Collaborate Disseminate
Users have shared the private photos stored in their email and social networks with Ever – not realising that they were being used to feed a facial recognition system.
Continue reading Ever app users uploaded billions of photos, unaware they were being used to build a facial recognition system
For the second time in a year, Baltimore city government computers have been infected by ransomware. Malicious hackers are demanding that a ransom is paid for the safe recovery of encrypted files on affected computers and servers.
Read more in my arti… Continue reading Robbinhood ransomware attack brings down parts of City of Baltimore’s computer network
For the second time in a year, Baltimore city government computers have been infected by ransomware. Malicious hackers are demanding that a ransom is paid for the safe recovery of encrypted files on affected computers and servers.
The post RobbinHood … Continue reading RobbinHood ransomware attack brings down parts of City of Baltimore’s computer network
Israel strikes back at Hamas’s hacking HQ, a new sextortion email comes with a twist, and Carole saves the world with some help from hacked Roomba vacuum cleaners.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning … Continue reading Smashing Security #127: I do love the Dutch
Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, says that it has suffered a security breach that saw hackers steal more than $40 million worth of Bitcoin.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading $40 million worth of Bitcoin stolen from Binance cryptocurrency exchange
Binance, one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, says that it has suffered a security breach that saw hackers steal more than $40 million worth of Bitcoin. A statement issued by the company says that it discovered t… Continue reading $40 million worth of Bitcoin stolen from Binance cryptocurrency exchange
Wolters Kluwer, the company behind cloud accounting software CCH, has confirmed that its service was knocked offline after malware was discovered on its systems.
Continue reading Malware takes Wolters Kluwer CCH cloud accounting service offline
An email arrived purporting to be from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It claimed that unless I confirmed I had given my correct contact information for a domain’s WHOIS record, a website I administer could be suspended.
Continue reading An attempt to phish my Amazon Web Services account
Have you ever been curious just how much vetting Facebook does before it accepts cash for an ad or a sponsored post?
Judging by what’s popping up in some users’ newsfeeds, the answer is not that much.
Continue reading Facebook sponsored posts selling access to hacked PayPal accounts
Birth certificates, photographs, names, email addresses, credit card details, social security numbers. All to be found on used hard drives for sale on eBay.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Sensitive data can lurk on second-hand hard drives