Collaborate Disseminate
It was twenty years ago today, that the Love Bug hit computer systems worldwide.
Which means I know what I was doing exactly twenty years ago!
James Griffiths at CNN interviewed me about my memories of that historic day
Continue reading It was 20 years ago today… The Love Bug remembered
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said that it will be changing the terminology it uses on its website, causing some to describe it as “political correctness gone mad.”
Here’s what I think…
Continue reading My old-fashioned view on the terms “blacklist” and “whitelist”
Scary stuff as hackers exploit Salt vulnerability in attempt to mine cryptocurrency on breached blogging platform’s servers.
Continue reading Ghost blogging platform suffers security breach
Security researchers say that they are seeing cybercriminals deploying Google’s reCAPTCHA anti-bot tool in an effort to avoid early detection of their malicious campaigns.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Cybercriminals are using Google reCAPTCHA to hide their phishing attacks
I doubt any of us would claim to be fans of CAPTCHA – the puzzles that a website asks you to complete to prove if you’re a human being or not. Unscrambling a distorted graphic to try to read the letters jumbled within, or select only the im… Continue reading Cybercriminals are using Google reCAPTCHA to hide their phishing attacks
Security researchers are warning of a new mobile banking trojan that steals details from over 200 financial apps and intercepts SMS messages to bypass two-factor authentication mechanisms.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Newly-discovered Android malware steals banking passwords and 2FA codes
Journalists spying on their rivals, the NHS rejects Apple and Google’s approach to Coronavirus-tracing, and universities are hit by an old-fashioned sexy lady attack.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning… Continue reading Smashing Security #176: Hacking hacks and university attacks
Even if you can’t pay the ransom and don’t have a backup, don’t destroy your garbled data believing that you’ll never be able to recover it. Maybe one day someone will build a tool that can do a job, or a ransomware gang will h… Continue reading Shade ransomware calls it a day, 750,000 decryption keys released
A critical vulnerability has been patched in the Microsoft Teams work collaboration platform after security researchers discovered a way in which hackers could compromise accounts and steal data with a seemingly harmless .GIF image.
Read more in my art… Continue reading A GIF image could have let hackers hijack Microsoft Teams at your firm
A critical vulnerability has been patched in the Microsoft Teams work collaboration platform after security researchers discovered a way in which hackers could compromise accounts and steal data with something as seemingly harmless as an animated … Continue reading A GIF Image Could Have Let Hackers Hijack Microsoft Teams at Your Firm