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Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Recorded Future. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Strong identity authentication is more important than ever as organizations face an unprecedented level of attacks tar… Continue reading Disrupt adversaries and prevent identity fraud with Recorded Future Identity Intelligence
VirusTotal’s first Ransomware Activity Report reveals that it received ransomware submissions from 140 different countries around the world, and discovered at least 130 different ransomware families had been active since January 2020.
Read more in m… Continue reading Analysis of 80 million ransomware samples reveals a world under attack
A married couple are accused of selling nuclear sub secrets, Facebook continues to make young lives a misery, and a school hacker lets loose one heck of a prank.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashin… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #247: Rickrolling submarine secrets
A 30-year-old man employed at Bank of America and TD Mark is alleged to have exploited his position to defraud five businesses out of more than $1.1 million in a Business Email Compromise plot.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Bank of America employee indicted for email scam that targeted businesses
10,000 high-risk users are being provided with free hardware security keys by Google, with the aim of better protecting their accounts from hackers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Google gives away 10,000 free security keys to high-risk users
Police in France have arrested and charged a 22-year-old man with hacking into a “secure” file-sharing systems used by a Parisian hospital trust, and stealing the COVID-19 test details for 1.4 million people. Continue reading Man charged with hack which shared COVID-19 test details in protest against vaccine pass
Eleanor Dallaway, the editor of InfoSecurity Magazine, was kind enough to invite me onto her podcast “IntoSecurity Chats” this week. In it we discuss infosecurity rockstars, podcasts, how I would feel if I was stranded on a beautiful tropical island, … Continue reading An appearance on the IntoSecurity Chats podcast
Organisations who find their networks hit by a ransomware attack may soon have to disclose within 48 hours any payments to their extortionists.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Ransom disclosure law would give firms 48 hours to disclose payments to ransomware gangs
The UK High Court has determined that the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, had his ex-wife’s smartphone hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware, sold by the equally notorious NSO Group.
But what I find particularly fascinating is who bl… Continue reading Cherie Blair and the Dubai ruler who spied on his ex-wife’s phone with Pegasus spyware
Facebook suffers a massive (and very public) failure, Britain announces plans for counter-attacking nation states in cyberspace, and there’s a tragic story related to ransomware. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the aw… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #246: Facebook has fallen