Collaborate Disseminate
If Everton Football Club’s Twitter account was really hacked to say it was signing Everton Soares then it needs to look at hardening its defence.
If the hack occurred at all, of course.
Continue reading Did Everton sign Everton? Twitter hack blamed for soccer sign-up screwup
With sad predictability cybercriminals are exploiting the Coronavirus outbreak that occurred in Wuhan, mainland China, and is now causing new infections around the world.
Continue reading Coronavirus – hackers exploit fear of infection to spread malware
The beleaguered company, hit by the REvil ransomware on New Year’s Eve, has not yet been able to restore all of its online services.
Continue reading Travelex hobbles back online, one month after ransomware hit it hard
Microsoft is inviting gamers, security researchers, and technologists to pit their wits against the Xbox network in the search for security vulnerabilities.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading $20,000 up for grabs in Xbox Live security hole hunt
Microsoft is inviting gamers, security researchers, and technologists to pit their wits against the Xbox network in the search for security vulnerabilities. With a newly-announced bug bounty, Microsoft is inviting bug hunters to responsibly disclose bu… Continue reading $20,000 up for grabs in Xbox Live security hole hunt
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) have arrested a total of six men as part of an investigation into the hack of a Maltese bank in February 2019.
Continue reading €13 million Maltese bank cyber-heist – six men arrested in UK
Sonos’s customer support team tried to make grumpy customers happier by telling them their emails would take a little longer than normal to answer.
But boy oh boy, they only made things worse.
Continue reading Sonos goofs again – this time revealing customers’ email addresses in Cc: blunder
New research has shone on a light on what appears to be a shocking lack of security at the world’s airports.
Boffins at ImmuniWeb took a look at 100 of the world’s largest airports, and only found three that passed with flying colours for t… Continue reading 97% of airports showing signs of weak cybersecurity
“Please delete the email we just sent you without opening or reading…”
Yeah, like that’s going to work…
Continue reading The autofill email goof that exposed vulnerable students and cost the University of East Anglia £140,000
ProtonMail is the second encrypted email provider in the last week to find itself blocked from its Russian users, after authorities in the country said threats had been spammed out claiming that bombs had been planted in public places.
Read more in my … Continue reading ProtonMail and StartMail blocked as Russia hunts for bomb threat spammers