Collaborate Disseminate
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
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. Many users of “Family Locator”, an iOS app… Continue reading Popular family tracking app exposed real-time location data onto the internet – no password required
Stretching back as far as 2012, Facebook has been storing the passwords of hundreds of millions of users unencrypted, in plaintext.
And those passwords were searchable by Facebook staff…
Continue reading Some 2000 Facebook staff had access to millions of Facebook users’ passwords… stored in plaintext
Even the most tech savvy companies in the world can fall for business email compromise.
A Lithuanian man has this week pleaded guilty to tricking Google and Facebook into transferring over $100 million into a bank account under his control, after posin… Continue reading Google and Facebook scammed out of $123 million by man posing as hardware vendor
Even the most tech savvy companies in the world can fall for business email compromise.
A Lithuanian man has this week pleaded guilty to tricking Google and Facebook into transferring over $100 million into a bank account under his control after posing… Continue reading Google and Facebook scammed out of $123 million by man posing as hardware vendor
Online drug dealers get busted due to poor OPSEC! People are still failing to wipe their USB sticks properly! A potential presidential candidate is outed as a former hacker! Flat Earthers! Pi! Empathy!
All this and much more is discussed in the latest … Continue reading Smashing Security #120: Silk Road with Deliveroo
You can’t help but get the feeling that this was a highly-organised extortion attempt against Norsk Hydro.
Continue reading Hydro working hard to recover following ransomware attack
Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium, says that it is battling an “extensive cyber-attack” that first hit its systems on Monday evening and then escalated overnight.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Aluminium plants hit by cyber-attack, global company turns to manual operations
Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium, says that it is battling an “extensive cyber-attack” that first hit its systems on Monday evening and then escalated overnight. Norsk Hydro, often just referred to as Hyd… Continue reading Aluminium plants hit by cyber-attack, global company turns to manual operations
A new study has closely examined whether 250 security products for Android smartphones are capable of protecting users at all.
The results are in… and disturbing.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Google Play is flooded with hundreds of unsafe Android anti-virus products