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Summary by Shaun Nichols for The Register of the story behind the exploit that caused 911 centres around Phoenix to be flooded with ’emergency calls’. Lad cuffed after iOS call exploit knocks out Arizona 911 center David Harley
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Graham Cluley describes a ‘smishing’ campaign (phishing via SMS texts) targeting Apple iOS users, trying to persuade them to access a malicious URL by telling them that ‘Your AppleID is die to expire Today’. As the clocks go back, UK Apple users targeted by smishing campaign – Think before you click, and you too can […]
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So, just one day after suggesting that I’m cutting back on notifications to this site… Continue reading More recent news
(1) This site is less of a priority nowadays (2) A catch-up on some issues that I thought were interesting, nevertheless. Continue reading Slowdown and Catch-Up
Statistics from the Anti-Phishing Working Group regarding phishing, malware etc. Continue reading Anti-Phishing Working Group phish/malware report
More about those not-very-useful disclaimers that people keep posting to stop Facebook ‘misusing’ their posts every year or so. Continue reading Facebook and those ‘legal’ disclaimers
NewsThump apparently attempts to reduce the number of Facebook hoaxes by generating a hoax of its own. Where would the internet be without satire? Mark Zuckerberg to give everyone $1000 to stop sharing stupid Facebook hoaxes I thought of sharing this article on Facebook, but was torn between not wanting to mislead people who lack the hoax/satire […]
Continue reading Fighting Hoaxes with Hoaxes?
Interesting statistics regarding the relative proportions of tech support scam victims in various parts of the world Continue reading Support Scam Victimology
When it comes to ransomware, the question of ‘to pay or not to pay’ is the source of some debate. WeLive ecurity takes a closer look at the economics.
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Here are the results of a recent test by AV-Test asking (and answering) the question ‘Is security software for Android with parental control functions sufficient to protect our children or is it better to have a special parental control app?’ Test: Parental Control Apps for Android David Harley ESET Senior Research Fellow (This isn’t an ESET […]
Continue reading AV-Test looks at Android parental control apps