Collaborate Disseminate
You may have missed it amongst the many news reports of the denial-of-service attacks troubling Labour, but that wasn’t the only reason the UK political party made the cybersecurity headlines this week.
Continue reading Donation details “leak” from the Labour Party website
With a drama-filled general election campaign underway in the United Kingdom, the Labour Party says that its systems suffered a “sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack.”
Continue reading That “sophisticated” Labour cyber-attack – don’t panic
Currently BlueKeep attacks have been causing computers to crash, and drawing attention to themselves.
But that may be about to change…
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading BlueKeep: What you need to know
What is BlueKeep? BlueKeep is the name that has been given to a security vulnerability that was discovered earlier this year in some versions of Microsoft Windows’ implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The vulnerability was describ… Continue reading BlueKeep: What you Need to Know
It’s been almost 25 years since macro malware first reared its head, and it would be nice to think that the defences Microsoft has built into its Office suite in the years since would do a half-decent job of stemming the threat.
Unfortunately, it seems… Continue reading Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros
It’s been almost 25 years since macro malware first reared its head, and it would be nice to think that the defences Microsoft has built into its Office suite in the years since would do a half-decent job of stemming the threat. Unfortunately, it… Continue reading Mac users warned that disabling all Office macros doesn’t actually disable all Office macros
The cybercrime lovebirds who hijacked Washington DC’s CCTV cameras in the run-up to Donald Trump’s inauguration, the truffle-snuffling bankers at the centre of an insider-trading scandal, and the hackers that Uber paid hush money to hide a … Continue reading Smashing Security #153: Cybercrime doesn’t pay (but Uber does)
Nikkei, one of the largest media companies in Japan, with an empire spanning broadcasting, digital media, magazines, and newspapers such as the Financial Times, says that its US subsidiary, Nikkei America, has been scammed out of $29 million.
Read more… Continue reading Nikkei worker tricked into transferring $29 million into scammer’s bank account
Nikkei, one of the largest media companies in Japan, with an empire spanning broadcasting, digital media, magazines, and newspapers such as the Financial Times, says that its US subsidiary, Nikkei America, has been scammed out of $29 million. In a pres… Continue reading Nikkei worker tricked into transferring $29 million into scammer’s bank account
The BlueKeep vulnerability, discovered by the UK’s NCSC, is being exploited at scale in an attempt to install a cryptocurrency minder on unpatched Windows PCs.
Continue reading After months of worry, BlueKeep vulnerability is now being exploited in mass-hacking campaign