Collaborate Disseminate
Coinmama, a site that is supposed to “make it fast, safe and fun” to buy Bitcoins and Etherium with a credit card, has suffered a data breach that has resulted in almost half a million customers having their personal details breached. Coinm… Continue reading 450,000 usernames and passwords stolen from Coinmama cryptocurrency broker
Was iPad’s Lithium-ion battery to blame for apartment fire that killed 64-year-old man two years ago?
Continue reading Apple sued over death blamed on faulty iPad battery
An American man is bringing a class action against Apple, complaining that two-factor authentication (2FA) on an iPhone or Mac takes too much time.
Continue reading Apple sued because two-factor authentication… oh, I give up
FBI agents have arrested a 20-year-old man alleged to have been part of a hacking gang which not only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but also launched a wave of chilling bomb and shooting threats against thousands of schools in … Continue reading Hacker arrested for wave of fake bomb and shooting threats against schools
A 20-year-old man alleged to have been part of a hacking gang which not only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but also launched a wave of bomb and shooting threats against thousands of schools in the United States and United Kingd… Continue reading Hacker arrested for wave of fake bomb and shooting threats against schools
Security researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible to remotely hijack control of popular electric scooters, forcing them to dangerously brake suddenly or accelerate.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Box blog.
Continue reading Electric scooters can be hijacked remotely – no password required
Is two factor authentication such a pain in the rear end that it’s costing the economy millions? Do you feel safe having a Google Nest in your home? And don’t get caught by a catfisher this Valentine’s Day.
All this and much more is discussed in the la… Continue reading Smashing Security #115: Love, Nests, and is 2FA destroying the world?
There will be many angry customers of VFEmail who will be distraught at the thought that years’ worth of irreplaceable personal and business correspondence may have been wiped out. It’s understandable that some might turn their fury towards VFEmail.
Bu… Continue reading VFEmail suffers ‘catastrophic’ attack, as hacker wipes email service’s primary and backup data
A popular browser extension has been removed by Google from the Chrome Web Store after it started spamming users with irritating pop-up advertisements.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Automatic 4K/HD for YouTube extension pulled from Chrome Store for pop-up ad abuse
A popular browser extension has been removed by Google from the Chrome Web Store after it started spamming users with irritating pop-up advertisements. The “Automatic 4K/HD for Youtube” extension, used by over 4 million Chrome users to forc… Continue reading Automatic 4K/HD for Youtube extension pulled from Chrome Store for pop-up ad abuse