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Popular password manager LastPass says that it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome and Opera browser extensions that could have potentially seen an attacker steal the username and password previously filled-in by the software.
Continue reading LastPass users automatically updated to fix security vulnerability in browser extension
Apple’s furious with Google over iPhone hacking attacks against Uyghur Muslims in China, DNS-over-HTTPS is good for privacy but makes ISPs angry, and concern over digital assistants listening to our private moments continues to rise.
All this and… Continue reading Smashing Security #145: Apple and Google willy wave while home assistants spy – DoH!
Apple’s furious with Google over iPhone hacking attacks against Uyghur Muslims in China, DNS-over-HTTPS is good for privacy but makes ISPs angry, and concern over digital assistants listening to our private moments continues to rise.
All this and… Continue reading Smashing Security #145: Apple and Google willy wave while home assistants spy – DoH!
Toyota Boshoku, a seating and interiors supplier for Toyota cars, has revealed that it was tricked into moving a large amount of money into a bank account controlled by scammers.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Toyota parts supplier loses $37 million in email scam
Toyota Boshoku, a seating and interiors supplier for Toyota cars, has revealed that it was tricked into moving a large amount of money into a bank account controlled by scammers.
The post Toyota Parts Supplier Loses $37 Million in Email Scam appeared f… Continue reading Toyota Parts Supplier Loses $37 Million in Email Scam
Law enforcement agencies around the world have arrested a total of 281 people suspected of being behind a spate of Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams that have stolen millions of dollars from businesses and individuals.
Continue reading Operation reWired: 281 suspected email scammers arrested around the world
Uou can imagine the pain that was caused to pub quiz cheats and students writing essays this weekend when crowd-sourced internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular websites, was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack.
… Continue reading Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic targeted by DDoS attacks
Imagine a world without Wikipedia. Do you even remember what it was like when you had to use your memory to recall the order of James Bond films, guess how old Tina Turner is, or try to say with any certainty with what country France has its longest la… Continue reading Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic targeted by DDoS attacks
Although it may have cost Texas more to recover from the ransomware attack than paying the ransom, in the long term a refusal to pay extortionists will help to discourage future attacks.
Continue reading Hackers who hit Texas with ransomware attack demanded $2.5 million, got nothing
A security researcher stumbled across an exposed server on the internet, containing a total of more than 419 million records related to Facebook users.
No password protection was in place – meaning the treasure trove of phone numbers was availabl… Continue reading Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers found lying around on the internet