Collaborate Disseminate
This weekend US Customs and Border Protection at New York’s JFK airport seemed proud to announce that it had “seized 2,000 counterfeit Apple AirPods” coming in from Hong Kong.
But take another look… Continue reading US Customs has one heck of a false positive over “counterfeit Apple AirPods”
Do you think you can crack Monero’s layers of privacy? The IRS would like to hear from you.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Can you crack Monero? IRS offers $625,000 bounty for anyone who can break privacy of cryptocurrency
According to Dutch magazine, three ethical hackers were able to determine Donald Trump’s Twitter password while he was running his US Presidential campaign.
A password that had been exposed years before following the notorious LinkedIn hack. Continue reading “Yourefired” was Donald Trump’s Twitter password, claim hackers
We’ve said it once, we’ve said it twice, we’ve said it one hundred times.
Hardening the security of your accounts with two-factor authentication (2FA) can dramatically reduce their chances of being hacked.
Read more in my article on the Hot for S… Continue reading Secure your Zoom account with Two-Factor Authentication
2FA makes Zoom video-conferencing accounts harder for hackers to compromise Users given option of app-based or SMS-based 2FA Admins can set 2FA policy for different user groups We’ve said it once, we’ve said it twice, we’ve said it one hundred times. H… Continue reading Secure Your Zoom Account with Two-Factor Authentication
European cryptocurrency exchange platform Eterbase has announced that it has suffered a security breach which saw hackers access its network and steal funds worth US $5.4 million.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase hacked, $5.4 million worth of funds stolen
European cryptocurrency exchange platform Eterbase has announced that it has suffered a security breach which saw malicious hackers access its network and steal funds worth US $5.4 million. In a message posted on Telegram, the Slovakian cryptocurrency … Continue reading Cryptocurrency exchange Eterbase hacked, $5.4 million worth of funds stolen
The Gadget Show’s Jon Bentley joins us to discuss the mystery of a Facebook friend you never requested, software updates for the Mercedes S-Class, and risks in the online classroom.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the aw… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #195: Selene Delgado Lopez is not your friend
A reader got in touch with me regarding a suspicious email they had received claiming to come from Facebook.
What I expected to be a simple phishing email turned out to be something much more curious… Continue reading Fake Facebook email invites you to tell 39 strangers you were duped
According to media reports, India’s leading online shopping app has sent a legal notice to a US security firm demanding that they stop spreading “false” claims that it has been hacked. Indian financial newspaper Mint says that Paytm Mall ha… Continue reading Mystery surrounds alleged Paytm Mall hack, as security firm hit by legal threat