes links to USENIX paper.

Paypal mobile app authenticates, then kicks you out because it's not two-factor compliant. They show how to leverage this into non 2FA access.

A quick overview of changes to iOS configuation profile settings in the current iOS 8 beta.

A consolidated list of known malware for iOS. Depending on your definition of malware.

Recent reports of users getting locked out of their iOS devices, probably due to compromise of their Apple ID password.

Backing up iOS devices to iCloud is still opaque and unreliable. And iTunes Wi-Fi backups just don't work at all.

Running your own server to protect the anonymity and content of your email is great, as long as nobody else you exchange messages with uses Gmail. How many of your emails are also on a Google server?

Dark Reading article on the DBIR Puzzle

Shared files, hidden by the obscurity of their URLs, may be revealed to third parties if the files contain a link to an external site. The remote site can find the file via the referrer header.