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Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million in a FTC settlement following its 2017 data breach.
Continue reading 700 million reasons for Equifax to remember to patch its vulnerable IT systems in future
A man, who posed as an Apple customer support representative for three years, has been sentenced to federal prison after breaking into the accounts of rappers, as well as NBA and NFL players.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading iCloud account hacker jailed for three years after preying on rappers and sports celebrities
A man, who posed as an Apple customer support representative, has been sentenced to three years and one month in a federal prison after breaking into the accounts of rappers, as well as NBA and NFL players. Kwamaine Jerell Ford’s fraudulent schem… Continue reading iCloud account hacker jailed for three years after preying on rappers and sports celebrities
Late on Friday night, some rather out-of-character tweets seemed to be coming out of New Scotland Yard.
The Twitter account of London’s Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) broadcast to its more than one million followers a series of bizarre and so… Continue reading No, the Met Police wasn’t hacked. But its Twitter account and website were hijacked
Slack would have been wiser – in an abundance of caution – to reset all of its users’ passwords back in March 2015.
After all, leaving it until four years later looks a little bit… slack.
Continue reading Slack response. Passwords reset four years after data breach
Two years after the WannaCry ransomware outbreak shone a light on the computer security of the the UK’s National Health Service, and five years after Microsoft said it would no longer release patches for Windows XP, the NHS still has 2300 PCs running t… Continue reading Thousands of NHS computers are still running Windows XP from beyond the grave
Two years after the WannaCry ransomware outbreak shone a light on the computer security of the UK’s National Health Service, and five years after Microsoft said it would no longer release patches for Windows XP, the NHS still … Continue reading Thousands of NHS computers are still running Windows XP from beyond the grave
Police in Bulgaria have arrested a 20-year-old man after a hack against the Bulgarian tax authority, known as the National Revenue Agency (NRA), which saw data on every single adult living in Bulgaria stolen, and offered to the media.
Continue reading Security researcher arrested after data on every adult in Bulgaria hacked from government site
Erection your honour! Lawyers find themselves behind bars after they make porn movies in an attempt to scam internet users, boffins in Israel detail a way to steal data from an air-gapped computer, and Instagram coughs up $30,000 after a researcher fin… Continue reading Smashing Security #137: Porn trolling lawyers, Insta hacking, and Ctrl-Alt-LED
RingCentral and other video conferencing apps share the same flaws as those revealed in Zoom earlier this month, including the ability to hijack users’ webcams without their permission.
Apple pushes out further silent updates to protect users fro… Continue reading Apple pushes out another silent update to address flaws in RingCentral and other video conferencing apps