Collaborate Disseminate
The Darkside ransomware gang thinks it’s a modern-day Robin Hood when it donates extorted Bitcoins to charity, the micro-targeted ad industry could pop like a bubble, and would you trust a burger-flipping robot?
All this and much more is discussed i… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #201: Robin Hood, Flippy, and the web ad bubble
Many thanks to the fab folks at Recorded Future, who are sponsoring my writing this week. Recorded Future empowers your organization, revealing unknown threats before they impact your business, and helping your teams respond to alerts 10 times faster. … Continue reading The Recorded Future Express browser extension – elite security intelligence for zero cost
Sandbox Interactive, the developers of the free medieval fantasy video game Albion Online, have warned players that a hacker managed to break into its systems and gain access to its user database.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Albion Online gamers told to change passwords following forum hack
Hacker exploited forum vulnerability, and offered stolen database for sale Players advised to change their passwords Sandbox Interactive, the developers of the free medieval fantasy video game Albion Online, have warned players that a hacker managed to… Continue reading Albion Online gamers told to change passwords following forum hack
At the end of last week, Google slipped out a blog post that probably went under the radars of some folks.
In it, they revealed that they had mitigated against the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, when its infrastructure bl… Continue reading Google reveals the most powerful DDoS attack in history… albeit three years late
The trials and tribulations of London’s Hackney Council continue after it suffered a “serious cyber attack” last week.
The real-life victims of a cyber attack are the thousands of innocent residents, some of whom may desperately need money in their … Continue reading Hackney Council can’t pay housing benefit after cyber attack
Carole and I have been producing a light-hearted look at the world of cybersecurity and privacy just about every week since December 2016. And this week, after millions of downloads, we released our 200th episode!
We wanted to celebrate reaching th… Continue reading Celebrating 200 episodes of the “Smashing Security” podcast
British Airways has been fined £20 million (US $26 million) following a data breach which saw its systems hacked and the personal and payment card information of 400,000 customers stolen.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Having saved credit card details in plaintext since 2015, British Airways is fined £20 million
British Airways broke data protection laws, and failed to detect attack for more than two months Sensitive information left exposed with no encryption British Airways has been fined £20 million (US $26 million) following a data breach which saw its sys… Continue reading Having Saved Credit Card Details in Plaintext Since 2015, British Airways Is Fined £20 Million
From the as-if-you-didn’t-have-enough-to-worry-about-in-2020 department, the FBI has warned that scammers are attempting to defraud the public by exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Beware COVID-19 charity fraudsters, warns the FBI