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An investigation claims that the UK’s National Health Service, which was hit hard by the notorious WannaCry worm in 2017, has seen a marked fall in ransomware attacks since. A report published by Comparitech, based upon Freedom of Information req… Continue reading The NHS has suffered only six ransomware attacks since the WannaCry worm, investigation reveals
Should possessing malware be illegal in itself? How did a Russian cryptocurrency exchange millionaire lose his fortune? And what on earth are Amazon Ring doorbell cams up to now?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-wi… Continue reading Smashing Security #163: Russian heists and Ring wrongs
The Japanese government hopes to to avert the travel chaos during the Olympics by getting more than 600,000 staff to work from home for at least two weeks from July 24 2020.
But what about the security of those teleworkers?
Read more in my article on t… Continue reading Teleworking threats in the security spotlight in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics
If you can crack the security of the Titan M chip found on the Google Pixel 3, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 4 smartphones, you could be in for a big reward…
Continue reading Win $1.5 million hacking an Android phone
If the criminals are continuing to make money by infecting Apple Mac computers in this fashion, whatever makes you think that they’ll come up with a more original social engineering trick?
Continue reading 1 in 10 Macs hit by crude malware that poses as Flash Player update, reports Kaspersky
We definitely definitely absolutely won’t ever ever be releasing any more updates for Windows 7, said Microsoft earlier this month.
Now there’s an update on its way to fix a cosmetic bug in how Windows 7 displays users’ desktop wallpa… Continue reading Windows 7 definitely won’t ever receive any more bug fixes (errm… apart from this one for its wallpaper)
Yesterday the social media accounts of at least 16 NFL teams were hijacked by a hacking gang with a history of mischievous attacks.
Continue reading 16 NFL teams have their social media accounts hijacked by OurMine hacking gang
Police in Indonesia, working alongside Interpol, have arrested three men suspected of being part of a gang engaged in Magecart attacks that skimmed payment card information from online shoppers.
Continue reading A Magecart hacking gang may have been caught by police for the first ever time
Microsoft’s workaround for an unpatched vulnerability that is being exploited in targeted attacks by hackers appears to be breaking printers.
Continue reading Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zero-day workaround is breaking printers
There is some egg on the face of Trend Micro after it is revealed their anti-virus software was exploited to steal data from Mitsubishi Electric, but they aren’t the real villains of the story.
Continue reading Trend Micro anti-virus zero-day exploited in attack on Mitsubishi Electric