Collaborate Disseminate
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority is asking people to contact it via phone or fax, as it is unable to receive emails from the outside world.
The reason? It turned off its email following a suspected cyber attack. Continue reading Japanese nuclear agency warns of cyber attack, turns off email systems
US hospitals and healthcare providers have been warned that there is evidence of a credible and imminent threat that they will be targeted by ransomware.
In an alert jointly released by the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (… Continue reading US hospitals warned of threat of imminent ransomware attack
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Voting machines are under the microscope, scammers are posing as rap stars, and American politician AOC isn’t the only one who’s been getting into the Among Us game.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Sma… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #202: The Wu-Tang Clan are Among Us
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