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Donald Trump’s official presidential re-election campaign website was briefly defaced by hackers last night.
Visitors to the website donaldjtrump.com were not greeted with the normal calls for campaign contributions or offers of Trump-related mercha… Continue reading Donald Trump’s website briefly defaced by cryptomining scammers
A Finnish psychotherapy clinic has dismissed its CEO in the wake of a disastrous data breach which has seen patients’ personal details, as well as notes of what has been discussed in confidential therapy sessions, exposed… and clients blackmailed. Continue reading Finnish therapy clinic’s CEO fired after despicable data breach and blackmail threats
Multiple Amazon customers have turned to social media to describe how they have received a notification from the online retail giant that their email addresses have been leaked to an unnamed third party.
Emails sent by Amazon to customers admit that… Continue reading Amazon fires employee for leaking customer data
Sopra Steria confirms it has been hit by a new strain of the Ryuk ransomware, and that it will take weeks for its IT network to return to normal operation. Continue reading Sopra Steria confirms it has been hit by new strain of Ryuk ransomware, will take weeks to return to normal operations
Facebook has filed federal lawsuits against four individuals who it claims have been selling fake Instagram followers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Fake Instagram follower services slapped with lawsuit
According to Dutch ethical hacker Victor Gevers, as recently as last week the US President’s @realDonaldTrump account was protected by the incredibly-dumb password “maga2020!” and did not have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Continue reading Donald Trump’s Twitter password is “maga2020!”, and there’s no 2FA, claims hacker
The Twitter account of the Fort Bragg US military base was deleted last night, after what it claimed was a hack.
But whether it really was hacked or not is up for debate. Continue reading Fort Bragg fails to keep a firm grip on its Twitter account, as it blames hacker for saucy tweets
Loginizer, a popular plugin for protecting WordPress blogs from brute force attacks, has been found to contain its own severe vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers.
The flaw opened up opportunities for cybercriminals to completely compr… Continue reading Over one million WordPress sites receive forced update to security plugin after severe vulnerability discovered
Loginizer, a popular plugin for protecting WordPress blogs from brute force attacks, has been found to contain its own severe vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers. The flaw, discovered by vulnerability researcher Slavco Mihajloski, opened… Continue reading Over one million WordPress sites receive forced update to security plugin after severe vulnerability discovered
European IT services group Sopra Steria has been hit by a cyber attack.
Which would be unfortunate for any business at the best of times, but is possibly even more galling for a firm like Sopra Steria which has a specialist cybersecurity branch whic… Continue reading Sopra Steria hit by cyber attack. IT services group suspected of falling victim to ransomware