Collaborate Disseminate
A database of 70,000 offender and incident logs was only supposed to be accessible internally within UK hardware store B&Q, but was instead exposed for anyone to access – no password required.
So you’d expect B&Q to fix this pretty quickly afte… Continue reading B&Q data leak exposes information on 70,000 thefts from its stores, including names of suspected offenders
Firms are being warned about a threat which evolves traditional business email compromise scams into a whole new way of extracting money from unwary companies.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Business payroll compromise – a new way for criminals to steal from your company
Firms are being warned about a threat which evolves traditional business email compromise scams into a whole new way of extracting money from unwary companies.
The post Business Payroll Compromise – a New Way for Criminals to Steal from Your Compa… Continue reading Business Payroll Compromise – a New Way for Criminals to Steal from Your Company
Security researchers are warning of a new wave of phishing emails which are using an unusual disguise in their attempt to both bypass scanners at email gateways and dupe unsuspecting users.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Continue reading Passwords at risk for users who fall for Eileen’s cousin’s voicemail
Security researchers are warning of a new wave of phishing emails which are using an unusual disguise in their attempt to both bypass scanners at email gateways and dupe unsuspecting users.
The post Passwords at risk for users who fall for voicemail ph… Continue reading Passwords at risk for users who fall for voicemail phishing emails
A California family has described the ‘sheer terror’ it experienced after its smart security camera began broadcasting a bogus warning that three North Korean missiles were heading to the United States.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender BOX bl… Continue reading 8-year-old ‘scared to death’ after hacked Nest security camera warns of missile attack
Business email compromise evolves to target your company’s payroll, how the world’s largest gold coin was stolen from a Berlin museum, and are internet giants feeling the heat yet over data security?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest ed… Continue reading Smashing Security #112: Payroll scams, gold coin heists, web giants spanked
The administrators of the PEAR package manager website have taken the site offline, having discovered that hackers breached the site, and apparently planted malicious code into the software.
Continue reading Poisoned PEAR. PHP extension repository download infected for up to six months
2SV combined with a unique password makes it harder for a hacker to see what you’re doing in your home.
Continue reading Got a Nest security camera? Enable two-step verification now
Twitter has owned up to a privacy goof that exposed some Android users’ private tweets.
Continue reading Twitter exposed some Android users’ protected tweets, and didn’t notice for over four years