Collaborate Disseminate
The Conservative Party press office posed as an independent fact-checking service on Twitter, abusing its verified status in an attempt to fool British voters.
I find it hard to see it any other way…
Continue reading Twitter warns verified users against attempts to mislead public after Conservative factcheckUK stunt
British businessman Arron Banks, one of the self-styled “Bad Boys of Brexit” and a leading figure of the Leave.EU campaign, has had his Twitter account hacked.
Continue reading Bad boy of Brexit Arron Banks hacked, private Twitter messages leaked
A 21-year-old man who made half a million dollars running DDoS-for-hire services has been sentenced to prison for 13 months.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Man who made $542,925 renting out DDoS services sentenced to prison
A 21-year-old man who made half a million dollars running DDoS-for-hire services has been sentenced to prison for 13 months. Between August 2015 to November 2017 Sergiy P. Usatyuk of Orland Park, Illinois, and a co-conspirator, operated a number of … Continue reading Man who made $542,925 renting out DDoS services sentenced to prison
Ransomware hit Louisiana’s state government hard yesterday, shutting down multiple websites and email systems after it fell victim for the second time in just a few months to a ransomware attack.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of S… Continue reading Ransomware strikes again in the state of Louisiana
Ransomware hit Louisiana’s state government hard yesterday, shutting down multiple websites and email systems after it fell victim for the second time in just a few months to a ransomware attack.
The post Ransomware Strikes Again in the State of Louisi… Continue reading Ransomware Strikes Again in the State of Louisiana
I’m off to Dublin this week to join the galaxy of security superstars speaking at IRISSCON 2019. Find out more about the conference and see you there!
Continue reading Come see me speak at IRISSCON in Dublin this week about cybercriminals
Yet another company has been found woefully lacking when it comes to securing consumers’ data.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Only after running out of hard disk space did firm realise hacker had stolen one million users’ details
The British Home Office’s app for EU citizens applying to live and work in the UK post-Brexit “could allow hackers to steal phone numbers, addresses and passport details.”
But is this something worth losing any sleep over?
Continue reading About the “easy to hack” EU Exit: ID Document Check app
The UK’s Labour Party kicks off its election campaign with claims that it has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack, Apple’s credit card is accused of being sexist, and what is Google up to with Project Nightingale?
All this and much more i… Continue reading Smashing Security #154: A buttock of biometrics