Collaborate Disseminate
Deepfake expert Nina Schick joins us as we discuss synthetic media, Facebook’s latest data fiasco, and some less-than-brilliant April Fool’s tricks.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” p… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #222: Facebook, deepfakes, and April Fools scandals – with Nina Schick
Cybercriminal extortionists have adopted a new tactic to to apply even more pressure on their corporate victims: contacting the victims’ customers, and asking them to demand a ransom is paid to protect their own privacy.
Read more in my article on t… Continue reading A new headache for ransomware-hit companies. Extortionists emailing your customers
Would it have been so hard for Facebook to apologise for allowing 533 million personal records – including users’ phone numbers – to leak onto the internet?
I don’t think so. And yet sorry seems to be the hardest word… Continue reading Facebook isn’t sorry for letting someone steal personal details of half a billion users
Cybersecurity can be hard. Even for the professionals.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog. Continue reading Check you own the website before you send out the press release
Food-delivery company Delveroo thought it would be fun to play an April Fool’s trick on its customers in France.
Unfortunately, what Deliveroo France did just wasn’t funny.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading How Deliveroo scared customers into believing they had been scammed
CISA, the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has told federal agencies that they have until 1April 5 to scan their networks for evidence of intrusion by hackers, and report back the results.
Read m… Continue reading Federal agencies given five days to find hacked Exchange servers
FatFace stumps up $2 million to its ransomware extortionists, an IT administrator is caught with his pants down, Mobikwik blames its users for a data breach, and we burgle a house… virtually.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #221: God bless his hairy palms
When an unintelligible tweet was made by the US Strategic Command’s Twitter account, it’s understandable that some folks might imagine a password was accidentally published to the world, or that perhaps the account had been compromised, or… gulp!… … Continue reading US nuclear command agency’s gibberish tweet was sent by a child
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Recorded Future. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Recorded Future provides deep, detailed insight into emerging threats by automatically collecting, analyzing, and orga… Continue reading Get FREE threat intelligence on hackers and exploits with the Recorded Future Cyber Daily
Live broadcasts from Australia’s Channel 9 TV network were disrupted this weekend following what is believed to have been a cyber attack.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Cyber attack forces live TV shows off-air at Australia’s Channel 9