Collaborate Disseminate
Special guest Geoff White can’t resist using the podcast to promote his new book, “Crime Dot Com”, but other than that we also discuss the creepy (and apparently legal) way websites can find out your email and postal address even if y… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #190: Twitter hack arrests, email bad behaviour, and Fawkes vs facial recognition
What’s a phone spear phishing attack? Twitter shares some more details related to its serious security breach earlier this month which saw celebrity accounts tweeting a cryptocurrency scam.
Continue reading Twitter says a “phone spear phishing” attack helped hackers – what’s that?
Zoom has patched a security hole that could have allowed attackers to break their way into password-protected private calls.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Zoom bug meant attackers could brute force their way into password-protected meetings
Zoom has patched a security hole that could have allowed attackers to break their way into password-protected private calls. The flaw, discovered by SearchPilot’s Tom Anthony, meant that hackers and spies could have broken into private password-p… Continue reading Zoom bug meant attackers could brute force their way into password-protected meetings
Why are students faking their own kidnappings? What’s the story behind Garmin’s ransomware attack? And a genetic genealogy website suffers a hack or two.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #189: DNA cock-up, Garmin hack, and virtual kidnappings
A critical vulnerability in a third-party comments plugin installed on over 70,000 websites running WordPress could allow hackers to execute malicious code remotely.
If you’re using the wpDIscuz commenting plugin, make sure you’ve kept it u… Continue reading Thousands of websites at risk from critical WordPress commenting plugin vulnerability
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) found itself very publicly tussling with a hacker on its Twitter account this morning.
Continue reading Hacker plays cat-and-mouse with the EBRD’s Twitter account
If you want to find out how different business anti-virus products performed in the tests, and how the one that protects your business fared, check out the report right now.
Continue reading Business anti-virus products put to the test – which received the highest score?
One of Ireland’s largest banks, Bank of Ireland, has been fined almost €1.7 million after regulators discovered it had failed to inform financial regulators and the police after a fraudster tricked them into transferring funds from a client’… Continue reading Bank of Ireland fined €1.66 million after being tricked by fraudster
If you searched on Google for details of your nearest train station in parts of New York state, you might be in for a rude surprise.
Continue reading Google blames algorithm for adding porn titles to train station search results