Collaborate Disseminate
A ‘zombie script’ could allow attackers to deluge Internet Explorer 11 users with pop-up alerts until they close the tab.
David Bisson reports.
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Victims of the secret surveillance operation have included a manufacturer of industrial control system monitoring equipment, a human rights institution, and a scientific research institute.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Operation BugDrop – hackers steal gigabytes of data from organisations, record conversations
Police have charged Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law and three of his family members with hacking the celebrity chef’s emails. On 21 February, the Metropolitan Police announced charges against Chris Hutcherson, 68, along with Adam Hutcheson, Orlanda Butland, and Chris Hutcheson, 37. The four individuals are accused of having violated the Criminal Law Act of 1977. Their […]… Read More
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Ensure that you have properly hardened your Microsoft account from hackers, by following David Bisson’s advice.
Continue reading How to protect your Microsoft account with two-step verification (2SV)
Scammers want nothing more than to steal our personal and/or financial information. Towards that end, they’ve come up numerous ways of tricking us into giving them our details. One particularly persistent method is the Grandma scam. Unlike email-based ploys, the Grandma scam centers around a fraudster who rings up an older individual. They pose as […]… Read More
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A hacker defaced a presidential campaign fundraising website for Donald Trump with a little help from a DNS misconfiguration issue.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Hacker defaces Donald Trump fundraising site via subdomain takeover attack
A Ukraine citizen will spend close to four years in prison for administering a fraud forum in addition to perpetrating other computer criminal activities. As reported by Brian Krebs, 29-year-old Sergey Vovnenko received a sentence of 41 months in prison on 16 February for wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. The Ukrainian, who is […]… Read More
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A German privacy watchdog is urging parents to destroy My Friend Cayla, a doll which has a knack for collecting private information about its young owners.
David Bisson reports.
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Canada is in the final stages of enacting legislation that will require all companies to report data breaches to the federal government. The Canadian government first passed the legislation back in 2015 as part of the Digital Privacy Act. Due to the need for “related regulations outlining specific requirements,” government officials gave industry stakeholders a […]… Read More
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Canada is in the final stages of enacting legislation that will require all companies to report data breaches to the federal government. The Canadian government first passed the legislation back in 2015 as part of the Digital Privacy Act. Due to the need for “related regulations outlining specific requirements,” government officials gave industry stakeholders a […]… Read More
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