Collaborate Disseminate
Someone has taken a copy of the shooter’s Word document and weaponised it to download malicious code from the internet.
Continue reading New Zealand shooter’s manifesto used to spread disk-wiping malware
Office Depot, and its partner Support.com, have been fined $35 million for using the PC Health Check tune-up service to dupe people into buying unnecessary computer repair and technical services.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Office Depot fined millions for tricking customers into believing their PCs were infected with malware
What does the average person do when their computer starts behaving oddly? If their PC is getting slower, or they’re being pestered with an excessive number of pop-ups? The average user – and you, dear reader, are not a typical user because… Continue reading Office Depot fined millions for tricking customers into believing their PCs were infected with malware
An app leaking private conversations and intimate photographs is ignoring requests to fix the problem, hackers poison a security update sent to ASUS PCs, and how to protect your privacy in motel rooms.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest … Continue reading Smashing Security #121: Hijacked motel rooms, ASUS PCs, and leaky apps
Taiwan-based technology giant Asus is advising concerned customers to run a newly-created diagnostic tool on their Windows computers after hackers pushed out malware to what some security researchers have estimated to be as many as one million PCs usin… Continue reading Asus pushes out urgent security update after its own automatic Live Update tool was hacked
Taiwan-based technology giant ASUS is advising concerned customers to run a newly-created diagnostic tool on their Windows computers after hackers pushed out malware to what some security researchers have estimated to be as many as one million PCs usin… Continue reading ASUS pushes out urgent security update after attackers hacked its automatic Live Update tool
Twitter users have been warned not to fall for a prank that claimed their user interface would change colour if they told the service they were born in 2007, after a wave of users locked themselves out of their accounts for being underage.
Continue reading A PSA for twits on Twitter
Hundreds of thousands of Asus PCs may have been infected with malware installed by Asus’s own automatic Live Update tool.
Continue reading Hackers poison Asus software updates, may have infected one million PCs
Multinational law firm was hit in the crossfire as Russia-backed ransomware spread, and Hiscox is reportedly declining to pay up citing an “act of war”.
Continue reading DLA Piper and its insurers clash over multi-million NotPetya payout
More than 238,000 individuals users have had their family’s real-time location exposed for weeks on end after an app developer left sensitive data exposed on the internet, without a password.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Popular family tracking app exposed real-time location data onto the internet – no password required