Collaborate Disseminate
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.
The post Man jailed for using webcam RAT to spy on women in their bedrooms appeare… Continue reading Man jailed for using webcam RAT to spy on women in their bedrooms
We discuss how Microsoft Word helped trap a multi-million dollar fraudster, how Amazon Ring may be recording more than you’re comfortable with, and how teens are flocking to TikTok (and why that might be a problem).
All this and much more is cove… Continue reading Smashing Security #160: SNAFUs! MS Word, Amazon Ring, and TikTok
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, city officials in Las Vegas were alerted that their computer network had suffered a security breach.
If it’s a ransomware attack, it sounds unlikely that they’ll be willing to give in to the extortioni… Continue reading City of Las Vegas wakes up to a cyber attack
For days Travelex’s website has said it was down for “planned maintenance”.
Now it finally admits that the company is struggling with a ransomware outbreak that has disrupted its online services.
Continue reading “Planned maintenance”? Travelex’s masterclass in how not to respond to cyberattack
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It wasn’t a case of “Happy Holidays” for the employees of an Arkanasas-based telemarketing firm after they were told to find new jobs just before Christmas, after failing to recover from a ransomware attack.
Continue reading Company held hostage by ransomware shuts down, tells 300 employees to find new jobs
The world’s largest foreign exchange bureau is still offline today, and the online currency services of other high street banks are disrupted.
Continue reading Travelex still offline after discovering malware on New Year’s Eve, and other banks’ currency services are also affected
A rapping bank worker is accused of stealing from the vault, the devices that can hide your car’s true mileage, and why it may be a case of “No No No” rather than “Ho Ho Ho” when it comes to IoT toys this Christmas.
And as… Continue reading Smashing Security #159: Rap, robbery, and IoT holiday hell
The City of Waco has warned residents that their online payments for water services may have been intercepted by hackers who stole credit card details.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Waco water bill attack just the latest in a wave of Click2Gov breaches
The City of Waco has warned residents that their online payments for water services may have been intercepted by hackers who stole credit card details. The heart of the problem lies in the third-party online payment software that Waco and several other… Continue reading Waco water bill attack just the latest in a wave of Click2Gov breaches