Collaborate Disseminate
Barbara Corcoran, one of the business moguls who head up the judging team on US TV’s “Shark Tank” investment show, has lost nearly $400,000 to an email scammer. According to media reports, a scammer – posing as CorcoranR… Continue reading “Shark Tank” TV star loses almost $400,000 in Business Email Compromise scam
Vulnerability-reporting platform HackerOne has come clean about a critical security flaw on its own website that could have been used to expose the email addresses of users.
Continue reading HackerOne rewards bughunter who found critical security hole in… HackerOne
Scammers from Africa are preying on US businesses, a drug dealer makes a mistake when hiding his Bitcoin fortune, and the Coronavirus pandemic is causing scams to soar and raising questions about facial recognition.
All this and much more is discussed … Continue reading Smashing Security #167: Coronavirus scams and an exaggerated lion
Well done on training your staff not to wire money into the accounts of criminal fraudsters. Unfortunately they’re sending the money by check instead.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Exaggerated Lion and Business Email Compromise – Don’t send that check!
More and more businesses are falling victim to Business Email Compromise, where scammers fool companies into transferring money into the bank accounts of criminals.
The post Exaggerated Lion and Business Email Compromise – Don’t Send That Check! a… Continue reading Exaggerated Lion and Business Email Compromise – Don’t Send That Check!
Google is warning users that ToTok is unsafe. ToTok says that users shouldn’t trust Google’s warning…
Continue reading ToTok chat app tells users to ignore Google’s spyware warning
How to stop dick pics on Twitter, and a new way bad guys are extorting money from websites earning cash from Google ads.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer … Continue reading Smashing Security #166: What the Dickens! Ad ban thank you scam
Over 10 million people who have stayed at MGM Resorts hotels – including Twitter boss Jack Dorsey and pop idol Justin Bieber – have had their personal details posted online by hackers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading MGM Resorts hacked: 10.6 million guests have their personal data exposed on hacking forum
Samsung has apologised after it accidentally sent a bizarre notification to smartphone owners’ devices.
Continue reading Samsung freaks out smartphone owners with mysterious ‘1’ notification
Over 10 million people who have stayed at MGM Resorts hotels – including Twitter boss Jack Dorsey and pop idol Justin Bieber – have had their personal details posted online by hackers. The security breach, publicised by ZDNet and security r… Continue reading MGM Resorts hacked: 10.6 million guests have their personal data exposed on hacking forum