Collaborate Disseminate
Fitness fanatics are being advised to change their passwords after one of the world’s largest and most popular online fitness stores admitted that it had suffered a security breach that might have exposed customer data. Bodybuilding.com says that… Continue reading Bodybuilders beware! One of the world’s largest online fitness stores hit by security breach
Just another day at Facebook.
Yes, they stole 1.5 million people’s address books without asking permission, but hey they say it was “unintentional” so.…
Continue reading Facebook hoovered up 1.5 million users’ email contacts without permission… “unintentionally”
British investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr gave a passionate speech at the TED conference in Vancouver this week. You should watch it.
Continue reading Facebook’s role in Brexit – and the threat to democracy
Vishwanath Akuthota didn’t make it hard for authorities to prove that he was the person who destroyed $58,000 worth of college equipment using a USB stick.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Man fried over 50 college computers with weaponized USB stick
Vishwanath Akuthota’s USB stick contained an unusually destructive payload.
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The hacker who lived the high life after spreading malware via porn sites, Wipro demonstrates how to turn a cybersecurity crisis into a PR disaster, and why are humans listening in to your Alexa conversations?
All this and much more is discussed in the… Continue reading Smashing Security #124: Poisoned porn ads, the A word, and why why why Wipro?
Don’t want to wait for Microsoft to fix the problem in how Internet Explorer handles .MHT files? Other security researchers come to the rescue.
Continue reading A third-party patch for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability
Recent months seem to have seen a rise in extortion emails, designed to scare users into handing over their money.
Continue reading Extortion emails a go-go
Even if you don’t use Internet Explorer any more, it may still be posing a potential risk by being installed on your Windows PCs.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading It doesn’t matter if you don’t use Internet Explorer, you could still be at risk from this IE zero-day vulnerability
You might think that any security issues with Internet Explorer shouldn’t be much of a problem anymore. After all, most computer users have moved on to more modern alternative browsers like Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge. And e… Continue reading It doesn’t matter if you don’t use Internet Explorer, you could still be at risk from this IE zero-day vulnerability