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On underground criminal marketplaces the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 26 million LiveJournal blogging accounts are being traded, despite LiveJournal’s owners refusing to acknowledge that any security breach has occurred. The fi… Continue reading 26 million LiveJournal users warned that their passwords have been breached
If you were one of the many EasyJet customers who received an email from the airline disclosing that your personal information may have been accessed by hackers, you might be eligible for compensation.
Here’s one way you might try to do that.
Continue reading How EasyJet customers could make money out of the airline being hacked
You can have a strong, unique password, you can have multi-factor authentication in place, but good luck preventing a member of your social media team ‘going rogue’.
Continue reading The Civil Service’s rogue tweet about “Truth Twisters”
Meal kit and food delivery company Home Chef has confirmed that hackers breached its systems, making off with the personal information of customers.
But only after a hacking group put the stolen data up for sale…
Read more in my article on the Ho… Continue reading As hackers sell 8 million user records, Home Chef confirms data breach
Meal kit and food delivery company Home Chef has confirmed that hackers breached its systems, making off with the personal information of customers. Quite how the hackers breached Home Chef’s systems is unclear. In its own FAQ about the security … Continue reading As hackers sell 8 million user records, Home Chef confirms data breach
Let’s take a closer look at the email EasyJet is sending to customers affected by its recent security breach.
Including a brief exploration of how EasyJet’s definition of “recent” might differ from yours or mine…
Continue reading EasyJet’s breach notification email to customers – a closer look
For just under 90 minutes last Thursday, hackers were able to compromise the systems of cryptocurrency lending platform BlockFi, and gain unauthorised access to users’ names, email addresses, dates of birth, address and activity history.
Read mor… Continue reading BlockFi hacked following SIM swap attack, but says no funds lost
Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in one of Trend Micro’s anti-virus products last year to steal information from Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric.
Now, the Japanese Defense Ministry believes the state-sponsored hackers may have been after det… Continue reading Mitsubishi hackers may have stolen details of prototype missile
Apps that belch out sensitive military information, what could the world learn from South Korea’s digital response to the Coronavirus pandemic, and who has been deepfaking Bill Clinton, Jay-Z, and Donald Trump… and why?
All this and much mu… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #179: Deepfake Jay-Z, and beer apps spilling your data
The personal details of nine million customers of budget airline EasyJet have been accessed by hackers in what the budget airline is describing as a “highly sophisticated attack.”
Continue reading EasyJet hack impacts nine million passengers