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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.
The post Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tr… Continue reading Hackers demand ransom from Dublin’s tram system, after Luas website defaced
Just before Christmas I was fortunate enough to be invited onto the “Random but Memorable” podcast, hosted by Matt Davey and Michael Fey of 1Password.
Take a listen.
Continue reading Appearing on the ‘Random but Memorable’ podcast
Here’s something a bit different (and utterly unrelated to computer security).
Continue reading Graham Cluley’s Desert Planet Picks
The “white hat” hacker, who claimed to be part of a group calling itself the “Anonymous Calgary Mindhive”, said it hadn’t been hard for him to hijack control of Gregg’s Nest security camera.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Box blog.
… Continue reading Spooked by a speaking security camera? Polite hacker tells owner how to fix his IoT security
Join us for our special Christmas episode as we tell tales of printer hacking, website defacement, Grinches, and how Google is snooping on your private YouTube videos.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smas… Continue reading Smashing Security #109: Grinches target Amazon and Reddit, stealing Christmas from the poor
At the end of last week Facebook revealed that an API bug had given developers of third-party apps access to the photos of millions of users.
But Facebook didn’t find out about the problem last week. It found out about it in September.
Continue reading Facebook waited months before admitting privacy bug exposed millions of users’ unposted photos
Authorities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are said to be investigating a wave of bogus bomb threats that have been sent to a variety of organisations late on Thursday.
But if the hoaxer thought they were going to make a lot o… Continue reading International email bomb hoax proves to be a spectacular failure
Week after week, month after month, 2018 saw organisations and companies struck by massive and damaging data breaches, putting the personal details of innocent members of the public at risk.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights … Continue reading 2018 – a year of data breaches in review
As 2018 draws to a close, we inevitably take the opportunity to take a look back at the year it has been, and make predictions about what 2019 might bring for cybersecurity.
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Forbes journalist Thomas Brewster wanted to find out just how well a variety of Android phones and a top-of-the-range Apple iPhone would fare against a determined attempt to break facial recognition. And he did that by having a 3D-model printed of his … Continue reading Unlocking Android phones with a 3D-printed head