Collaborate Disseminate
Apparently the world’s largest foreign exchance service is making “good progress” following the attack which knocked out its systems two weeks ago.
Move along, nothing to see here.
Continue reading Travelex wants you to know that everything’s going really really well
Lottery operator Camelot says that responding to the hacking attack in 2016 cost it £230,000.
How much did the hacker Anwar Batson make out of it? A mere £5.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Man who hacked National Lottery for just £5 is jailed for nine months
Researchers warn that your cable modem might be vulnerable to hijacking, due to a critical security vulnerability in its Broadcom firmware.
Learn more now.
Continue reading Cable Haunt: Hundreds of millions of cable modems may be vulnerable to hijacking attack
Over the last few days hackers have made multiple attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability found in Citrix technology, used by tens of thousands of businesses worldwide.
Take action to protect your systems now before the exploit hits you in the face.
Continue reading Shitrix: Hackers target unpatched Citrix systems over weekend
Just before the UK’s General Election in December, I recorded an interview with the “Totally Unprepared Politics” podcast.
Thanks to Adill Al-ashgar for inviting me on the show. And don’t worry, although we do touch on some pol… Continue reading Graham Cluley on the Totally Unprepared Politics podcast
It’s not only external hackers who pose a threat to the customer data that your company stores.
Continue reading Amazon Ring employees snooped on users’ security videos
DSG Retail, the parent company of Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, has been fined £500,000 for a hack which lasted from July 2017 to April 2018.
But if its hack had lasted just one month longer, they could have expected a much MUCH larger penalty.
Continue reading Just one month later, the Currys PC World/Dixons Travel hack would have cost them a heck of a lot more
Operation Goldfish Alpha was a six-month effort to secure hacked devices across Southeast Asia.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading Cryptojacked routers reduce by 78% in SE Asia following Operation Goldfish Alpha
A Firefox browser vulnerability that could allow attackers to take control of computers is being exploited in the wild.
Make sure you are running the very latest version of Firefox.
Continue reading Stop everything. Update Firefox now
A British man has been jailed for two years after police caught him using a notorious Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to hijack the webcams of young women, and spy upon them.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Man jailed for using webcam RAT to spy on women in their bedrooms