Collaborate Disseminate
The US authorities have sentenced a man to 24 months in a federal prison after he was found to have run a DDoS-for-hire service that knocked websites off the internet.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading DDoS-for-hire service which bombarded websites with attacks earns man two years in prison
Boffins at the University of California San Diego have found a way to track individuals via Bluetooth.
Researchers discovered that the Bluetooth signals emitted by mobile phones carry a unique fingerprint, caused by small imperfections accidentally … Continue reading You can be tracked via your Bluetooth signal, researchers claim
A Windows zero-day vulnerability dubbed “DogWalk” has not received an official patch yet from Microsoft, but that hasn’t stopped others from offering free fixes to protect users.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading DogWalk zero-day Windows bug receives patch – but not from Microsoft
Trouble brews with the Tim Hortons app, Mandiant gets in a tussle with a Russian ransomware gang, and should good faith security researchers be at risk of prosecution?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “S… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #278: Tim Hortons, avoiding sanctions, and good faith security research
An Iranian hacking gang called Bohrium has had its activities disrupted after Microsoft seized control of 41 domains used in spear-phishing attacks.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Microsoft disrupts Bohrium spear-phishing ring by seizing 41 domains
Apple says that it protected many millions of users from being defrauded to the tune of nearly $1.5 billion dollars in the last year, by policing its official App Store.
According to a newly published report by Apple, over 1.6 million risky and untr… Continue reading Apple protected App Store users from $1.5 billion fraud last year
Ransom acts of kindness are top of our mind, as we also explore how bad bots are hogging more and more of the internet’s activity, and look at how deepfakes could be a good thing after all.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition o… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #277: Bad bots, cheeky ransoms, and good deepfakes
A database of contact information for hundreds of Verizon employees is in the hands of cybercriminals, after a member of staff was duped into granting a hacker access to their work PC.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Hacker steals Verizon employee database after tricking worker into granting remote access
The world is waiting for a patch from Microsoft, after a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office was found to be being exploited in boobytrapped Word documents to remotely execute code on victims’ PCs. Continue reading Follina. Unpatched Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild
The great thing about working in the world of cybersecurity is that there’s always something new. You may think you’ve seen it all, and then something comes along that completely surprises you.
And that’s certainly true of the GoodWill ransomware…… Continue reading Ransomware demands acts of kindness to get your files back