Collaborate Disseminate
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
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