Collaborate Disseminate
A large number of Reddit users are being told that they will have to reset their passwords in order to regain access to their accounts following what the site is calling a “security concern.”
The lockout has occurred as Reddit’s security team investiga… Continue reading Reddit users locked out of accounts after “security concern”
Twitter and the not-so-ethical hacking of celebrity accounts, study discovers how you can pay someone to quit Facebook for a year, and the millions of dollars you can make from uncovering software vulnerabilities.
All this and much more is discussed i… Continue reading Smashing Security #110: What? You can get paid to leave Facebook?
Modlishka may help raise awareness of the danger of reverse proxy phishing attacks, but it’s easy to imagine that many criminals will be tempted to put it to malicious use.
Continue reading Automated phishing attack tool bypasses 2FA protection
Research claims Facebook users are prepared to give up the social network for a year… if paid over $1000.
Continue reading Being paid to quit Facebook
Will anyone come up with a zero-day remote exploitation of iOS 12.x without user interaction?
The sad truth is that we may never know for sure… but intelligence agencies might.
Continue reading Earn $2,000,000 by remotely jailbreaking an iPhone
Just before Christmas, hackers managed to break into a database belonging to a popular online game and steal the details of over seven million players.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Town of Salem hack exposes details of 7.6 million gamers
Just before Christmas, hackers managed to break into a database belonging to a popular online game and steal the details of over seven million players. BlankMediaGames, makers of the browser-based game “Town of Salem”, has sent an email to … Continue reading Town of Salem hack exposes details of 7.6 million gamers
The private communications, emails, contact details, mobile phone numbers, memos, and financial information of hundreds of politicians have been published online.
Continue reading German politicians suffer massive hack of personal details and private communications
TheHackerGiraffe, the hacker who breached innocent users’ unsecured printers, Google Chromecast streaming devices, and smart TVs to promote the PewDiePie YouTube channel, has announced his retirement.
Continue reading TheHackerGiraffe says he’s retired from hacking smart TVs to promote PewDiePie
The website of Luas, the tram system operating in Ireland’s capital city of Dublin, has been taken offline this morning after hackers defaced the site and demanded a ransom be paid within five days.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Secu… Continue reading Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tram system, after Luas website defaced