Collaborate Disseminate
Printers, just like any other IoT-enabled device, need to be secured, and updated with the latest firmware and patches to prevent a successful hacker attack.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX blog.
Continue reading Patch your internet-connected printer! Serious vulnerabilities discovered
One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has revealed that it is being blackmailed to the tune of 300 Bitcoin (approximately US $3.5 million) by someone who is threatening to release some 10,000 sensitive photographs of its customers.
Read m… Continue reading Cryptocurrency exchange Binance offers $290,000 bounty to unmask blackmailer
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has revealed that it is being blackmailed to the tune of 300 Bitcoin (approximately US $3.5 million) by someone who is threatening to release some 10,000 sensitive photographs of its c… Continue reading Cryptocurrency exchange Binance offers $290,000 bounty to unmask blackmailer
Is the PIN you use for your bank card secure? How did one woman get duped into giving a romance scammer $200,000? And Cloudflare and other online services take aim at a vile corner of the internet…
All this and much more is discussed in the lates… Continue reading Smashing Security #140: Love, PINs, and 8chan
34-year-old Muhammad Fahd has been charged for his part in a criminal scheme that is said to have cost AT&T millions of dollars.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading AT&T workers bribed to install malware on company network and unlock iPhones
I can appreciate that iPhone users may want to unlock their devices to use them with a different carrier. What is perhaps less easy to sympathise with is the thought that it’s acceptable to hack the network of major telecoms company in order to d… Continue reading AT&T workers bribed to install malware on company network and unlock iPhones
Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a way of exploiting a flaw in Intel chips that could be used to steal passwords and encryption keys.
Continue reading SWAPGS attack: The Spectre-like flaw affecting Intel CPUs
“Smashing Security” is a weekly podcast where I, Carole Theriault, and a special guest discuss some of the quirky stories from the last week’s cybersecurity news headlines, and anything else that takes our fancy.
Continue reading You really should listen to the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast
Mobile-only bank Mozo has apologised for a gaffe which left the PINs of a subset of its customers exposed to its internal engineers.
Continue reading 500,000 Monzo banking customers told to change their PINs
The tech press is full of stories about “a new ransomware strain” called GermanWiper, that has hit German businesses hard in the last week.
But the reality is that GermanWiper is much worse than ransomware.
Continue reading GermanWiper isn’t ransomware. It’s worse than that