Collaborate Disseminate
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
A new study conducted by AV-Comparatives, a well-respected independent testing agency, has closely examined whether 250 security products for Android smartphones are capable of protecting users at all. The test evaluated whether Android anti-virus prod… Continue reading Google Play is flooded with hundreds of unsafe anti-virus products
A new survey has revealed that the majority of Brits are blissfully unaware that next month the UK Government will be requiring porn websites to verify that their users have obtained a “porn passport.”
Continue reading 53% of Britain’s most frequent porn watchers aren’t aware that they’re about to be blocked
You cannot trust the likes of Myspace to look after your data securely. Use internet services to archive your content if you wish, but you’d be wise to have your own backup too.
Continue reading MySpace has lost all the music users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
A hacker knocked millions off the listed price of an incredibly expensive home, and its owners aren’t at all happy…
Continue reading Zillow sued for $60 million after mansion listing hijacked