La Liga fined €250,000 after Android app spied on football fans

The Spanish football league La Liga has been hit with a fine of 250,000 euros (approximately US $280,000) after its official Android app was found to be sneakily listening to people’s surroundings when soccer matches were being played. According … Continue reading La Liga fined €250,000 after Android app spied on football fans→

Radiohead refuses to pay $150,000 ransom for ‘hacked’ recordings, releases them instead

How do you stop a hacker from making a fortune out of the files they have stolen from you? Files that thousands of people are probably desperate to own?
Simple. You make the files readily available to anyone on the internet to access.
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Email blackmailer threatens to have your website blocked forever

If it wasn’t bad enough extortionists threatening to release sex videos of you, or claiming you were a member of an adultery website, or that your name has been mentioned as part of an investigation into an international child abuse ring, now bla… Continue reading Email blackmailer threatens to have your website blocked forever→

BlueKeep – everyone agrees, you should patch PCs running legacy versions of Windows

I have this horrible feeling that the only way we’re going to wake the world up to the need to patch their ageing versions of Windows against the BlueKeep vulnerability is to wait until a malicious worm begins to spread around the world.
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Cryptocurrency wallet GateHub hacked, nearly $10 million worth of Ripple (XRP) stolen

Cryptocurrency wallet service GateHub has warned that over 100 customers have had their ledger wallets hacked and funds stolen.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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